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Dr Fish Philosopher Todd (Dr FPT)🐟

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1. I was walking in the woods yesterday and I had an epiphany. It wasn’t one I wanted to have. I was thinking about today’s class, where we are reading

COVID lays bare inequalities that already existed in academia. Anglo-European academe kept publishing & presenting & administrating at its usual levels, & now, countries that hoard vaccines will begin pushing

There’s a lot of discourse these days that completely collapses Indigeneity into a Native American/USA framework and also erases the visceral terror that Indigenous Peoples experience worldwide defending homelands against

1. Western conservation rests on white liberal logics of turning animals/lands/waters/atmospheres into units to be managed, without agency. Indigenous relationality, broadly, across many cosmologies, acknowledges more-than-human beings with

As folks have noted, Butler’s commentary on interdependence really sounds a lot like Indigenous philosophy/cosmology. After a friend pointed this out, I purchased Butler’s new book on nonviolence: she does

I didn’t understand western alienation until I moved to Ontario. I grew up lefty: we marched in anti-poverty rallies, I worked as a constituency assistant for Dr Raj Pannu. I

1. Academic conferences for highly sensitive people/introverts/folks who find current systems unbearable: a) they would be held in soft gentle space near a brook, the ocean, or a lake. With

1. Do you understand why Indigenous anthros say we’re not safe or welcome in dominant white US/UK/Canadian Anthro?It’s not up to Nancy Scheper-Hughes to decide, nor is it up to

thoughts: no Indigenous folks included in the convo, focus shifted to personal story about editor rather than communal discussion about how we hold (white and BIPOC) elite Anthros accountable. Finally:

thinking about @IBJIYONGI's points that academe reproduces itself like church/priesthood. & how this might be why people feel guilt if they leave academe (like being cast out of a religion