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Tournament: Any | Round: Quads | Opponent: Any | Judge: Facebook is probably the fastest/easiest/best way to contact me https://www.facebook.com/michelleli5520
If not, you can email me michelleli@hunterschools.org but I don't really check my email
I reserve the right to read anything on my teammates' wiki's (although I probs won't)
10/16/16
JF Costumes PIK
Tournament: Newark | Round: Octas | Opponent: Scarsdale ZG | Judge: Bailey Rung, Linnea Warburton, Sijin Choi To be Asian-American... Awards last night.
The AFF gives students and administration the right to commodify and appropriate marginalized cultures, exemplified in offensive Halloween costumes such as Native American headdresses. When groups try to raise awareness of cultural appropriation, they are shut down by the justification of free speech – turns the AFF since groups use “free speech” to prevent the oppressed from speaking out. Jake New, 2016. (“Costume Choices.” Jake New, Reporter, covers student life and athletics for Inside Higher Ed. He joined the publication in June 2014 after writing for the Chronicle of Higher Education and covering education technology for eCampus News. For his work at the Chronicle covering legal disputes between academic publishers and critical librarians, he was awarded the David W. Miller Award for Young Journalists. His work has also appeared in the Bloomington Herald-Times, Indianapolis Monthly, Slate, PBS, Times Higher Education and the Australian. Jake studied journalism at Indiana University, where he was editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/10/27/colleges-prepare-halloween-advising-students-steer-clear-offensive-costumes. Accessed 12/27/16.) ML It happens on... and the employee.
Costumes are treated as speech under the First Amendment. Universities cannot punish groups, even if their actions convey offensive messages. Conor Friedersdorf summarizes Volokh in, 2015. (“The Anti-Free Speech Movement at UCLA.” Staff writer at The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/the-anti-free-speech-movement-at-ucla/410638/. Accessed 12/27/16.) ML UCLA law professor... choose their speech.
Cultural appropriation on college campuses is modern-day colonialization of marginalized cultures. Traditions are transformed and distorted. Asa Henderson, 2015. (RITES OF PASSAGE, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, AND INITIATION IN THE WESTERN TRADITION.” Asa Henderson is the director of Men's Eagle Council's Journey to Manhood project, an online resource to help teenage boys navigate the transition to adulthood. http://youthpassageways.org/blog/2015/08/19/rites-of-passage-cultural-appropriation-and-initiation-in-the-western-tradition/. Accessed 12/28/16.) ML Nevertheless, I’ll make... knowledge of another.
Thus the ALT is the AFF actors will restrict constitutionally protected speech in the case of cultural costumes.
Universities should have specific costume protocols, in which they give guidelines for which costumes will be restricted. Thomas D. Williams, 2016 clarifies. (“Universities Ban Politically Incorrect Halloween Costumes. Ph.D. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/22/universities-ban-politically-incorrect-halloween-costumes/. Accessed 12/28/16.) ML Note: Williams does not necessarily agree with the ALT, but summarizes it In a latest... and Native Americans.
The alternative is key to challenging the commodification of non-Western cultures. Cultural appropriation transforms spaces in which white people dance and celebrate in skull faces and costumes, but indigenous lives are forgotten and cast aside. Aya de Leon, 2014 explains with Halloween and Day of the Dead. (“Dear White People/Queridos Gringos: You Want Our Culture But You Don’t Want Us – Stop Colonizing The Day Of The Dead.” Author. https://ayadeleon.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/dear-white-peoplequeridos-gringos-you-want-our-culture-but-you-dont-want-us-stop-colonizing-the-day-of-the-dead/. Accessed 12/28/16.) ML Let me continue... these themed parties.
The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best combats Western superiority and liberates marginalized groups
Understanding the discourse surrounding Western superiority in an educational setting is necessary for any critical analysis we start. Tikly In the above... constructed and contested.
