Very excited to be starting the Mean Green K Lab tomorrow! We will be using this website to post materials and have discussions - make sure to check back here frequently and follow us on twitter! If you are in the lab leave a comment here and tell us a little about yourself so we can start to get to know you!
Hi I'm Cade Skelton and the reason debate is important because it allows for a unique space to learn about and interact with identity politics
ReplyDeleteIm Cameron Cassil and Im a future senior at NHS, in Newton Kansas. I am both the 2A and the 2N.
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ReplyDeleteI'm Shaneal Harun, and I would like to expand my ability to go for kritiks aside from Coloniality and Nietzsche
ReplyDeleteI'm Conner Holt and I'm double 2s. Also I think it would be cool to find some way to incorporate pirates into the topic, probably Deleuze and Guattari
ReplyDeleteHello all, I am occasionally called Cameron Meeker, but you can call me Cameron. I like nature. I'm all about an anthro debate!
ReplyDeleteI'm Reeda Virani, and I would like to learn more about coloniality and Nietzsche.
ReplyDeleteHi, my name is Inmer Carbajal, i started a bit late so i didnt get much time to learn the basics and k's in general. A lot of people in this K lab are here to strengthen the skills they already have. I am here because i want to develop skills to be able to run a K effectively and efficiently.
ReplyDeleteHi, I am Emma. My comment didn't post the first time.~ I do LD so I am kind of scared that I'm going to say and ask things that are irrelevant and mess the lab up for everybody else. For most of last year I ran intersectional feminist positions. For LD our TOC topic was "Resolved: Developing countries should prioritize environmental protection above resource extraction when the two are in conflict." For the entire topic I critiqued the idea of countries and people being "developing" vs "developed". Earlier on in the topic before TOC I ran the same position on both sides. I used the metaphor of the birdcage (http://www.cpt.org/files/US%20-%20Bird%20Cage%20of%20Sexism.pdf) that I first learned on over the summer before my junior year. By TOC I started running a different position on aff only. I said that developing/developed divide not only exists on the international level, but also within countries and within communities, and I used this analysis to talk about my own experience being a Mizrahi (Middle Eastern Jewish) woman in my country, Israel, because Ashkenazi (European Jewish) people always view Mizrahi people as lower and culturally inferior and make Mizrahi women such that they can be shamed sexually. Then I talk about how Mizrahi women in my country are beginning to (re)write their own historical stories, because they have always been written for them and never by them. I like to debate like this because I am biracial, so all of my family in the United States doesn't really understand these types of problems, and I witness my mother experience racialized violence both from them and from others in the States. My Israeli family is very traditional, so many topics that I am passionate about are not considered okay to talk about to them, so for me I feel like debate is often the only place where I am able to talk about anything I want, and somebody will have to listen to me for 45 minutes, even if they ignore me or are dismissive to me.
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