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| Glenbrooks | 4 | Brookfield East DJ | Holden Bukowsky |
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| Glenbrooks | Doubles | Saratoga AG | Rodrigo Paramo, Joseph Barquin, Jenn Melin |
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| Grapevine | 2 | Southlake Carroll SD | Claudia Ribera |
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| Grapevine | 4 | Coppell ER | David Salazar |
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| Greenhill | 1 | Memorial SC | David Yi |
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| Greenhill | 4 | Westlake AC | David Asafu-Adjaye |
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| Greenhill | 6 | Immaculate Heart JL | Ishan Rereddy |
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| Harvard Westlake | 2 | Immaculate Heart SP | Eric Deng |
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| Harvard Westlake | 4 | Immaculate Heart EL | Julian Kuffour |
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| Harvard Westlake | 6 | Marlborough LK | Rodrigo Paramo |
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| Harvard Westlake RR | 1 | Marlborough MJ | Gabriel Morbeck, Truman Le |
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| Harvard Westlake RR | 4 | Lexington AG | Vishan Chaudhary, Krish Patel |
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| Harvard Westlake RR | 6 | Sage MP | Claudia Ribera, Chris Castillo |
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| Loyola | 2 | Independent WW | Ronak Ahuja |
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| Loyola | 4 | St Croix ADe | Albert Cardenas |
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| Loyola | 6 | Strake Jesuit EP | Duc Than |
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| Meadows | 1 | Brophy SA | X Braithwaite |
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| Meadows | 4 | Interlake DB | Silma Bathily |
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| Meadows | Octas | Immaculate Heart JL | Luca Galardi, Stephanie LeClaire-Vasquez, Diana Alvarez |
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| Glenbrooks | 2 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1AC - Chrononormativity |
| Glenbrooks | 4 | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Holden Bukowsky 1AC - Chrononormativity |
| Glenbrooks | Doubles | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Rodrigo Paramo, Joseph Barquin, Jenn Melin 1AC - Chrononormativity |
| Grapevine | 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Claudia Ribera 1AC - Colonial Capitalism |
| Grapevine | 4 | Opponent: Coppell ER | Judge: David Salazar 1AC - Colonial Capitalism |
| Greenhill | 1 | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: David Yi 1AC - Colonial Capitalism |
| Greenhill | 4 | Opponent: Westlake AC | Judge: David Asafu-Adjaye 1AC - Colonial Capitalism |
| Greenhill | 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Ishan Rereddy 1AC - Colonial Capitalism |
| Harvard Westlake | 2 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart SP | Judge: Eric Deng 1AC - The Final Frontier v2 |
| Harvard Westlake | 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart EL | Judge: Julian Kuffour 1AC - The Final Frontier v2 |
| Harvard Westlake | 6 | Opponent: Marlborough LK | Judge: Rodrigo Paramo 1AC - The Final Frontier v2 |
| Harvard Westlake RR | 1 | Opponent: Marlborough MJ | Judge: Gabriel Morbeck, Truman Le 1AC - The Final Frontier |
| Harvard Westlake RR | 4 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Vishan Chaudhary, Krish Patel 1AC - The Final Frontier |
| Harvard Westlake RR | 6 | Opponent: Sage MP | Judge: Claudia Ribera, Chris Castillo 1AC - The Final Frontier |
| Loyola | 2 | Opponent: Independent WW | Judge: Ronak Ahuja 1AC - Colonial Capitalism |
| Loyola | 4 | Opponent: St Croix ADe | Judge: Albert Cardenas 1AC - Colonial Capitalism |
| Loyola | 6 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit EP | Judge: Duc Than 1AC - Colonial Capitalism |
| Meadows | 1 | Opponent: Brophy SA | Judge: X Braithwaite 1AC - Colonial Capitalism v2 |
| Meadows | 4 | Opponent: Interlake DB | Judge: Silma Bathily 1AC - Colonial Capitalism v2 |
| Meadows | Octas | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Luca Galardi, Stephanie LeClaire-Vasquez, Diana Alvarez 1AC - Colonial Capitalism v2 |
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JANFEB -- 1AC -- The Final FrontierTournament: Harvard Westlake RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough MJ | Judge: Gabriel Morbeck, Truman Le "…America has always been a frontier nation. Now we must embrace the next frontier. America’s Manifest Destiny in the stars…Our ancestors braved the unknown, tamed the wilderness, settled the Wild West…vanquished tyranny and fascism, ushered the world to new heights of science and medicine, laid down the railroads, dug out the canals, raised up the skyscrapers. This is our glorious and magnificent inheritance. We are Americans. We are pioneers. We are the pathfinders. We settled the New World. We built the modern world…here, on this land, on this soil, on this continent… We look at tomorrow and see unlimited frontiers just waiting to be explored."