Narratives are relevant in all contexts; my performance uniquely allows us to examine existing oppressive ideologies and change them. Patrick Reinsborough and Doyle Canning. (“Theory: Narrative Power Analysis.” Patrick Reinsborough is a strategist, organizer and creative provocateur with over twenty years of experience campaigning for peace, justice, indigenous rights and ecological sanity. Patrick has helped organize countless creative interventions, including mass direct actions that shut down the Seattle WTO meeting in 1999 and protested the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. He is the author of numerous essays on social change theory and practice, including co-writing Re:Imagining Change (PM Press 2010). He is the co-founder of the Center for Story-based Strategy (formerly known as smartMeme), a movement support organization which harnesses the power of narrative for fundamental social change. He lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay area. Doyle Canning was struck by a tear gas canister in the streets of Seattle in 1999, and has never been the same since. She is a creative strategist with a deep commitment to building broad-based movements for social justice and an ecological future. Doyle is a co-founder of the Center for Story-based Strategy (formerly known as smartMeme). She delivers training, coaching, facilitation and framing to high-impact networks who are taking on greedy corporations, corrupt politicians, racist laws and polluting policies. Doyle is co-author of Re:Imagining Change with Patrick Reinsborough. She lives with her husband in Boston, where she enjoys practicing yoga, cooking, and making music. Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution. http://beautifultrouble.org/theory/narrative-power-analysis/) ML In Sum All... fairer, freer world.
1/10/17
JF Costumes PIK v2
Tournament: Lexington | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep JW | Judge: Christian Quiroz To be Asian-American... Awards last night.
The AFF gives students and administration the right to commodify and appropriate marginalized cultures, exemplified in offensive Halloween costumes such as Native American headdresses. When groups try to raise awareness of cultural appropriation, they are shut down by the justification of free speech – turns the AFF since groups use “free speech” to prevent the oppressed from speaking out. Jake New, 2016. (“Costume Choices.” Jake New, Reporter, covers student life and athletics for Inside Higher Ed. He joined the publication in June 2014 after writing for the Chronicle of Higher Education and covering education technology for eCampus News. For his work at the Chronicle covering legal disputes between academic publishers and critical librarians, he was awarded the David W. Miller Award for Young Journalists. His work has also appeared in the Bloomington Herald-Times, Indianapolis Monthly, Slate, PBS, Times Higher Education and the Australian. Jake studied journalism at Indiana University, where he was editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/10/27/colleges-prepare-halloween-advising-students-steer-clear-offensive-costumes. Accessed 12/27/16.) ML It happens on... and the employee.
Specific links to the AC:
Analytic 2. Analytic 3. Analytic 4. Analytic
Costumes are treated as speech under the First Amendment. Universities cannot punish groups, even if their actions convey offensive messages. Conor Friedersdorf summarizes Volokh in, 2015. (“The Anti-Free Speech Movement at UCLA.” Staff writer at The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/the-anti-free-speech-movement-at-ucla/410638/. Accessed 12/27/16.) ML UCLA law professor... choose their speech.
Cultural appropriation on college campuses is modern-day colonialization of marginalized cultures. Traditions are transformed and distorted. Asa Henderson, 2015. (RITES OF PASSAGE, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, AND INITIATION IN THE WESTERN TRADITION.” Asa Henderson is the director of Men's Eagle Council's Journey to Manhood project, an online resource to help teenage boys navigate the transition to adulthood. http://youthpassageways.org/blog/2015/08/19/rites-of-passage-cultural-appropriation-and-initiation-in-the-western-tradition/. Accessed 12/28/16.) ML Nevertheless, I’ll make... knowledge of another.
Thus the ALT is the AFF actors will restrict constitutionally protected speech in the case of cultural costumes.
Universities should have specific costume protocols, in which they give guidelines for which costumes will be restricted. Thomas D. Williams, 2016 clarifies. (“Universities Ban Politically Incorrect Halloween Costumes. Ph.D. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/22/universities-ban-politically-incorrect-halloween-costumes/. Accessed 12/28/16.) ML Note: Williams does not necessarily agree with the ALT, but summarizes it In a latest... and Native Americans.
