Season 2, Episode 4 | Every Child Born Full

In this episode, a first in our series on Undoing Settler-Colonialism, we speak with Hi’ilani Shibata and Kiliona, educators at Ka Waihona o ka Na’auao in Nānākuli on the Leeward Coast of O’ahu, Hawai’i. They talk story about their practices of teaching with Indigenous pedagogies, teaching history through multiple perspectives, and learning through story in relationship with the land and each other. Laquesha Sanders shares Part 3 of our student debt series, this time on HBCUs. Capital City PCS’s now graduated seniors Natasha, Nelly, and Niya talk with each other about their birding experiences. And, of course, we’re asking: How are you disrupting settler colonial practices in yourself, in your classroom, in your schools?

Transcription (Finalized Friday, Mar. 3, 2023)

NTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldúa
Rest is Resistance, Tricia Hersey
Indigenous knowledges and the Story of the Bean, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Emma Maughan
“Praise Song for Oceania”, Craig Santos Perez
Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco, Savannah Shange
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, Audre Lorde
“Why super-strict classrooms are in vogue in Britain,” The Economist

MUSIC

“Hanalei Moon” and “Kaulana na pua,” Kiliona
“Belong,”  Prod. Riddiman
“Escape,” Prod. Aki
“Groove Theory,” Prod. ae beats
Dancing on Desks Theme song | composed and arranged by Mara Johnson and Elliott Wilkes

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