“Decolonization: What’s Love Got to Do With It?” is a day-long festival that takes place September 25, 2021 at Goddard College. The program examines the ongoing impact of settler colonialism, and asks how we at Goddard can contribute to movements for decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty. The title, “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” amplifies… Continue reading Decolonization: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Category: Undergraduate Studies Program
Reckoning and Rupturing by Muriel E. Shockley
Beloved Community, We’ve been in the midst of a reckoning. As I write this missive, the banner across my tv screen reads “Fauci says no time frame for life returning to normal.” Which begs the question: what is normal? What does “ normal” mean when in 2021 the confederate flag, a symbol of treason and… Continue reading Reckoning and Rupturing by Muriel E. Shockley
Revolutionary Presence: Technologies, Collective Imagination, and Transformative Engagement
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind. –Grace Lee Boggs A Shifting Landscape Amid pandemic the world is changing in ways that we are still learning to identify. Whether we are pixelated on screens, intertwined in global networks,… Continue reading Revolutionary Presence: Technologies, Collective Imagination, and Transformative Engagement
A Radical Alternative to Online Instruction
The sudden shift to remote instruction has caused a needed moment of critical interrogation in higher education. Colleges, universities, and the students that attend them are all making difficult choices about the Fall semester. At the heart of these decisions lies a question about the fundamental nature of education. Goddard College, a well-kept secret in the… Continue reading A Radical Alternative to Online Instruction
The Fight for the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation
A conversation with Goddard alum Hartman Deetz In the end of March, Secretary David Bernhardt of the Department of the Interior ordered the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take the Mashpee Wampanoag’s 321-acre reservation out of trust. This removed it from the federal reservation system. This federal action uses a legal loophole, arguing that the Mashpee… Continue reading The Fight for the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation
Learning to Decolonize
The current discussion about the future of democracy in the United States is, beneath its surface, also a conversation about the preservation of a settler-colonial project. It is about assuring settler futurity. Colonization is fundamentally achieved through the material theft of land and labor and the elimination and exploitation of people and culture. Educational institutions… Continue reading Learning to Decolonize