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The Agenda (February 2023): Newsletter for the Lincoln LGBTQ+ Resource Center
Get PDFThe quarterly newsletter from the Lincoln LGBTQ+ Resource Center at Gonzaga
Building Stronger Communities Through Sustained Activism
No full textWhen it comes to human rights and social justice activism in the United States, it’s hard to find a cause in which Helen Zia hasn’t been directly involved.
An award-winning journalist and author, Zia is a second-generation Chinese-American and through her decades-long career has worked on issues ranging from Asian-American civil rights to LGBTQ+ issues to labor rights and more.
On April 17th, 2023, Zia shared stories from her lifetime of activism, sustaining social movements for the long term, and challenging the model-minority myth in a presentation titled “Building Stronger Communities Through Sustained Activism.”
The event, held Gonzaga University’s Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at 6 p.m., was free and open to the public, and was sponsored by GU’s Asian American Union, Filipino American Student Union, the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies department, and the Office of the President. This is the second time Zia has shared her thoughts and perspectives with the Gonzaga community as she presented via a Zoom event in 2021.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Zia was part of Princeton University’s first coeducational graduating class. She started medical school, but quit soon thereafter to move to Detroit to work as an autoworker, construction laborer and community organizer. She found a passion for journalism roughly at the same time a local Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, was killed in a racially-motivated assault. Her coverage drew attention to the ways that Asian Americans are targeted.
Zia went on to become executive editor of Ms. magazine and a regular contributor to outlets ranging from The New York Times to The Nation to The Advocate. Her first book, “Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People,” was published in 2000, and her most recent book, 2019’s “Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of Those Who Fled Mao’s Revolution,” was named one of NPR’s best books of the year
NOW 2023-03 March
No full textCorpus of News on the Web data for March 2023.
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A Manifesto for Inventing Hope
No full textWaning democracy, climate derangement, public health crises, rising white supremacist regimes, and ongoing threats to policies and practices that safeguard human (and more-than-human) rights all make up a short list of what contemporary college students face in everyday life. Encountering students in campus contexts, it has become quite clear that they carry a level of emotional weight that culminates in a sense of despondence and existential dread. For students already on and at the margins of higher education, the burden is even greater. Given that our Jesuit orientation emphasizes the active promotion of social justice, the common good, care for the planet, and preference for the poor and marginalized, we discuss injustice at each turn, in depth, and with the hope that critical examination of meaning, power, and identity might inspire student engagement, activism, and transformation. Yet, these critical conversations take an emotional toll. Thus, we find ourselves asking: how does our current critical pedagogical attitude also foster hope? As our students confront complex reactions and rational anxieties to violence, neglect, destruction, and hatred, we are tasked with improving our students’ relationship to hope. For educators, the question becomes: How do we respond to hate and hatefulness? What do we do now?
With this in mind, we have begun the process of structuring hope into our syllabi, our classes, and our program. Drawing from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including communication studies, environmental studies, and feminist theory, this roundtable seeks to extend our own conversations about what is possible as we think creatively about pedagogical approaches to hope. A roundtable at a Hate Studies conference offers a fantastic opportunity for a wide-ranging discussion to inform our work.
Our roundtable will invite participants to explore how “education is always a vocation rooted in hopefulness” (hooks, 2003, p. xiv) by engaging the following questions: What kinds of practices might help spark, and foster, student capacities to inventively, creatively, and meaningfully engage in re-imagining and re-shaping everyday life? What cultural and institutional norms impede pedagogies of hope, creativity, and imagination? Where do we find the imaginative resources for fostering hopeful pedagogies? How can hope be scaffolded/structured in pedagogical settings? How do we engage in radically hopefully pedagogy that is radically inclusive and takes account of how pedagogies of hope are interconnected with questions about power, identities, and positionalities? Who does a pedagogy of hope help? Who is burdened with the labor of developing and maintaining hopeful pedagogies?