(President Donald J. Trump, 2020 State of the Union address, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/politics/state-of-union-transcript.html, accessed 1-12-2022)nikki Settler colonialism is structured by the imperative of progress that demands the universal imposition of linear time and the reproduction of evacuated space – indigenous continuities of space and time are located simultaneously as the "blank slate" upon which the "perfect laboratory" can be constructed and the antagonistic pre-modern savage obstructing the emergence of settler modernity. From the Lakota nation massacred in service of industrial development in the Black Hills to the usage of the Galapagos as a microcosm for evolutionary study to the taking of Navajo lands for spaceflight testing to the indigenous Hawaiian protectors of Mauna Kea whose spiritual connections are being erased in favor of Western astronomy, the scientific terrain of outer space cannot be conceptualized apart from the ongoing process of imperialistic otherization that legitimates settler sovereignty in the present.Sammler and Lynch ’21 — (Katherine G Sammler, Casey R Lynch, 9-2-2021, "Apparatuses of observation and occupation: Settler colonialism and space science in Hawai'i," SAGE Journals, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758211042374, accessed 1-12-2022)nikki AND the geology of the Hawaiian landscape, and bodies of observer and observed. Outer space is a perpetual site of conquest and colonization – the latest iteration of the genocidal project of terra nullius aimed at the naturalization of settler sovereignty over the "untamed" and "unknown" geographies of space. The project of extraterrestrial appropriation is rooted in the eliminatory logics of settler colonialism that seek to reinstitute the dispossession of Manifest Destiny in the present at the expense of indigeneity.Smiles ’20 — postdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University. A citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, his ongoing research agenda is situated at the intersection of critical Indigenous geographies and political ecology, centered in the argument that tribal protection of remains, burial grounds, and more-than-human environments represents an effective form of ‘quotidian’ resistance against the settler colonial state. (Deondre Smiles, 10-26-2020, "The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space," Settler Colonial and Indigenous Geographies, Society and Space, https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-settler-logics-of-outer-space, accessed 1-11-2022)nikki AND space? What can be done to push back against these settler logics? The "evolutionary creed" of settler colonialism is replicated in the context of space – the settler drive to appropriate the natural world beyond Earth is founded in a belief in the intrinsic right to territorial expansion and imposition of colonial modes of worldmaking.Bowen ’16 — (Bowen, 7-23-2016, "Space: The Final Settler Colony," Two Frontiers: Settler Colonialism in California and Australia, University of Southern California, https://pwpaustralia2016.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/space-the-final-settler-colony/, accessed 1-11-2022)nikki AND system, let us hope we can leave such vices behind on Earth. Thus we affirm the decolonization of outer space — the affirmative forefonts engagement with indigenous epistemological orientations towards space that precede and exceed the confines of Western scientific rationalism – a remaking of outer space into a site of radical possibility through the lens of indigenous interrelationality.Smiles ’20 — postdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University. A citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, his ongoing research agenda is situated at the intersection of critical Indigenous geographies and political ecology, centered in the argument that tribal protection of remains, burial grounds, and more-than-human environments represents an effective form of ‘quotidian’ resistance against the settler colonial state. (Deondre Smiles, 10-26-2020, "The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space," Settler Colonial and Indigenous Geographies, Society and Space, https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-settler-logics-of-outer-space, accessed 1-11-2022)nikki AND a crucial moment where the settler state turns its gaze towards the same. The injection of indigenous cosmological understandings is uniquely key in academic spaces – academic deliberation over space is dominated by Western scientific thought that marginalizes alternative approaches to knowledge production.Taylor ’19 — producer for Science Friday (Christie Taylor, 9-6-2019, "Relearning The Star Stories Of Indigenous Peoples," Science Friday, https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/indigenous-peoples-astronomy/, accessed 1-11-2022)nikki AND It was a journey that led him, ultimately, to the stars. The affirmative is a form of particular decolonization that theorizes repatriation as necessitating specific and contextual solvency in varying spheres of indigenous life – the praxis of the 1AC provides a clear path forward into a materially and metaphysically decolonized future.Tuck and Yang 12 ~Eve Tuck is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. She is Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities. K. Wayne Yang writes about decolonization and everyday epic organizing, particularly from underneath ghetto colonialism, often with his frequent collaborator, Eve Tuck. Currently, they are convening The Land Relationships Super Collective, editing the book series, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education, and editing the journal, Critical Ethnic Studies. He is interested in the complex role of cities in global affairs: cities as sites of settler colonialism, as stages for empire, as places of resettlement and gentrification, and as always-already on Indigenous lands. *Sometimes he writes as la paperson, an avatar that irregularly calls."Decolonization is not a metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society Vol 1 No 1 (2012) tjb~ AND as decolonization and does not inherently offer any pathways that lead to decolonization. The 1AC is a radical counternarrative that reconfigures the terms of debate – refusal to conform to the rules of the game is necessary to destabilize structures of control. Thus the role of the ballot is to endorse