The alternative is key to challenging the commodification of non-Western cultures. Cultural appropriation transforms spaces in which white people dance and celebrate in skull faces and costumes, but indigenous lives are forgotten and cast aside. Aya de Leon, 2014 explains with Halloween and Day of the Dead. (“Dear White People/Queridos Gringos: You Want Our Culture But You Don’t Want Us – Stop Colonizing The Day Of The Dead.” Author. https://ayadeleon.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/dear-white-peoplequeridos-gringos-you-want-our-culture-but-you-dont-want-us-stop-colonizing-the-day-of-the-dead/. Accessed 12/28/16.) ML Let me continue... these themed parties.
Avoiding co-option and embracing the individuality of cultures is key to deconstructing identities -- turns the AC's arguments about fluidity of identity. Robert S. Chang, 1993. (“Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-structuralism, and Narrative Space.” Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons. Accesed 11/11/16. 1320-1322) ML We can use... come in stages.
The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best combats Western superiority and liberates marginalized groups
Understanding the discourse surrounding Western superiority in an educational setting is necessary for any critical analysis we start. Tikly In the above... constructed and contested.
Narratives are relevant in all contexts; my performance uniquely allows us to examine existing oppressive ideologies and change them. Patrick Reinsborough and Doyle Canning. (“Theory: Narrative Power Analysis.” Patrick Reinsborough is a strategist, organizer and creative provocateur with over twenty years of experience campaigning for peace, justice, indigenous rights and ecological sanity. Patrick has helped organize countless creative interventions, including mass direct actions that shut down the Seattle WTO meeting in 1999 and protested the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. He is the author of numerous essays on social change theory and practice, including co-writing Re:Imagining Change (PM Press 2010). He is the co-founder of the Center for Story-based Strategy (formerly known as smartMeme), a movement support organization which harnesses the power of narrative for fundamental social change. He lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay area. Doyle Canning was struck by a tear gas canister in the streets of Seattle in 1999, and has never been the same since. She is a creative strategist with a deep commitment to building broad-based movements for social justice and an ecological future. Doyle is a co-founder of the Center for Story-based Strategy (formerly known as smartMeme). She delivers training, coaching, facilitation and framing to high-impact networks who are taking on greedy corporations, corrupt politicians, racist laws and polluting policies. Doyle is co-author of Re:Imagining Change with Patrick Reinsborough. She lives with her husband in Boston, where she enjoys practicing yoga, cooking, and making music. Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution. http://beautifultrouble.org/theory/narrative-power-analysis/) ML In Sum All... fairer, freer world.
1/16/17
JF Undercommons K
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 6 | Opponent: Stuyvesant KF | Judge: Tom Evnen You can never fix a chair that you were never made to sit in – you must refuse to sit. The AC functions as a method to satiate the demands of white civil society– they say all we need is a little more critical education and critical pedagogy, and that with this we can resolve an already corrupted educational sphere. This is not a step away- it is an active stance against the undercommons. . Moten and Harney ‘13 Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University and a co-founder of the School for Study and Fred Moten, Helen L. Bevington Professor of Moden Poetry, “The University and the Undercommons,” The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, pg. 29 Introducing this labor... not-ready of negligence?
Couple of specific links
Analytic 2. Analytic 3. Analytic 4. Analytic
The impact - The aff’s method attempts to alter a space that is already built to exclude. She concedes this through the Ahmed 13 evidence. This only perpetuates the social death of all those it has excluded and also turns aff since it removes any meaning from action you take. Occupy UC Berkeley ‘09 Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University and a co-founder of the School for Study and Fred Moten, Helen L. Bevington Professor of Moden Poetry, “The University and the Undercommons,” The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, pg. 29 He and his... horror is thoughtless.
She asks you to reform educational system when the AC refuses nothing. By revealing its method the AC begs for systematic manipulation. Every act of killjoy refusal gives the debate space detailed instructions on how to co-opt her method. You should instead endorse the disorder of refusal of what has been refused This politics of refusal is the best way to deconstruct the order and logic of White society. Habelstram ‘13 Habelstram, Jack; Moten, Fred; Harney, Stefano; “The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study;” (2013); Minor Compositions, Famous Authors; Retrieved January 12th, 2016; http://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf - JS The path to... pain and truth.