In addition to conversation, this roundtable includes interactive components. Participants will engage and experiment with developing and sharing hopeful pedagogical practices that can be incorporated into the classroom context. As Jenkins, et al. (2020) said, “There can be no politics without hope, and it is through imagination that our hopes are rekindled” (p. 3). A pedagogy of hopeful imagination can resist the proliferation of hate in the 21st century and help establish communities of resistance that can imagine something better coming into being
Linguistics Strategies for Spreading Hate Online and Ideas to Counter Hate Speech
No full textThe 2023 International Conference on Hate Studies, held at Spokane Community College, featured the theme of Linguistics Strategies for Spreading Hate Online and Ideas to Counter Hate Speech included the following papers: Emergence of Virtual Hate Speech: The Case of the Philippine LGBTQIA+ Community, Maico Demi Aperocho Learn, Engage, Act: Digital Tools to Prevent and Counter Hate Speech Online, Snezhina Gabova Making Hate Great Again: Affective Nostalgia and the Right-Wing Rhetoric of the #FreedomConvoy, Zeinab Farokhi Preventing/Tackling Online Hate Speech and Discrimination through an Inter-legal Approach to Law in the Current Internet Governance. A European Perspective, Barbara Bell
Spokane\u27s Voices of the Holocaust
No full text“Spokane’s Voices of the Holocaust” is a 45-minute video produced by KSPS Spokane Public Television, in collaboration with the Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust Planning Committee. Through narratives, photos, and movie clips, it chronicles the events that led to the 1930s take-over of the German government by the National Socialist German Workers\u27 (Nazi) Party and its campaign over 12 years to purge Germany, and ultimately all of Europe, of its Jewish citizenry. Woven into the telling are the stories of Jewish Spokane residents who somehow survived the terror and chaos of those years, three of whom shared their experiences with student groups all over the Inland Northwest. The video was created in response to the realization that most of those who survived the genocide are no longer with us and that this was one way to preserve their stories and messages. With Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) falling just 2 days before this International Hate Studies Conference, it seemed appropriate to offer “Spokane’s Voices of the Holocaust” for viewing by the attendees. Following the video there will be an opportunity for the conference attendees to ask questions of a panel composed of some who appeared in the video as well as the Spokane Public Television producer of the video
The Shadow of Hate
No full textI hate you/you hate me/we both hate so easily...
My apologies to Art Garfunkel (“All I Know”), whose altered lyric captures the temper of today\u27s polarized political culture.
We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other…we are a part of each other.
James Baldwin, Here be Dragons, 1985
Our political culture has always been infected by hate. But it has generally made room for meaningful debate and advancement of constructive ideas. Today, however, the goal of public discourse is to conquer and dominate the other side with political and cultural attacks that are increasingly insulting, accusatory, insensitive, and reductive. Instead of debating ideas, leaders, media pundits and ordinary citizens have weaponized and normalized the use of reductive labels, demagoguery, technological sleight of hand, click bait, dog whistles, misinformation, and fear. In short, much of our public discourse is anything but dialogic. It is intended to diminish, debase, and dehumanize. It is hateful.
When I am honest with myself, I confess that I use language and engage in behavior that arguably demonizes and dehumanizes people like Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, Alex Jones, Donald Trump, and Nick Fuentes. My Christian upbringing tells me I should focus on the sin, separating the sin from the sinner, but I catch myself reflexively saying or implying that these people are inferior and unworthy humans. When I do so, am I contributing to the problem of normalizing hate in today’s culture and discourse? Or is hate defensible and healthy in some contexts (mine) while toxic and injurious in others (yours)
The Invisible Fire: How a U.S. Record in Hate Crime Was Missed & Ways to Address the Problem
No full textU.S. hate crimes were up, again in 2022, though with a smaller increase - into a fourth straight year according to new data from the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism (CSHE) - a 24 year-old award-winning research and policy institution at California State University, San Bernardino. Inital FBI data for 2021 released last December, showed a decline, before a March supplemental revision reversal, showed a record 10,840 - resulting in confusion among the public, journalists and policymakers. The FBI updated its data for 2021 after missing most of Ohio.
