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Critical Ethnic Studies Association

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We are pleased to share the draft schedule for #CESA2018UBC! https://t.co/RLQ2gWJz6u

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from #CESA2018UBC. we also hope to post videos of the plenaries shortly, stay tuned!

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Check out our newest blog post!

We just now published Maile Arvin's awesome plenary given at the Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference this year where she asks:

"Can we stop asking each other to do so much work?"

https://t.co/tcnG0PlxBq

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Some takeaways from #CESA2018UBC:

1) Keep reading, singing, listening, wandering,
2) Take a breath,
3) Look for the love.

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For those not in attendance, @lizault and @yao_christine among others did excellent jobs at live tweeting the plenaries. They were also video recorded and will be shared as soon as available. #CESA2018UBC

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Our deepest gratitude to everyone who made #CESA2018UBC happen. We learned so much from all of you and from this work. We wish you all rest and joy as you recover and look forward to caring for the connections we made these past few days.

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#CESA2018UBC Nason: didn’t always have the language to speak outside the individual experience so early friendship was full of excited discussion and debate

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#CESA2018UBC Nason now speaking about Day’s book Alien Capital as well as their friendship and a 2005 visit to the Autry and joking about the white narratives of conquest and opportunity denied

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#CESA2018UBC Nason: sharing story about Indigenous mother’s love and story about dear friendship with graduate school colleague Iyko Day

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#CESA2018UBC Dory Nason: speaking as Indigenous feminist and addressing friendship and kinship, seeking refuge, her great great grandmother

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Silva: What blacklight makes visible re cotton and copper are that they are commodities enabled by slave labor and dispossession of Native land; implicated in the copper in the MacBook wrote this on #CESA2018UBC

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#CESA2018UBC Silva: Marx- labor-power must be seen as property, be protected by letting it be used only temporarily

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#cesa2018ubc Silva: reading of Marx’s Capital Vol. 1, Chp. 7: self determination and transparency is presupposed. In blacklight, raw material becomes luminous

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Silva: Instead of transparency blacklight is a perfect method, black feminist device for critiques of global capital #cesa2018ubc

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#cesa2018ubc Denise Ferreira da Silva now speaking on “Blacklight,” on copper and commodity, on what shines, on how without black light makes things emanate or shine

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#cesa2018ubc just buy Mercedes Eng’s book now, the room is deeply moved!

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#cesa2018ubc (with apologies for the paraphrasing of lovely poetry) Eng: Carol, a ghost mama, dances for Indigenous peoples growing in population, for the babies… a ghost mama whispering into the fertile red ground, seeds for the revolution

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#cesa2018ubc Mercedes Eng: the way the govt multiculturalizes the prison industrial complex is to fill prisons with Indigenous people and people of color, including a woman named Carol, who in the book and her dreams lives

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#cesa2018ubc Mercedes Eng (@innercitykitty) will be reading from her book The Prison Industrial Complex Explodes https://t.co/r5YnqGsHBy

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#CESA2018UBC after an evacuation for a mistakenly pulled fire alarm, our third plenary is getting started

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The coffee is here! #CESA2018UBC