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• Posted Flipping the power and control wheel positively to Multiracial Feminist Politics and Policies
  Alright, so I'm not sure if this is the way we were supposed to go about this but this is what I did: I went through each section of the power and control wheel and made lists strategies to...
• Posted White Castle & Gender Violence to Multiracial Feminist Politics and Policies
  The first time I saw this commercial, I didn't really see what was wrong with it - I saw it as vulgar and yes disgusting, but I didn't see how this commercial, as do most of the media we...
• Posted To the white women in this class... to SW 3501: Theories & Practices of Social Change Organizing
  http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/12/02/pearl-clutchers-and-straw-women/ I was directed to this article by a friend of mine. You'll understand once you read it (its not long) but I think its super important for us white women to have another friendly reminder not to hide under...
• Posted The Hood: North Side or Frat Row? to SW 3501: Theories & Practices of Social Change Organizing
  Anya Svanoe I grew up in Madison, WI. It’s not necessarily gang prone, but my neighborhood was near downtown and my school certainly made clear a gang and drug potential threat to us. In elementary school we received monthly newsletters...
• Posted Recreation and Style of the New Urban to SW 3501: Theories & Practices of Social Change Organizing
  Anya Svanoe Tess Gartenberg The sound demo begins with the song, “How long will they mourn me?� by Tupac Shakur. The words go: All my homies drinking liquor Tears in everybody's eyes Niggas cried to mourn a homies homicide But...
• Posted Neoliberalism's Globalizing Displacement to SW 3501: Theories & Practices of Social Change Organizing
  Anya Svanoe I'll start this with a bit of honesty: I struggled a lot with this reading, and thought also wasn't stirred up nearly as much by this text as I have been with previous texts. In Neil Smith’s “New...
• Posted God Bless to SW 3501: Theories & Practices of Social Change Organizing
• Posted An Oppressive Human Knot of Identity to SW 3501: Theories & Practices of Social Change Organizing
  Anya Svanoe Learning Response 3 In Allan Berube’s “How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays�, he entails his experiences about how gayness has been racialized and how both sexual orientation, gender, class and race are complexly...
• Posted Rum and Coke to SW 3501: Theories & Practices of Social Change Organizing
  Anya Svanoe In Albert Memmi’s “The Colonizer and the Colonized� he takes you on a journey into the psyche of the rejecting colonizer, the accepting colonizer and the colonized. With each character you experience a decision-making process and an evaluation...
• Posted Absolute Freedom Dreams to SW 3501: Theories & Practices of Social Change Organizing
  In James C. Scott’s “The Public Transcript as a Respectable Performance� he describes how domination of the subordinate is maintained through public demonstrations of power. These complex demonstrations/performances are strategically planned to manifest both psychological and coercive power over the...
• Posted Thugs are normal too. to SW 2501W: Spring 2008
  Anya Svanoe First off – Suzan-Lori Parks is fucking sweet. As for the reading, I don’t know if it was just that I struggled hard to focus on the reading today, but I really struggled fully understanding The Spectacle of...
• Posted I am part of the problem to SW 2501W: Spring 2008
  Anya Svanoe It’s true. I am part of the problem, and so are you. Throughout the semester we’ve been learning about this System, this Order that holds our nation and is now as we read in Harvey, taking over the...
• Posted Obama, Immigration, White Supremacy Cults, and Shrunken Penis's. to SW 2501W: Spring 2008
  Anya Svanoe (Attention grabing title huh? That doesn't mean it was just for entertainment, it all pertains) It is incredibly ironic how intertwined the readings and work from this and my ‘Cultural Diversity and the World System’. Because of this...
• Posted But what about the rich rebels? to SW 2501W: Spring 2008
  Anya Svanoe To be honest, all the readings I have done for this class are making me quite sick. Not until recently have I increasingly become disgusted with the way our world functions. There is no point in complaining though;...
• Posted Pastoral~Political power to SW 2501W: Spring 2008
  -Anya- Throughout Foucault’s essay he brings up the subject of pastoral power. Being that my father is a Lutheran pastor (and with whom I am very critical of) this hit a note with me. I think that when Foucault describes...
• Posted Action speaks louder than words. to SW 2501W: Spring 2008
  -ANYA- My understanding of Lordes piece is that with or without silence there will be pain and ridicule. So instead of choking on your silence… speak. Speak because fearlessness is a rarity and a luxury that if ever experienced, is...