Sunday — 11.22.20 — Thirtieth Testing Assembling
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CONTENTS:
0. An Invitation
1. Maria Lugones Lectures
2. Notes for Assembly
3. Short note on Artsakh/Karabakh
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0. An Invitation
Dear Friends,
We would like to invite you to our thirtieth test at assembling.
For those interested in joining us virtually, please write to mai [AT] 16beavergroup.org and we will send details.
We will meet on Sunday Nov. 22 2020 at 11AM (New York Time)
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1. Maria Lugones Lectures
1. Women of Colour Feminisms and Decoloniality – 29th June:
youtu.be/7O7Sg7fTltE
2. On Coalitions Across Oppressions – 30th June:
youtu.be/xoh7FUlgEcU
3. A Dialogue of Feminisms: Re-existence and the Communal (a
conversation with Gloria Wekker) – 3rd July:
youtu.be/jFmFgSh2vZw
4. Decolonial Feminism and Comunalidad – 6th July:
youtu.be/UMpgi5VT1L8
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2. Notes for Assembly
This year, among the many losses, we mark the passing of Maria Lugones, a critical voice thinking through feminism from a decolonial perspective. As part of a study around her work and thought, we will be joined by some of her friends to both remember her and recall some critical aspects of her thinking which we hope can nourish our struggles to come.
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3. Note on Artsakh/Karabakh
We would like to recognize and mourn, especially in a week where violence committed against indigenous peoples of the world comes front and center for those living in the US, the grave loss for world culture this last week.
This week, we can say that the forces of genocide, ethnic cleansing, injustice, denialism, war, and forced oblivion have registered another victory. This week, we mourn the loss for world culture. The Armenians of Artsakh are a people continuously inhabiting the same lands of their ancestors going back to the beginnings of recorded history (in the region).
After more than 40 days of being bombed and droned to death, losing thousands of lives, witnessing the destruction of their towns, villages, cities, they have been forced to surrender the defense of their historic communities, sacred sites, rivers, forests, mountains. They have been forced to accept ethnic cleansing in the 21st century at the hands of two states (Azerbaijan and Turkey), one of them a member state of NATO, as a condonable reality in front of the entire world. They have been forced to accept the outcomes of state perpetrated Genocide and subsequent denialism and falsification of history as falsification of our present.
There will be much more to say and share, but we did not want to join the chorus of silence around this grave injustice and crime of our time.