the best strategy of epistemic disruption.Walter Mignolo 13, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies @ Duke, B.A. in philosophy @ Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Ph.D. @ Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 2013, "Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom," Theory, Culture and Society Vol 26 AND a detached observed but as the intervention of a de-colonial thinker. Their fantasies of extinction reflect settlers’ psychological investment in imagining the end of the world – fear of extinction is a settler paradox where settler colonialism continues to imagine its end in order to sustain itself through constant interventions – this symbolically redeems the settler and preserves their value at the expense of indigenous genocideDalley, 18—Assistant Professor of English at Daemen College (Hamish, "The deaths of settler colonialism: extinction as a metaphor of decolonization in contemporary settler literature," Settler Colonial Studies, 8:1, 30-46, dml) AND persist even beyond the moment of extinction they thought they wanted to arrive. The war machine of US Empire relies on the repetitive displacement of indigeneity as the ontological condition of its formation – their scenarios of militaristic conflict are rooted in the interpellation of indigeneity as the "savage", the "original enemy combatant" undeserving of life.Byrd 11 ~Jodi A., Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism, 2011, p. xxvii-xxviii GC~ AND States, the Indian is the original enemy combatant who cannot be grieved. | 1/13/22 |
JANFEB -- 1AC -- The Final Frontier v2Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart SP | Judge: Eric Deng "…America has always been a frontier nation. Now we must embrace the next frontier. America’s Manifest Destiny in the stars…Our ancestors braved the unknown, tamed the wilderness, settled the Wild West…vanquished tyranny and fascism, ushered the world to new heights of science and medicine, laid down the railroads, dug out the canals, raised up the skyscrapers. This is our glorious and magnificent inheritance. We are Americans. We are pioneers. We are the pathfinders. We settled the New World. We built the modern world…here, on this land, on this soil, on this continent… We look at tomorrow and see unlimited frontiers just waiting to be explored."(President Donald J. Trump, 2020 State of the Union address, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/politics/state-of-union-transcript.html, accessed 1-12-2022)nikki Settler colonialism is structured by the imperative of progress that demands the universal imposition of linear time and the reproduction of evacuated space – indigenous continuities of space and time are located simultaneously as the "blank slate" upon which the "perfect laboratory" can be constructed and the antagonistic pre-modern savage obstructing the emergence of settler modernity. From the Lakota nation massacred in service of industrial development in the Black Hills to the usage of the Galapagos as a microcosm for evolutionary study to the taking of Navajo lands for spaceflight testing to the indigenous Hawaiian protectors of Mauna Kea whose spiritual connections are being erased in favor of Western astronomy, the scientific terrain of outer space cannot be conceptualized apart from the ongoing process of imperialistic otherization that legitimates settler sovereignty in the present.Sammler and Lynch ’21 — (Katherine G Sammler, Casey R Lynch, 9-2-2021, "Apparatuses of observation and occupation: Settler colonialism and space science in Hawai'i," SAGE Journals, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758211042374, accessed 1-12-2022)nikki AND the geology of the Hawaiian landscape, and bodies of observer and observed. Outer space is a perpetual site of conquest and colonization – the latest iteration of the genocidal project of terra nullius aimed at the naturalization of settler sovereignty over the "untamed" and "unknown" geographies of space. The project of extraterrestrial appropriation is rooted in the eliminatory logics of settler colonialism that seek to reinstitute the dispossession of Manifest Destiny in the present at the expense of indigeneity.Smiles ’20 — postdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University. A citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, his ongoing research agenda is situated at the intersection of critical Indigenous geographies and political ecology, centered in the argument that tribal protection of remains, burial grounds, and more-than-human environments represents an effective form of ‘quotidian’ resistance against the settler colonial state. (Deondre Smiles, 10-26-2020, "The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space," Settler Colonial and Indigenous Geographies, Society and Space, https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-settler-logics-of-outer-space, accessed 1-11-2022)nikki AND space? What can be done to push back against these settler logics? The "evolutionary creed" of settler colonialism is replicated in the context of space – the settler drive to appropriate the natural world beyond Earth is founded in a belief in the intrinsic right to territorial expansion and imposition of colonial modes of worldmaking.Bowen ’16 — (Bowen, 7-23-2016, "Space: The Final Settler Colony," Two Frontiers: Settler Colonialism in California and Australia, University of Southern California, https://pwpaustralia2016.