Recommended resources shared by Dr. José Miguel Paez (he/him/his), LCSW, Ed.D
CSUN MSW Department – guest speaker March 18, 2021
Johanna Hedva (yo-haw-nuh head-vuh; they/them/their) is a Korean-American writer, artist, musician, and astrologer, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin. Hedva’s practice cooks magic, necromancy, and divination together with mystical states of fury and ecstasy. There is always the body — its radical permeability, dependency, and consociation — but the task is how to eclipse it, how to nebulize it, and how to cope when this inevitably fails. Ultimately, Hedva’s work, no matter the genre, is different kinds of writing, whether it’s words on a page, screaming in a room, or dragging a hand through water.
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator: “My work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice and supporting youth leadership development. After over 20 years of living and organizing in Chicago, I moved back to my hometown of New York City in May 2016.”
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot: “As a portraitist, I am witness, archeologist, spider woman, storyteller, and mirror…probing—through art and science, empathy and discernment—the layers and subtexts of human experience; listening for the voices and silences, documenting the good, and honoring the chaos and contradictions, the ironies and ambiguities threaded through our lives.” Check out some of her scholarship by clicking here.
Eve Tuck is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. She is Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities. Tuck is the founding director of the Tkaronto CIRCLE Lab. Tuck is Unangax̂ and is an enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska. She grew up outside of her community, living in Pennsylvania as a child, and New York City as a young adult. She earned a PhD in Urban Education from The Graduate Center, The City University of New York in 2008. Tuck’s work is on urban education and Indigenous studies. As a whole, her research focuses on how Indigenous social thought can be engaged to create more fair and just social policy, more meaningful social movements, and robust approaches to decolonization. She makes a podcast with graduate students at OISE, University of Toronto, called The Henceforward, on relationships between Indigenous and Black communities on Turtle Island. Check out one of Eve Tuck’s articles “Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities.”
Thich Nhat Hanh is the living embodiment of mindfulness. His mindfulness teachings and practices have very wide appeal to people from various religious, spiritual, and political backgrounds. He is is one of the best known and most respected Zen masters in the world today, prolific author, poet, and peace and human rights activist. Check out “How to Fight” by clicking here.
Frances Lee is a Cultural Studies scholar: “I am interested in the ways that culture does the work of power.” Check out their article: “Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice.”
Other Resources:
Towards Anti-Carceral Social Work (2020)
Videos:
Transformative Justice in the Era of #DefundPolice: Lessons from the Past, Strategizing for the Future Conversation with Shira Hassan and Mimi Kim
On the Road With Abolition: Assessing Our Steps Along the Way by Haymarket Books
Podcasts:
WELL FOR CULTURE is is a grassroots initiative which aims to reclaim and revitalize Indigenous health and wellness. We study and implement the lifestyle teachings of our ancestors, meanwhile incorporating new information to contribute to this ancient and ongoing chain of knowledge. Indigenous culture has always been dynamic, and wellness is an inherent aspect.
A conversation about social work, oppression, and liberation.
The official podcast of the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute – each episode we dive deeply into the life, practice and experimentation of a person or group who we see as living embodiments of emergent strategy. Emergent Strategy is about how we get in right relationship with change – what are the simple interactions that can shift and shape complex systems and patterns? Hosts are Sage Crump, Mia Herndon and adrienne maree brown.
How to Survive the End of the World
A podcast with adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown on learning from the apocalypse with grace, rigor and curiosity.
Brittany Packnett Cunningham is an activist, educator, and popular TV commentator—and a trusted voice for millions of people interested in social justice. Now, with UNDISTRACTED—an original podcast from The Meteor and Pineapple Street Studios—she aims her focus on the most pressing issues of our time through the lens of intersectional feminism. From the latest headlines to deep-dives with today’s most fascinating changemakers, UNDISTRACTED is your weekly guide to the revolution.
Each episode will go deep on a big story you’ll definitely want to hear more about. We’ll share with you our best investigations (think private prisons, electoral skullduggery, Dark Money, and Trump’s Russia connections), and informative interviews with our reporters and newsmakers. We’re hoping to make your week more informed with the stories that really matter, told by us, the folks you trust for smart, fearless, reporting.
