Part 3, Episode 2: Resisting Institutions

Following up on Resisting Institutions

Posted on March 28, 2023 · 3 min read

Conversation Overview and Highlights

In part 2 of this episode, we talked about about resisting institutions, namely resisting academia, problematic K-12 norms, systems of power and oppression, and other harmful spaces.

Reflections and Ponderings

Thank you to our wonderful podcast audience member, Alex Gore, who wrote this episode’s reflections and ponderings.

I am a student in a class taught by one of the hosts of this podcast, Briana Bettin. The class is titled “Reimagining Technofuturism” and is about reimaging computing in ways that center people and communities. The day that this podcast came out, in class we were talking about how we could frame ourselves in relation to systems of power in regard to the larger topic of data set curation and use and how we leverage data and datasets.

That day in class we had watched a video about bell hooks talking about interlocking systems of domination and it reminded me of this podcast. I remember sitting in class thinking about how in the podcast, Shana and Nicki were talking about this idea of race and that the term racism wasn’t used as much as the term white supremacy. After I watched this, I think that some of it could have to do with bell hooks’s idea that the term racism allows white people to be at the center of the discussion, whereas the term white supremacy doesn’t just evoke white people, but it evokes a political world that we all frame ourselves in relationship to.

Additional Resources

Dr. Washington and her work

Shana and her work

Learn more about the topics brought up in Part 2

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