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"The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat." -James Baldwin
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Mural by Miles and Mara - muham.mara
Pottery by Vic - poterie.potera
Tattoo by Miles - mushroom.goblin.studio
Part 1 filmed at Community Digital Arts Hub - cdahstudio.ca/
Part 3 filmed at Tattoo Art Connexion Montreal - tattooartconnexion
Script edited by talah e.
Voiceover by @JacobGeller
The end credits song is "The Great Depression" by Willi Carlisle. Listen here: willicarlislemusic.bandcamp.com/album/critterland
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Sources:
Paolo Freire, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"
Zadie Smith, "Shibboleth" (The New Yorker) www.newyorker.com/news/essay/shibboleth-the-role-of-words-in-the-campus-protests
Sam Biddle, “Israeli Weapons Firms Required to Buy Cloud Services From Google and Amazon ” (The Intercept) theintercept.com/2024/05/01/google-amazon-nimbus-israel-weapons-arms-gaza/
Lee Baxandall & Stefan Morawski (ed.), “Marx & Engels on Literature & Art”
Kunail Chaudhary, "Canadian pension funds invested $1.6 billion in companies tied to Israeli apartheid" (The Breach) breachmedia.ca/canadian-pension-funds-invested-israeli-apartheid/
Kay Bonnetti's interview with Toni Cade Bambara, collected in "Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara" (ed. Thabiti Lewis)
Toni Cade Bambara, "Gorilla, My Love"
Further reading & viewing:
Mitch Speed, “The Case Against Art?” mitch-speed.com/archive-1
Herby Revolus, “Why Celebrity ‘Activism’ Doesn’t Work” czcams.com/video/u4N4-wwPXig/video.htmlsi=tWKxzXV9MNz3RyjT
Walter Rodney, “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”
Tabitha Arnold's newsletter Labor Intensive Art tabithaarnold.substack.com/
Journal of Art for Life journals.flvc.org/jafl/index
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Table of contents:
0:00 Cold open
1:33 Join the conversation!
13:15 Make it make sense!
25:37 Wash your dishes!