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/space-the-final-settler-colony/, accessed 1-11-2022)nikki AND system, let us hope we can leave such vices behind on Earth. Thus we affirm the decolonization of outer space in response to the injustice of the private appropriation of outer space — the affirmative forefonts engagement with indigenous epistemological orientations towards space that precede and exceed the confines of Western scientific rationalism – a remaking of outer space into a site of radical possibility through the lens of indigenous interrelationality.Smiles ’20 — postdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University. A citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, his ongoing research agenda is situated at the intersection of critical Indigenous geographies and political ecology, centered in the argument that tribal protection of remains, burial grounds, and more-than-human environments represents an effective form of ‘quotidian’ resistance against the settler colonial state. (Deondre Smiles, 10-26-2020, "The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space," Settler Colonial and Indigenous Geographies, Society and Space, https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-settler-logics-of-outer-space, accessed 1-11-2022)nikki AND a crucial moment where the settler state turns its gaze towards the same. The injection of indigenous cosmological understandings is uniquely key in academic spaces – academic deliberation over space is dominated by Western scientific thought that marginalizes alternative approaches to knowledge production.Taylor ’19 — producer for Science Friday (Christie Taylor, 9-6-2019, "Relearning The Star Stories Of Indigenous Peoples," Science Friday, https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/indigenous-peoples-astronomy/, accessed 1-11-2022)nikki AND It was a journey that led him, ultimately, to the stars. The affirmative is a form of particular decolonization that theorizes repatriation as necessitating specific and contextual solvency in varying spheres of indigenous life – the praxis of the 1AC provides a clear path forward into a materially and metaphysically decolonized future.Tuck and Yang 12 ~Eve Tuck is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. She is Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities. K. Wayne Yang writes about decolonization and everyday epic organizing, particularly from underneath ghetto colonialism, often with his frequent collaborator, Eve Tuck. Currently, they are convening The Land Relationships Super Collective, editing the book series, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education, and editing the journal, Critical Ethnic Studies. He is interested in the complex role of cities in global affairs: cities as sites of settler colonialism, as stages for empire, as places of resettlement and gentrification, and as always-already on Indigenous lands. *Sometimes he writes as la paperson, an avatar that irregularly calls."Decolonization is not a metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society Vol 1 No 1 (2012) tjb~ AND as decolonization and does not inherently offer any pathways that lead to decolonization. The 1AC is a radical counternarrative that reconfigures the terms of debate – refusal to conform to the rules of the game is necessary to destabilize structures of control. Thus the role of the ballot is to endorse the best strategy of epistemic disruption.Walter Mignolo 13, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies @ Duke, B.A. in philosophy @ Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Ph.D. @ Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 2013, "Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom," Theory, Culture and Society Vol 26 AND a detached observed but as the intervention of a de-colonial thinker. Their fantasies of extinction reflect settlers’ psychological investment in imagining the end of the world – fear of extinction is a settler paradox where settler colonialism continues to imagine its end in order to sustain itself through constant interventions – this symbolically redeems the settler and preserves their value at the expense of indigenous genocideDalley, 18—Assistant Professor of English at Daemen College (Hamish, "The deaths of settler colonialism: extinction as a metaphor of decolonization in contemporary settler literature," Settler Colonial Studies, 8:1, 30-46, dml) AND persist even beyond the moment of extinction they thought they wanted to arrive. The war machine of US Empire relies on the repetitive displacement of indigeneity as the ontological condition of its formation – their scenarios of militaristic conflict are rooted in the interpellation of indigeneity as the "savage", the "original enemy combatant" undeserving of life.Byrd 11 ~Jodi A., Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism, 2011, p. xxvii-xxviii GC~ AND States, the Indian is the original enemy combatant who cannot be grieved. | 1/15/22 |
NOVDEC -- 1AC -- ChrononormativityTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Tajaih Robinson The dead are living here.The generations upon generations of children, parents, brothers and sisters and siblings of all stripes and all colors.Whose lives are missing from history.Whose bodies are buried in unmarked graves, forgotten by time.They interrupt this debate with the lingering atemporality of their unwritten histories, unspoken narratives, and unrealized liberation.Freeman ’10 — Professor of English at UC Davis, began her teaching career at Sarah Lawrence College, coming to UC Davis in 2000. She specializes in American literature and gender/sexuality/queer studies, and her articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals ~Elizabeth Freeman, "Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories," Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe, Duke University Press, 2010, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1198v7z, accessed 4-16-2021~ nikki AND tess to resist the commodity-time of speedy manufacture and planned obsolescence. To conceptualize a just government we must first ask, "what is justice?"Justice is erasure, justice is generations of queer lives were sacrificed at the altar of state and capital.They