I advocate for a politics of opacity. The alternative is to slip into the undercommons and take what we can. This advocacy isn’t a blueprint and I’m not going to tell you exactly what it means—we must disappear into the undercommons to find it. Opacity makes us dissenting fugitives unfit for subjugation. This is the only way to occupy spaces of sanctioned knowledge production like debate and the university without becoming grist for their mill. Our alternative does what killjoy mechanisms can’t – deconstruction a system by refusing to engage it. Moten and Harney 2 Fred and Stefano, The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses, Social Text 22.2, Summer “To the university... act of teaching.
This makes the perm impossible,
Analytic 2. Analytic 3. Analytic
Now for some framing and impact calc: We concede that the role of the judge is to vote for the best resistance strategy for the oppressed. However, liberation must be derived from a direct celebration of nothingness, not from “killing the joy” or opening spaces within the university. Moten ‘13 Fred and Stefano, The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses, Social Text 22.2, Summer When one reads... in the hold.
Couple of implications:
Analytic 2. Analytic 3. Analytic
3/4/17
ND Cap K
Tournament: Princeton | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bridgewater Raritan AN | Judge: Jonathan Horowitz The U.S. police were created to protect the bourgeois and control the proletariat. The aff’s continued defense of the police reaffirms their protection of the bourgeoisie. Whitehouse 1 (https://socialistworker.org/blog/critical-reading/2014/12/09/main-role-police-protecting-ca) While workers grew... the economic elite.
The alternative is to disband the police. This is a necessary first step in advancing toward an effective revolution against the bourgeoisie and the capitalist system. The perm is impossible since the aff actively harms the proletariat by using the police. It fails to achieve a revolutionist mindset, which only the alt does. WWP 16 http://aworldwithoutpolice.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/AWorldWithoutPolice_Color.pdf Cops don’t just... spaces they operate.
The role of the ballot is to vote for the better debater who methodologically deconstructs capitalism.
The judge has an obligation to reject capitalism as an educator. Neoliberalism ideology forces pedagogies of maintaining the capitalist state among students. The K comes prior to any epistemic knowledge since capitalism asserts control over our systems of thought. Mclaren 2 Mclaren 08’-Peter,Critical Pedagogy Against Capitalist Schooling: Towards a Socialist Alternative. An Interview with Peter McLaren The epistemological presuppositions... loss to our
Capitalism is the root cause of all oppression, meaning it is the ultimate restrictor of voices. Thus, combatting capitalist structures logically comes prior to all other frameworks. This independently turns the aff. You pretend to solve for oppression while shifting to other forms of it. McLaren 3 McLaren, Distinguished Fellow – Critical Studies @ Chapman U and UCLA urban schooling prof, and Scatamburlo-D’Annibale, associate professor of Communication – U Windsor, ‘4 (Peter and Valerie, “Class Dismissed? Historical materialism and the politics of ‘difference’,” Educational Philosophy and Theory Vol. 36, Issue 2, p. 183-199) For well over... ethnicity, gender, etc.
Using qualified immunity to combat ableism narrows the problem to the legal system. The AFF can’t solve unless we first deconstruct cultural norms that condone and produce police violence in the first place. Tracy Mack, 2016. (“Legitimizing police violence: sanism, ableism and racism.” York University. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289515499_Legitimizing_police_violence_sanism_ableism_and_racism. Accessed 11/30/16.) ML In the name... oppression and privilege.
