Nov 2024 Ways to Disrupt Whiteness

We may need to be pro-active to stay sane while the results of the 2024 election are decided. Maybe some of the following events will help us IMAGINE a better future, STRATEGIZE, and develop STAMINA, the three ingredients for a successful movement according to Rep. Ayanna Pressley.

I got some feedback about attending these events that I want to share. There are ways to do them that disrupt whiteness and ways that don’t. I don’t have all the answers but some feedback I’ve gotten is to make sure that we are intending to honor and learn about other cultures and ways of being in the world, to notice whether and how cultural traditions have been commodified to suit the white dominant and/or capitalist culture, to connect with people who don’t look like us in a real and meaningful way, to reflect on what the experience teaches us about ourselves and the dominant white culture, to learn about the contribution, struggle, beauty and humanity of people from other cultures, and discuss with those we go with the importance and the connection of the event to the bigger picture of disrupting whiteness, even more so if we are bringing children. Some ways that uphold the white dominant culture are to attend these merely as a diversity experience or to put another culture on display as exotic or “other”. If you have other thoughts about this please share with me. There may be a way to leave a comment on this post.

I haven’t listed all the CIty of Houston City Council meetings or the Harris County Commissioner’s Court meetings. Please look them up and sign up to speak or just listen.

Nov 1 – ? Complete this online survey regarding Houston Police Department

November 1 – ? Save the Trees Act petition

November 1 LULAC Latins United Against Racism: Racism is not Comedy petition

November 1 Candidate Karaoke with Pure Justice. 7-10PM at Spotlight Karaoke.

November 1 Calavera con Calavera at Miller Outdoor Theater

Nov 1-3 Red Nation International Film Festival (virtual portion)

November 1 – Nov 9 Agatha Babino: a Narrative of the Formerly Enslaved exhibit at Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park

November 1 – Nov 9 Straight Flexin’, no Plexin’ – a HipHop exhibit at Hiram Clarke Multi-Service Center, presented by Rice CERCL

November 1-12 HISD Title I High Schools Essay Contest Rice CERCL

November 1-23 Box 13 Artspace exhibits in East End

November 1 – Nov 16 Diverseworks The River on Fire

November 1 – January 5 Facing Survival David Kassa at Holocaust Museum Houston

November 1 – February 9 Project Row Houses Round 57 Biennial Southern Survey Biennial exhibition

November 1 – February 23 Bob Bullock Museum (Austin) exhibit about the Rosenwald schools. Book discussion November 9.

November 2 Screening of Aida Returns at Arab American Cultural Center

November 2 Voices of Houston The Escape Concert of Negro Spirituals at Grace Presbyterian Church

November 2 Sharing the Harvest Festival at Shrine of the Black Madonna

November 2 Dia de los Muertos Procession – Casa Ramirez in the Heights

November 2 Dia de los Muertos East End Houston

November 3 Rising Jazz Stars – Da Camera (series)

November 5 – Vote in the General Election. Plan to vote from the top of the ballot to the bottom. In Harris County the ballot has over 90 positions to fill plus Propositions for HISD (vote no) and Harris County (vote yes).

November 7 Undivided Book launch at Rice Fondren Library, produced by Rothko Chapel and Rice CERCL

November 7-17 Houston Cinema Arts Festival will feature a wide variety of curated feature films with a focus on the diverse cultural community of Houston, Texas.

November 8-10 Art and Climate Justice Symposium

Nov 8-10 It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing! at the Houston Symphony

November 9 and every Saturday in November virtual Coming to the Table National virtual group

November 9 virtual SURJ Austin Unlearning Circle

November 9 Equality Texas Gala

November 9 Latina Market at the Esplanade on Navigation

November 9 Terence Blanchard in concert at UH 50th anniversary of UH Moore’s School Symphony

November 9 Cognitive Justice Hiram Clarke Peace Pop-Up

November 9 San Antonio Yanaguana Indian Arts Festival

November 9-10 11th annual Islamic Arts Festival

November 9-10 Trader’s Village Pow Wow

November 9-13 Veteran’s Day and Camp Logan events at Buffalo Soldiers National Museum

November 10 Intersex Day of Solidarity

November 10 virtual Friends Peace Teams Toward Truth and Healing: How Churches Face Accountability for their Indian Boarding Schools

November 12 virtual or in person COH Public Safety Committee meeting

November 12 virtual book discussion The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy

November 12 virtual info session for the Ukombozi Fellowship, a Houston-based anti-racist organizing workshop

November 12 Harris County Commissioners Court meeting

November 12 virtual panel discussion Harm Reduction in Red States

November 13-19 Transgender Awareness Week

November 14 Vincent Valdez exhibit opens at CAMH.

November 14 CERCL film screening of the documentary gOD-Talk about how Black millenials navigate faith

November 14 Braver Angels Families and Politics

November 15-December 22 Ensemble Theater the 12 Ways of Christmas

November 16 History Harvest Day: Memorias of the Chicano/a Movement

November 16 HATCH Youth Action Summit at the Montrose Center

November 16 virtual Kinship Wisdom Indigenous teachings for collective well-being.

November 19 Screening of the film Black Indians at the Center for the Healing of Racism

November 21 Covenant House Sleep Out to end youth homelessness

November 21 The Karankawas: Culture and Myth Busting with Dr Tim Seiter (lunch & learn)

November 22-23 Fresh Arts Summit at UHD

November 23 Austin Powwow

November 26 Annual TGiving Trans Thanksgiving

November 26 State of Harris County please look it up.

November 1 – December 15 Apply for the virtual Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizer Training.

FUTURE HAPPENINGS TO PLAN FOR NOW

December 5 Winter with Woori Juntos 6:00PM at Seoul Garden

December 13 Houston Climate Movement 2024 Community Partner Awards

January 12 Rising Jazz Stars – Da Camera (series)

January 16 Killer Mike & the Mighty Midnight Revival at the Houston Symphony

January next virtual cohort of Texas Abortion Advocacy Network

READING VIEWING LISTENING FOR NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

Fiction – Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oskar Hoseah, There There by Tommy Orange, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, anything by Louise Erdrich, Native American Renaissance

Nonfiction – Indigenous People’s History of the United States, Blackfoot Physics, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk

Memoir – Arapahoe Libraries list, List for Young Adults

Poetry – When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

For children – Blog American Indians in Children’s Literature

Podcast – Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery. Tongue Unbroken, Toasted Sister, Unreserved, All My Relations, American Indian Language Development Institute Podcast, Voices from the Land, The Red Nation Podcast, Native Opinion: An American Indian Perspective, Taken: Native Boarding Schools in America, American Genocide, AMDG,