died from the disease and died from going back into the closet and died for staying there and died for coming out.Justice is their ashes that rest on the lawn of the White House,Justice is the cops who raid our communities and entrap our bodies in our own codified criminality.Justice is constant deferral, because all you do, all you ever did and ever will do, is sit back and watch.To rehearse the narrative scripts of your resolution is to rehearse the grammars of our death.Mary Nardini Gang ’09 – (criminal queers from Milwaukee, "Toward the Queerest Insurrection," pg. 7-10) recut — nikki AND queer people is intrinsically tied to the annihilation of capitalism and the state. ====To define the category of the worker is to define the limits of life – the accumulation of labor and capital is parasitic on political economy of heteronormativity – any response to the resolutional questions demands that we engage the alterity of queerness.==== AND of power to provide the condition of possibility for capitalist accumulation and reproduction. Under the dominant regimes of heteronormativity the economic sphere is a constant site of precarity which locates queerness at the margins of a fundamentally capitalist world order – labor organizing itself is dependent on the constitutive otherization of queerness.Hollibaugh ‘15 – (Amber Hollibaugh, "Queer Precarity and the Myth of Gay Affluence," New Labor Forum , Fall 2015, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Fall 2015), pp. 18-27. Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24718618. (Hollibaugh is the former Chief Officer of Elder and LBTI Women's Services at Howard Brown Health Center in Chicago.~3~ She has been director of education, advocacy and community building at (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) (SAGE), a New York program dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender senior education, advocacy, and community organizing.~4~ In 1970, Hollibaugh was a leader in the Canadian movement for abortion rights.~5~ In 1978, she was a co-founder with Allan Bérubé and others of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project.~6~ In 1982, she was a speaker at the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality, a key event in what became known as the Feminist Sex Wars. Hollibaugh has written on the marginalization she experienced afterwards as a result of being a former sex worker and her involvement in the sadomasochism community.~7~ Hollibaugh was the director and co-producer with Gini Reticker of The Heart of the Matter, a 60-minute documentary film about the confusing messages women students receive about sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS.~8~ The film won the 1994 Sundance Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award; it premiered to a national audience on PBS.~9~~10~ In the 1990s, Hollibaugh argued that American liberalism was in disarray, but was looking to the Left for guidance in how to reshape itself.~11~ Stafford has analyzed her memoir My Dangerous Desires (2000) in terms of femme lesbian narratives.~12~ In 2002, Jenrose Fitzgerald discussed Hollibaugh and Singh's 1999 essay Sexuality, Labor, and the New Trade Unionism in Social Text. Fitzgerald says that their presentation of the relationship between sexual politics and the labor movement proposed a labor movement "that will take on immigration issues, racism, health care, and the nuances of economic inequality alongside more mainstream labor and 'gay rights' concerns."~13~ In Hollibaugh's writings on sexuality, she has declared that "there is no human hope without the promise of ecstasy."~14~ Meryl Altman says that Hollibaugh is "a powerful organizing speaker, a very fine incisive writer and a brilliant theorist."~15~ ) ingp AND and sexuality are central components of economic justice—from the very start. And so this resolution asks us to presume a world that has never and will never exist.To abstract away from queer realities, to build a world in negligent fantasy, to formulate advocacy on a level playing field untouched by the stain of queer life.But the dead are living here.What was once past is now present.Their ghosts haunt this space, this resolution, this debate.Thus we affirm queer time travel – an understanding of queer histories of violence, trauma, kinship, and hope as always already materializing in the present. The 1AC is a queer time machine through which we become unstuck in time, existing at the confluence of past, present, and future that lies beyond the productive regimes of chrononormativity. Our hauntological echo of the calls of the dead embraces queer collectivity across time and generates possibilities of life in moments outside the sequence.Ghan ‘20 — queer Jewish writer, editor, and scholar based as a settler in Tkaronto/Toronto, site of Treaty 13 and Williams Treaty territory. He has been an editor at The Spectatorial, The Goose, The Hart House Review, The White Wall Review, and Terse Journal. He has an HBA from the University of Toronto where he graduated with distinction and an MA in English Literature from Ryerson University’s Literature of Modernity program ~Ben Berman Ghan, 1-1-2020, "Queer Time Machines: Hauntologies of Literature", Terse Journal, https://tersejournal.com/2020/01/01/queer-time-machines-hauntologies-of-literature-by-ben-berman-ghan/, accessed 4-15-2021~ nikki AND its existence, and its art, queerness becomes a rebellious time machine. So when the 1NC gets up and says "debate is a game" you should ask yourself "for who?"For us, debate is a constant site of erasure.There is no fiat, no radical politics, no legal advocacy until we break the compulsory silence of civil society.The 1AC is a radical counternarrative that reconfigures the terms of debate – refusal to conform to the rules of the game is necessary to destabilize structures of control. Thus the role