The current US administration has moved quickly to implement the latest version of what Naomi Klein calls The Shock Doctrine: create (and/or take advantage of) a crisis so acute that it effectively stuns the public into paralysis and then acquiescence to drastic policy changes that would otherwise be staunchly opposed.
As overwhelming as this is, according to the late Gloria Anzaldúa, “what we do now counts even more than the…shock…that made cracks in our worlds." Hers was a reminder to resist contributing to a trajectory of harm and instead be the healing wound. How might those insights guide us in today's crisis? Join us in exploring this question with Rosa Garza-Mourino and Tanjerine Vei.
Tanjerine Vei received their Ph.D. and M.Ed. in Education, Culture, & Society at the University of Utah. Their research focuses on transformative pedagogies with Indigenous, Queer, and Women of Colors feminisms providing the lenses through which they cultivate teaching and learning practices. Tanji is also a gardener and visual artist, and they have three cats named Petra, Wren, and Inanna.
Rosa Garza-Mourino MA, Media and Cultural Studies, Mexico City, serves the Undergraduate Studies program as a transdisciplinary educator, scholar and academic administrator driven by curiosity and difference. Uses a social justice lens to teach cultural analysis methods and immersive learning pedagogies applicable to the fields of film, media, arts-based activism, and cities, especially Los Angeles as a learning context. As Director of External Academic Partnerships is in charge of the Internship Program, community engagement initiatives with mission aligned organizations, and serves as articulation liaison with 2 year local colleges, extension programs and conservatory schools.