12/5/16
ND Legalism K
Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lexington KB | Judge: Parth Ahya America has power, but not justice. In prison, we were victimized as if we were guilty. Given no opportunity to explain, it was really brutal. I bow my head in reflection but there is nothing I can do (Anonymous, Untitled, in ISLAND: POETRY AND HISTORY OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS ON ANGEL ISLAND, 1910-1940, at 58 (Him Mark Lai et al. eds., 1980) hereinafter ISLAND. This poem was discovered on the walls of the Angel Island barracks, along with over 135 other poems written by Chinese immigrants awaiting either permission to enter the United States or orders for deportation from America. Id. at 23. The poems were translated by the editors whose parents were Angel Island inmates. Id. at 8. "The ordeal of immigration and detention left an indelible mark in the minds of many Chinese, a number of whom wrote poetry on the barrack walls, recording the impressions of their voyage to America, their longing for families back home, and their outrage and humiliation at the treatment America accorded them.)
Our identities and culture are erased in the American legal system. We have experienced systematic exclusion since we first arrived as immigrants – data is skewed so that our experiences can never be “verified.” We’ve been speaking out through anonymous poems written on walls; the Neg performance is my way of reclaiming our hidden narratives and rejecting the idealistic assumptions of the AFF that liberation strategies through courts will ever acknowledge us. Harvard Law Review 1, 1993. (“Racial Violence Against Asian Americans.” The Harvard Law Review Association. Harvard Law Review, Vol. 106, No. 8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1341790.pdf. Accessed 10/27/16. 1927-1929) ML Accurately measuring the... warrant special concern
Pretending courts will ever acknowledge our perspectives only reentrenches the dehumanization process marginalized groups have always experienced in the legal system. The courts themselves deny us “in” status, a result of certain bodies being viewed as “foreign” – history proves, turns the AFF. Harvard Law Review 2, 1993. (“Racial Violence Against Asian Americans.” The Harvard Law Review Association. Harvard Law Review, Vol. 106, No. 8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1341790.pdf. Accessed 10/27/16. 1936-1938) ML 2. Deciding to Commit... deserving of violence.7 Also means A) analytic B) analytic
Our stories are always untold, always hidden behind the Model Minority myth, exemplified in the unseen and accepted police brutality against Asian Americans. John Zhang et al, 2013. (“Policy Memo Anti Asian American Discrimination.” Asian Americans and Police Brutality. Antonio Alvarez, Isidro Cabrera, Rodolfo Mendoza. Blog. https://asianamericansandpolicemisconduct.wordpress.com. Accessed 10/31/16.) ML There seems to... Americans more efficiently. Two implications: A) analytic B) analytic
Thus the Alt is to reject the AFF’s appeal to Western superiority as a way of liberation and instead utilize a grassroots method of combatting oppression.
This means we use our narratives to form coalitions within marginalized communities to combat police brutality. Robert S. Chang 1, 1993. (“Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-structuralism, and Narrative Space.” Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons. Accesed 11/11/16. 1303-1304) ML Earlier, I showed... "model minority" stereotype.
Utilizing our differences as a liberation strategy means we can break down the context in which our identities have been constructed. Robert S. Chang 2, 1993. (“Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-structuralism, and Narrative Space.” Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons. Accesed 11/11/16. 1320-1322) ML We can use... come in stages.
The role of the judge is to be an educator concerned with including multiple perspectives in the debate round. The judge is in a position to be an inclusive educator, and has an obligation to open up the space for multiple pedagogies, or polyvocal debate. Koh and Niemi Koh, Benjamin; Neimi, Rebar; “How Do I Reach These Kids? An Affirmation of Polyvocal Debate;” (September 15th, 2015); NSD Update, Respected people in the community; Retrieved January 27th, 2016; http://nsdupdate.com/2015/09/15/how-do-i-reach-these-kids-an-affirmation-of-polyvocal-debate-by-ben-koh-rebar-niemi/ - OK For as long... of better debating.
The Role of the Ballot is to performatively and methodologically combat Western superiority and liberate marginalized groups Understanding the discourse surrounding Western superiority in an educational setting is necessary for any critical analysis we start. Tikly Leon Tikly, Education and the New Imperialism, Comparative Education , Vol. 40, No. 2, Special Issue (28): Postcolonialism and Comparative Education (May, 2004), pp. 173-198, Published by: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4134648 In the above... constructed and contested.
