Tournament: Little Rock Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cabot JC | Judge: Akshay Padala
Feminist narratives of the hood are tools to pathologize Black girls in the hood. Performative activism that forefronts white feminist narratives rely on the “white savior” to speak for the hood; this legitimizes patriarchy by ignoring the intersection of race and class. The world is not safe for young, Black femmes. Kendall, 20
Mikki Kendall (born October 23, 1976) is an author, activist, and cultural critic. Her work often focuses on current events, media representation, the politics of food, and the history of the feminist movement. Penguin Random House published her graphic novel Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists in 2019, while her political nonfiction book Hood Feminism was released in early 2020. Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That A Movement Forgot, pg. 78-82 LM
Girls in the hood must learn to present only the …
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… boundary between safe and unsafe that can be drawn along color or class lines.
Their disposability extends to debate tournaments; high school LD uniquely excludes students of color. “Neutrality in arguments” ensures black debaters hate speech similar to what’s spoken at Klan rallies except it’s the halls and zoom rooms of debate tournaments. Smith, 13
Elijah J Smith is the Director of the Rutgers University-Newark Debate Team. Elijah held debate coaching and programming positions throughout the world, including at Wake Forest University and the University of California, Berkley, and in programs in Shanghai, China. Smith has been one of debate's shining stars as he progressed from high school and collegiate debate competition to coaching. A Newark native, Smith began debating as a student at University High School. In spring 2013, Smith helped make history in the collegiate debate world when he and his debate partner, Ryan Wash, won that year’s national Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) championship title and garnered the championship title for the National Debate Tournament (NDT), a stunning achievement unparalleled by any team in the history of the two tournaments. Moreover, Smith and Wash were the first African-American team to win the NDT and the second African-American team to win the CEDA tournament. “A Conversation in Ruins: Race and Black Participation in Lincoln Douglas Debate,” 4 September 2013, https://www.vbriefly.com/2013/09/06/20139a-conversation-in-ruins-race-and-black-participation-in-lincoln-douglas-debate/ Cgilbert
At every tournament you attend this year look around the cafeteria and take …
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… will lose out on the ability to judge, coach, or to force debate to deal with the truth of their perspectives.
Black Women are captive, suspended within the captivity that no amount of liberal discourse on bodies or subjective choice can free us from. Focusing on the unprotected and violated flesh of the Black Femme is the only starting point for politics. Debates about civil disobedience are useless without providing an analytic to understand black female suffering; that makes the aff a precondition for devising political strategies. Malaklou, 18
M. Shadee Malaklou is an Assistant Professor and Chair, Women’s and Gender Studies; Director of the Women’s and Gender Non-Conforming Center. Theory and Event, Volume 21, Number 1, January 2018, pp. 215-258 Kansas BD
If the inclusivity of liberal humanism-cum-…
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… grammar of this wor(l)d’s insatiably violent antiblack prose.
Vote affirmative to endorse epistemic disobedience in debate; this requires unlearning preconceived notions of the IP protections but also normative interps of debate. Amsler and Facer 17
Sarah Amsler Associate Professor in Education, University of Nottingham Keri Facer Graduate School of Education, Futures UniversityContesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future Volume 94, November 2017, Pages 6-14 Kansas KR
In the theories and practices made public by these projects, we find neither a desire to colonize the future through its algorithmic induction nor a resignation to abandoning it to power or chance, but pedagogies, curricula and modes of governance which are designed to enlarge spaces of possibility to participate in autonomous and common forms of life. Here there …
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… of interpretation or domesticating them with scientifically rationalities (Mandell, 2014).