The latest CSHE data also showed another rise in hate crime in 2022. Other recent findings include rising violence, historic elongated hate crime spikes, mass homicides, shifts in group targeting - and numerous broken records back to 1991.
The new 2022 data is from a CSHE sample of over 30 major U.S. cities and follows double digit percentage increases in each of the last two years. A 2022 rise would be only the third time since national record keeping began where hate crimes rose for four straight years. Blacks, Jews, Gays and Latinos were the most frequent targets in 2022. However, the groups with the hiighest increases were other race, LGBTQ mixed, Gender non-conforming, Jews and Trangender.
2021 saw records fall in the largest cities and states, and also in a wave of anti-Asian violence. In the largest national 2021 data set, covering 196 million population across 18 states and the District of Columbia, CSHE found a cumulative increase of 21% to 8,896 – more than the FBI’s 2020 total for the entire U.S., and the highest since 2001’s record high of 9,730 spurred by the 9/11 terror attacks [below, center]. Nine states broke annual records in 2021 and 14 of 19 jurisdictions surveyed rose.
Larger cities rose more, by 29%, in another 2021 data set of major U.S. cities, covering 35 of the nation’s 50 largest ones. The ten largest U.S. cities rose even higher: by 39%, while also hitting a record total of 1,664 hate crimes [below left]. Smaller cities reported lower double-digit percentage increases. Canada reported a 27% increase in hate speech/crime in 2021.
CSHE subsets of 2021 hate crime data from higher reporting larger U.S. cities revealed a wide range of increases: a 224% rise in anti-Asian crimes to a new record total of 369, a 59% rise in anti-Jewish crimes, a 51% in anti-Gay crimes, a 41% in anti- Latino crimes, a 30% in anti-white ones, and a 16% rise in anti-Black crime. FBI national hate crime tallies started in 1991.
Anti-Black crime rose 46% in the FBI’s nationwide totals from 2020. In every 2021 overall CSHE data set anti-Black hate crime remained the most frequent bias. Anti-transgender bias 6% rise in 2021 may also be accelerating in 2022.
Because of newer issues with the FBI’s conversion to the NIBRS (National Incident Based Reporting System), as well as previous deficiencies the FBI’s 2021 release appears to be the most inaccurate in the history of the reporting program, which dates back to 1991. This presentation will also offer key recommendations for improving data collection in the United States
Beyond Self-Care : Rethinking the Issue of Marginalized Scholars\u27 Mental Health
No full textThere have been increasing calls to attend to the mental, emotional, and physical health or well-being of marginalized scholars within far right studies. Such calls to attention are welcome, because marginalized scholars belong to communities often targeted by supremacists who seek to preserve and intensify white, cis, heteropatriarchal dominance especially in Western contexts. Reading supremacist texts, consuming supremacist media, interviewing, and conducting participant observation with supremacists can adversely impact scholars of color, Jewish scholars, cis women, and LGBTQ people as these activities mean they must repeatedly confront the reality that they – and their communities – are at risk of bodily, somatic, structural, institutional, and psychological harm. Yet proposed ways of addressing these issues tend to align with neoliberal ideas “self-care” or are limited to individualized psychological interventions. To cope with distress, marginalized scholars are advised to take breaks, engage in enjoyable activities unrelated to their work, drink water, reach out to friends, or make sure to get plenty of sleep. Psychological interventions include seeking therapy and pushing for better access to mental health resources. There is nothing inherently wrong with caring for the self, and certainly, access to quality healthcare is crucial. At the same time, we question the tendency to place the responsibility of addressing issues marginalized scholars face on individuals rather than working to understand and change the structures that generate these problems in the first place. Finally, how might the rhetoric of “self-care” among academics distract from our entanglements with those most vulnerable to the dangers of supremacist and fascist politics? In other words, how does our preoccupation with individual well-being prevent us from working in solidarity with oppressed peoples, especially low-income communities, migrant groups from the Global South, and incarcerated people who struggle with forms of precarity from which most academics are relatively insulated? This roundtable will turn a critical eye towards individualistic approaches to health and well-being in far right studies