of the ballot is to endorse the best strategy of epistemic disruption.Walter Mignolo 13, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies @ Duke, B.A. in philosophy @ Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Ph.D. @ Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 2013, "Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom," Theory, Culture and Society Vol 26 AND a detached observed but as the intervention of a de-colonial thinker. The performative intervention of the 1AC is a prerequisite to the political – effectual macropolitical change must be guided by embodied queer resistance.Traber ’18 (Becca Traber, 01-17-2018, "Fiat and Radical Politics by Becca Traber," NSD Update, http://nsdupdate.com/2018/fiat-and-radical-politics-by-becca-traber/,1-8-2021) recut-nikki, bracketed for gendered language AND plan will do what it claims to do without horrible externalities. | 11/20/21 |
SEPOCT -- 1AC -- Colonial CapitalismTournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Independent WW | Judge: Ronak Ahuja The global intellectual property regime functions to preserve imperial hegemony and accumulative neoliberalism and sanctions the systematic theft of essential medical resources from non-Western nations — this necessitates structural violence on an international scale.Vanni ’21 — Dr. Vanni obtained both her PhD and LLM degrees in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick, where her doctoral thesis was awarded the 2018 SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law. She has BA(Hons) in International Relations and Politics from Keele University, where was awarded the Vice-Chancellor Partial Scholarship (2004-2007). Dr. Vanni currently teaches the undergraduate and postgraduate modules in intellectual property law (Amaka Vanni, 3-23-2021, "On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," TWAILR, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/, accessed 8-24-2021) nikki AND rising, making essential medicines inaccessible for millions of people around the world. Intellectual property is rooted in the universal exportation of the Western liberal philosophical tradition that idealizes private property arrangements – patent law is an extension of cultural imperialism invested in the preservation of whiteness at the expense of the global South.Roy ’16 — Professor Alpana Roy is the Dean of Law at the University of Waikato, a legal academic and practitioner, and an accredited mediator. Her areas of research expertise include intellectual property and information technology (IT) law, internet and domain name law, traditional and Indigenous knowledge, and alternative dispute resolutionAlpana Roy, 6-29-2016, "Copyright: A Colonial Doctrine in a Postcolonial Age," COPYRIGHT REPORTER, Vol. 26, No. 4, December 2008: 112-134, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract'id=2802005, accessed 8-24-2021) nikki AND 14 of the TRIPS Agreement. These provisions are discussed briefl y below. Legal agreements such as TRIPS are grounded in the construction of intellectual property regulations as enlightened safeguards against the primitive savagery of indigenous conceptualizations of property – international legal frameworks are an ethically bankrupt starting point for change.Rahmatian ’10 — Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Glasgow (Andreas Rahmatian, 6-23-2010, "Neo-Colonial Aspects of Global Intellectual Property Protection," The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 40-74, 2010, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract'id=1629228, accessed 8-27-2021) nikki —bracketed for ableist language AND and Berne Conventions in the much more belligerent atmosphere of the nineteenth century. International institutions such as the WTO find their origins in the domination of Western imperial states and corporations – the resolution itself is indebted to the perpetuation of racialized global hierarches through the exportation of finance capitalism.Valdes and Cho 11 (Francisco, Law Prof @ U of Miami, and Sumi, Law Prof @ DePaul, July 2011, "COMMENTARY: CRITICAL RACE THEORY: A COMMEMORATION: RESPONSE: Critical Race Materialism: Theorizing Justice in the Wake of Global Neoliberalism", Connecticut Law Review 43 Conn. L. Rev. 1513) AND "traditional" neocolonial identity politics than by principled or colorblind justice. n182 Vaccine colonialism is the latest iteration of this systemic dysfunction – intellectual property regulations are a channel of imperialism that have enabled hegemonic global powers to control vaccine access, leaving developing nations at the mercy of the pandemic.Vanni ’21 — Dr. Vanni obtained both her PhD and LLM degrees in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick, where her doctoral thesis was awarded the 2018 SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law. She has BA(Hons) in International Relations and Politics from Keele University, where was awarded the Vice-Chancellor Partial Scholarship (2004-2007). Dr. Vanni currently teaches the undergraduate and postgraduate modules in intellectual property law (Amaka Vanni, 3-23-2021, "On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," TWAILR, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/, accessed 8-24-2021) nikki AND . The system is functioning exactly as it is set up to do. Reformism is not emancipatory but instead contributes to the iterative perfection of colonial capitalism – the transformative potential of legal change is circumscribed by hegemonic power structures that are embedded in international political systems.Vanni ’21 — Dr. Vanni obtained both her PhD and LLM degrees in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick, where her doctoral thesis was awarded the 2018 SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law. She has BA(Hons) in International Relations and Politics from Keele University, where