I want to address four points pertaining to ongoing ICE and Border Patrol discourse surrounding the state-enacted murders of multiple U.S. citizens and disappearances of undocumented civilians. * 1. This is exactly what they were created and trained to do. No amount of training or reform will fix militarized police forces designed to protect settler…
Category: Anti-Colonialism
I Attended a 3-Day AI Workshop. Here’s My New Course Policy.
“Know your enemy, know his sword.” -Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings I am signing up for just about every training, microcredential, and workshop on artificial intelligence implementation in higher education. This week, I completed a three-day faculty development workshop that walked us through gauging AI’s “disruption” in our classrooms and assignments. Overall, I…
4 Common Myths About Ancestry DNA Testing
Understand that if you are someone who worries about state surveillance or police violence, contributing DNA samples and genealogical information to “ancestry” corporations only feeds the system. The Biden administration’s failure to renew or bolster antitrust protections prior to his end-of-term allowed for the current wave of corporate restructuring and mergers, but most media attention…
Ableist Terms & Slurs: Part 2
This set includes eight different terms with their original meanings, common use, and sociopolitical implications. The next set will focus on mental health and hospital jargon. Removing oppressive, racial capitalist language from our vocabularies is a necessary part of the decolonization process. When someone claims these terms are neutral or their use is inconsequential, what…
Let’s Talk About: Nick Fuentes
All these new Nick Fuentes fans are mad that I called him a Neo-Nazi, but he is literally King of the Online Nazis. New fans are offended, but Fuentes would respond, “yeah. And?” This is how extremists cement themselves within mainstream conversations, though. They rely on misinformation and allow people to believe whatever they want…
Compulsory Cursive Writing Instruction is a Colonial Relic
An earlier version of the following was originally posted to Facebook: Oct 24, 2025. My post on cursive writing struck a nerve. Good. Romans invented cursive. There’s a reason colonial empires elevate it above other writing styles. There’s a reason people will think, “ooh fancy,” or “wow so neat!” when looking at English cursive writing…
Ableist Terms & Slurs
Their Meanings & Origins Removing oppressive, racial capitalist language from our vocabularies is a necessary part of the decolonization process. When someone claims these terms are neutral or their use is inconsequential, what they are doing is saying they value individual linguistic expression more than the very lives of disabled people. While you might not…