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Gender Disrupted During Storytime: Critical Literacy in Early Childhood
No full textIn Western early childhood education, cultural expectations about socially acceptable gender performance too often divide young learners along the Victorian sex-gender binary, erasing the beauty of childhood gender diversity. This essay advocates for the development of children’s gender literacy skills through the use of picture books. Building on Judith Butler’s theory of recognizability, I argue that gender is a sociocultural construct that can be actively disrupted during storytime activities. Texts featuring gender-nonconforming characters and corresponding pedagogical strategies for deconstructing gender portrayals in children’s literature are analyzed and offered in this essay
Artwork From ICE Detention Centers (colour drawings)
No full textThe following drawings were crafted by detained refugees and highlight both the hardships and humanity of life inside immigration detention centers
Palestine and the Habeas Viscus: An Auto-ethnography of Travel, Visa Violence, and Borders
No full textBorders have been a political tool to control, manipulate and affect the lives and movements of individual and groups. These borders can also work as barriers designed to discriminate against specific ethnic, religious, or linguistic groups and individuals for political reasons. In specific cases, borders can create an entire generation of exception, where the lives of a particular age group matter less than others. Palestinians in Gaza have been living in a state of exception, where their lives have been animalized and constrained both within the Gaza Strip and also outside the Gaza Strip, at border points of entry in many places. This paper is an autoethnography of the lives of Palestinians as a state of exception, visa violence, airports and borders. Borrowing Weheliye’s concept of habeas viscus, the paper examines and describes experiences such as visa applications, rejections, travel, and encounters with border officials. The article starts with describing the state of exception of Gazans who were born and grew up under Israeli occupation. The paper then examines and analyzes the process and ritual of traveling as a quasi-citizen through various border points of entry. This article is an anthropological narrative of how a continuous state of exception turns individuals into homo sacer
West Bank–Israel Wall During COVID-19: Migrant Labour Upends Border Function: The Case of Construction Labour
No full textThe function of the West Bank–Israeli separation barrier, designed to segregate Palestinians away from Israeli territory, was subverted by the COVID-19 crisis. For the first time, the barrier locked West Bank Palestinians inside Israel. For a two-month period, construction workers from the West Bank were sequestered at work sites in Israel to reduce movement of people between the territories while also minimizing economic losses. This turn of events illustrates the ad hoc economic interests underlying Israeli security policy toward the West Bank. 
Border Control (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina) and Local Inventiveness in Times of COVID-19
No full textLocal level effects of closing borders between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil in order to confront COVID-19 disarticulated modes of existence of border dwellers, generating local protests for reopening, creating “sanitary refugees”, deepening the trends of biotechnological controls and sophisticating smuggling. Data for this essay was obtained from local online newspapers and analyzed with help of anthropological and geographical experiences at the border, concentrating on the description of border life and on its changes due to the sudden closure. The essay shows that the complex control structures at these borders gained a centrality whose effects were, besides stifling the pandemic, dismantling and rearticulating border practices, evidently in favor of more control. A disregard of cross-border integration, circulation and communication demonstrates the underlying reification of borders between these three national states
Let the Land Heal You
No full textColonization has affected Indigenous communities and created a major shift in Indigenous ways of being,knowing, and doing. This letter explores how colonization has caused trauma for Indigenous communities,specifically Dene men in the Northwest Territories. As a Dene woman and current student in a social workprogram, I work to uphold my responsibility to learn and be a resource to my people. In this letter, I willdiscuss the impacts of colonization on Dene men as a source of trauma, and the importance of returningto the land to heal oneself through Dene practices. I begin by discussing Dene people’s relationship tothe land as conveyed through our Creation Story. Next, I provide an overview of Dene experiences ofcolonization and systemic oppression. I then reflect on healing our historical trauma by returning to theland and allowing the land to heal us through ceremony.
Keywords: Colonization, trauma, Den