was awarded the Vice-Chancellor Partial Scholarship (2004-2007). Dr. Vanni currently teaches the undergraduate and postgraduate modules in intellectual property law (Amaka Vanni, 3-23-2021, "On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," TWAILR, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/, accessed 8-24-2021) nikki AND not wait for the next crisis to learn the lessons from this crisis. Thus we affirm the decolonization of intellectual property — the 1AC is a critical intervention into the archives of the resolution that highlights and deconstructs the asymmetrical power relations inherent to neoliberal colonialism.Pedagogical decolonization is uniquely key – our interrogation of colonial knowledge production disrupts the dominance of Eurocentric political literature within academia – this is a prerequisite to legal change.Makoni ’17 — Munyaradzi Makoni is a freelance science journalist from Zimbabwe. He was Canada’s International Development Research Centre-Research Africa science journalism fellow in 2012. His journalism work has appeared in various media organizations including Africa Renewal, Forskning and Framsteg, Intellectual Property Watch, IPS, SciDev.net, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and University World News among others. (Munyaradzi Makoni, 1-20-2017, "Urgent need to decolonise intellectual property curricula," University World News, https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20170119072916504, accessed 8-29-2021) nikki AND invited to personally or virtually lead some of the seminars in the future. The 1AC is a radical reconfiguration of the terms of debate that calls into question modern understandings of property within academia – refusal to conform to the rules of the game is necessary to destabilize structures of control.Walter Mignolo 13, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies @ Duke, B.A. in philosophy @ Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Ph.D. @ Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 2013, "Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom," Theory, Culture and Society Vol 26 AND a detached observed but as the intervention of a de-colonial thinker. The role of debate is to disrupt colonial logics that reproduce epistemic and material violence – centering critical indigenous scholarship is key to resist epistemic abstraction and erasure. We control the uniqueness debate as academic institutions are saturated with anti-indigenous sentimentality now – resistance is the only ethical demand your ballot should be oriented towards.Battiste Et Al. 2005 (Marie, Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, "THINKING PLACE: ANIMATING the INDIGENOUS HUMANITIES in EDUCATION", published in the AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL of INDIGENOUS EDUCATION, Volume 34, 2005) AND critique comes to share "its" space with Indigenous place and capacity. Decolonial praxis is incompatible with politically centered methodologies – the injection of critical scholarship into policymaking is a move to colonial instrumentalization that dilutes and resignifies indigenous thought to bolster imperialism.Bolton and Minor ’16 — (Michael Bolton, Associate Professor of Political Science, Pace University, Elizabeth Minor, Visiting Research Scholar @ Jindal school of international affairs, "The Discursive Turn Arrives in Turtle Bay: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’ Operationalization of Critical IR Theories," https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1758-5899.12343) AND changes (cf. Jeffrey, 2013, pp. 107–131). | 9/5/21 |
SEPOCT -- 1AC -- Colonial Capitalism v2Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Ishan Rereddy The global intellectual property regime functions to preserve imperial hegemony and accumulative neoliberalism and sanctions the systematic theft of essential medical resources from non-Western nations — this necessitates structural violence on an international scale.Vanni ’21 — Dr. Vanni obtained both her PhD and LLM degrees in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick, where her doctoral thesis was awarded the 2018 SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law. She has BA(Hons) in International Relations and Politics from Keele University, where was awarded the Vice-Chancellor Partial Scholarship (2004-2007). Dr. Vanni currently teaches the undergraduate and postgraduate modules in intellectual property law (Amaka Vanni, 3-23-2021, "On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," TWAILR, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/, accessed 8-24-2021) nikki AND rising, making essential medicines inaccessible for millions of people around the world. Intellectual property is rooted in the universal exportation of the Western liberal philosophical tradition that idealizes private property arrangements – patent law is an extension of cultural imperialism invested in the preservation of whiteness at the expense of the global South.Roy ’16 — Professor Alpana Roy is the Dean of Law at the University of Waikato, a legal academic and practitioner, and an accredited mediator. Her areas of research expertise include intellectual property and information technology (IT) law, internet and domain name law, traditional and Indigenous knowledge, and alternative dispute resolutionAlpana Roy, 6-29-2016, "Copyright: A Colonial Doctrine in a Postcolonial Age," COPYRIGHT REPORTER, Vol. 26, No. 4, December 2008: 112-134, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract'id=2802005, accessed 8-24-2021) nikki AND 14 of the TRIPS Agreement. These provisions are discussed briefl y below. Legal agreements such as TRIPS are grounded in the construction of intellectual property regulations as enlightened safeguards against the primitive savagery of indigenous conceptualizations of property – international