Resistance and Resurgence of the Métis

The red that dies the maple leaf

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. On April 14, 2016, Grandma emailed me; the subject read: “Status.” That day, in Daniels vs. Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada legally granted Indian status to all non-status Indians and Métis. Grandma is not Métis, but I am. ...
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Resistance and Resurgence of the Métis

Donald Trump’s Reductio Ad Penis

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. “Look at those hands; are they small hands?” the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination Donald Trump said during the debate on March 3, 2016. Trump added, “And, he referred to my hands -- ‘if they’re small, something else ...
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Donald Trump’s Reductio Ad Penis

Which Enlightenment for Which Primitives?

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. In the transition from primitive to enlightened society, “[j]ustice gives way to law,” the subsumption of primitive man’s just equilibrium under the capitalist production of surplus as legislated by the law of profit (Horkheimer, 12). In primitive society ...
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Which Enlightenment for Which Primitives?