Academe. Again.

Which is why I love La Chola's 1, 2, 3, and 4-part take on academe--and respect the change being worked from all kinds of directions.

From a post I (Kismet) wrote a few weeks ago on understanding latinidad and the importance of praxis and theory to that understanding.

Because I don't believe you can have one without the other.

Despite the academic industrial complex.

And despite the vagaries of appointments, tenure, and promotion. And the spirit injury done to radical women of color academics in educational institutions across this country (the world).

I still believe...

That at the end of the day...

The textbooks that are circulated in schools...

They matter. A lot.

And the history that is done by men and women who care that the world is not ALL heterosexual, upper middle-class, Anglo-American and white....

That violence is done to make it appear that way...

That such violence wraps ALL of us in a history we have yet to understand....

That none of us are actually at peace and free to be until we are ALL at peace and free to be...

When that history is brought into a classroom and it is taught right....

I believe it changes lives.

Because it has changed mine.

(This was first. This was second. This will probably be third.)

Any questions?

Good.

Let's get on back to movement building.....

Thank you for listening.