legal frameworks are an ethically bankrupt starting point for change.Rahmatian ’10 — Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Glasgow (Andreas Rahmatian, 6-23-2010, "Neo-Colonial Aspects of Global Intellectual Property Protection," The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 40-74, 2010, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract'id=1629228, accessed 8-27-2021) nikki —bracketed for ableist language AND and Berne Conventions in the much more belligerent atmosphere of the nineteenth century. International institutions such as the WTO find their origins in the domination of Western imperial states and corporations – the resolution itself is indebted to the perpetuation of racialized global hierarches through the exportation of finance capitalism.Valdes and Cho 11 (Francisco, Law Prof @ U of Miami, and Sumi, Law Prof @ DePaul, July 2011, "COMMENTARY: CRITICAL RACE THEORY: A COMMEMORATION: RESPONSE: Critical Race Materialism: Theorizing Justice in the Wake of Global Neoliberalism", Connecticut Law Review 43 Conn. L. Rev. 1513) AND "traditional" neocolonial identity politics than by principled or colorblind justice. n182 Reformism is not emancipatory but instead contributes to the iterative perfection of colonial capitalism – the transformative potential of legal change is circumscribed by hegemonic power structures that are embedded in international political systems.Vanni ’21 — Dr. Vanni obtained both her PhD and LLM degrees in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick, where her doctoral thesis was awarded the 2018 SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law. She has BA(Hons) in International Relations and Politics from Keele University, where was awarded the Vice-Chancellor Partial Scholarship (2004-2007). Dr. Vanni currently teaches the undergraduate and postgraduate modules in intellectual property law (Amaka Vanni, 3-23-2021, "On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," TWAILR, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/, accessed 8-24-2021) nikki AND not wait for the next crisis to learn the lessons from this crisis. Thus we affirm the decolonization of intellectual property — the 1AC is a critical intervention into the archives of the resolution that highlights and deconstructs the asymmetrical power relations inherent to neoliberal colonialism.Decolonization must begin on the level of pedagogy – our interrogation of colonial knowledge production disrupts the dominance of Eurocentric political literature within academia – this is a prerequisite to legal change.Makoni ’17 — Munyaradzi Makoni is a freelance science journalist from Zimbabwe. He was Canada’s International Development Research Centre-Research Africa science journalism fellow in 2012. His journalism work has appeared in various media organizations including Africa Renewal, Forskning and Framsteg, Intellectual Property Watch, IPS, SciDev.net, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and University World News among others. (Munyaradzi Makoni, 1-20-2017, "Urgent need to decolonise intellectual property curricula," University World News, https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20170119072916504, accessed 8-29-2021) nikki AND invited to personally or virtually lead some of the seminars in the future. The praxis of the 1AC is informed by the material politics of global indigenous movements oriented towards the overthrow of dispossessive neoliberalism and the multicultural assimilation of traditional knowledge systemsJodi Melamed, 2011 ("Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism, associate professor of English and Africana Studies @ Marquette University , P181- p186)pk AND world-encompassing circulation of meaning, value, relationality, and matter. The 1AC is a radical reconfiguration of the terms of debate that calls into question modern understandings of property within academia – refusal to conform to the rules of the game is necessary to destabilize structures of control.Walter Mignolo 13, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies @ Duke, B.A. in philosophy @ Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Ph.D. @ Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 2013, "Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom," Theory, Culture and Society Vol 26 AND a detached observed but as the intervention of a de-colonial thinker. The role of debate is to disrupt colonial logics that reproduce epistemic and material violence – centering critical indigenous scholarship is key to resist epistemic abstraction and erasure. We control the uniqueness debate as academic institutions are saturated with anti-indigenous sentimentality now – resistance is the only ethical demand your ballot should be oriented towards.Battiste Et Al. 2005 (Marie, Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, "THINKING PLACE: ANIMATING the INDIGENOUS HUMANITIES in EDUCATION", published in the AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL of INDIGENOUS EDUCATION, Volume 34, 2005) AND critique comes to share "its" space with Indigenous place and capacity. Decolonial praxis is incompatible with politically centered methodologies – the injection of critical scholarship into policymaking is a move to colonial instrumentalization that dilutes and resignifies indigenous thought to bolster imperialism.Bolton and Minor ’16 — (Michael Bolton, Associate Professor of Political Science, Pace University, Elizabeth Minor, Visiting Research Scholar @ Jindal school of international affairs, "The Discursive Turn Arrives in Turtle Bay: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’ Operationalization of Critical IR Theories," https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1758-5899.12343) AND changes (cf. Jeffrey, 2013, pp. 107–131). | 9/20/21 |
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