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Better living through birding : notes from a Black man in the natural world
\"Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. When birdwatching in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old. But when a routine encounter with a dog-walker escalates age old racial tensions, Cooper's viral video of the incident would send shockwaves through the nation. In Better Living Through Birding, Cooper tells the story of his extraordinary life leading up to the now-infamous encounter in Central Park and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him, in the most uncanny of ways, to be a gay, Black man in American today. From sharpened senses that work just as well in a protest as in a park, to what a bird like the Common Grackle can teach us about self-acceptance, Better Living Through Birding exults in the pleasures of a life lived in pursuit of the natural world and invites you to discover your own. Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and primer on the art of birding, this is Cooper's story of learning to claim and defend space for himself and others like him, from his days as a writer for Marvel Comics, where Cooper introduced the first gay storyline, to vivid and life-changing birding expeditions through Africa, Australia, the Americas and the Himalayas. Better Living Through Birding is Cooper's invitation into the wonderful world of birds, and what they can teach us about life, if only we would stop and listen\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Next steps in dismantling discrimination: Lessons from ecology and conservation science
Ecology, conservation, and other scientific disciplines have histories built on the oppression of marginalized groups of people. Modern day discrimination continues in these fields and there is renewed interest in dismantling these system of oppression. In this paper, we offer some examples of historical events which have shaped the field and argue that reckoning with colonial histories is part of the process to dismantle discrimination and achieve equity and inclusion. We discuss ways forward including incorporating different knowledge systems and reflecting on one's own biases and privilege. To truly achieve fields of science which are just, diverse, and equitable will be one of our greatest challenges, but one that is necessary to protect our environment, an endeavor which cannot be detangled from societal injustices.
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Racelighting Black, Indigenous and People of Color in education: a conceptual framework
PurposeThis article provides an overviews of the concept of racelighting. Racelighting is “is an act of psychological manipulation where Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) receive racial messages that lead them to second-guess their lived experiences with racism”Design/methodology/approachThis conceptual paper articulates four primary ways that racelighting manifests in the lives and experiences of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC).FindingsThere are four common messages that often lead to racelighting: stereotype advancement, resistive actions, inauthentic allyship and misrepresenting the past.Originality/valueWhile much has been written about gaslighting, few frameworks articulate how gaslighting occurs in a racialized context.
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“The Fireworks Next Time”: The Intersections of Place-Making, Play, and Protest in NYC in Summer 2020
A simultaneous pandemic and political uprising offer an opportunity to reinterpret that struggle.4 It is in this context of a national reckoning with the ongoing refusal to listen—the challenges to the deep, persistent, and powerful apparatus for converting speech into noise, protest into disruption—that we have to understand the responses to the fireworks that erupted night after night in numerous cities throughout June and July. The fireworks not only illuminated how the character of a neighborhood is aural as much as visual—what R. Murray Schafer called “soundmarks” establish place as much as landmarks do—but also how the struggle over gentrification often takes place in the terrain of the aural and thus can remain invisible to those just visiting these neighborhoods.5 This case study also aims to contribute to an understanding of the shifting soundscape of Brooklyn—not just during the pandemic, but also as a result of the longer term processes of displacement and contestation that has so altered the character of many neighborhoods, including my own, Ditmas Park. Under the Rocket’s Red Glare: Fireworks and the Implosion of Meaning, Social Justice, and Sound The protests this past summer—and the Black Lives Matter movement in general—were about being heard and taken seriously such that American common sense assumptions about safety, the value of life, and knowledge of history could be rewritten. In the first few days, some protestors burned police cars, broke shop windows, and generally refused to show the respect for authority and property that passes for order and safety in U.S. society.8 Although cable news channels savored the highly dramatic video of these incidents and played them on repeat, commentators on MSNBC and CNN did not unequivocally denounce the damage to property.
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White woman who called 911 on Black birdwatcher charged for second call falsely claiming assault
Today, prosecutors revealed Miss Cooper made a second 911 call claiming he tried to assault her and formally charged her in an arraignment held virtually with a criminal misdemeanor for falsely reporting an incident to police. In court, prosecutors say Miss Cooper admitted to police under questioning that at no time did the man, later identified as Christian Cooper, try to assault her.
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