And, the myth of the model minority covers up institutional criminalization of Asian Americans, means we have to first recognize the harms of this myth before taking a general approach to the problem or interracial solidarity. Jung Jung, Soya; “The Importance of Asian Americans? It’s Not What You Think;” (April 2013); ChangeLab; (July 27th, 2016); http://www.changelabinfo.com/reports/ChangeLab_The-Importance-of-Asian-Americans.pdf - JS Another organizer, also... across all regions.
My performance acts against institutional hierarchies. Poetry is a way of breaking down language and promoting stories of the oppressed. Chan Segal, Corinne – Chan, Wo; “Poet Wo Chan Uses Words To Fight Oppression;” (May 11th, 2015); PBS NewsHour; Rage poet; (August 13th, 2016); http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/wo-chan-poetry-activism/ - JS “I’m expected to... point of intersectionality.”
11/13/16
ND Legalism K v2
Tournament: Princeton | Round: Triples | Opponent: Syosset LF | Judge: Shannon Lee, Jordanne Gizzarelli, Henry Curtis America has power, but not justice. In prison, we were victimized as if we were guilty. Given no opportunity to explain, it was really brutal. I bow my head in reflection but there is nothing I can do (Anonymous, Untitled, in ISLAND: POETRY AND HISTORY OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS ON ANGEL ISLAND, 1910-1940, at 58 (Him Mark Lai et al. eds., 1980) hereinafter ISLAND. This poem was discovered on the walls of the Angel Island barracks, along with over 135 other poems written by Chinese immigrants awaiting either permission to enter the United States or orders for deportation from America. Id. at 23. The poems were translated by the editors whose parents were Angel Island inmates. Id. at 8. "The ordeal of immigration and detention left an indelible mark in the minds of many Chinese, a number of whom wrote poetry on the barrack walls, recording the impressions of their voyage to America, their longing for families back home, and their outrage and humiliation at the treatment America accorded them.)
Our identities and culture are erased in the American legal system. We have experienced systematic exclusion since we first arrived as immigrants – data is skewed so that our experiences can never be “verified.” We’ve been speaking out through anonymous poems written on walls; the Neg performance is my way of reclaiming our hidden narratives and rejecting the idealistic assumptions of the AFF that liberation strategies through courts will ever acknowledge us. Harvard Law Review 1, 1993. (“Racial Violence Against Asian Americans.” The Harvard Law Review Association. Harvard Law Review, Vol. 106, No. 8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1341790.pdf. Accessed 10/27/16. 1927-1929) ML Accurately measuring the... warrant special concern
Pretending courts will ever acknowledge our perspectives only reentrenches the dehumanization process marginalized groups have always experienced in the legal system. The courts themselves deny us “in” status, a result of certain bodies being viewed as “foreign” – history proves, turns the AFF. Harvard Law Review 2, 1993. (“Racial Violence Against Asian Americans.” The Harvard Law Review Association. Harvard Law Review, Vol. 106, No. 8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1341790.pdf. Accessed 10/27/16. 1936-1938) ML 2. Deciding to Commit... deserving of violence.7 Also means A) analytic B) analytic
Two more implications: A) analytic B) analytic
Thus the Alt is to reject the AFF’s appeal to Western superiority as a way of liberation and instead utilize a grassroots method of combatting oppression.
This means we use our narratives to form coalitions within marginalized communities to combat police brutality. Robert S. Chang 1, 1993. (“Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-structuralism, and Narrative Space.” Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons. Accesed 11/11/16. 1303-1304) ML Earlier, I showed... "model minority" stereotype.
Utilizing our differences as a liberation strategy means we can break down the context in which our identities have been constructed. Robert S. Chang 2, 1993. (“Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-structuralism, and Narrative Space.” Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons. Accesed 11/11/16. 1320-1322) ML We can use... come in stages.
It’s not a question of legal equality for queer communities; the only way to challenge the status quo is to place queer experiences at the forefront and form communities around them. Susan Dirr and Tessa Echeverria, 2012. (“How Laws Assault Queer People.” https://solidarity-us.org/node/3502. Accessed 12/1/16.) ML How can the... expressions and sexualities.
The role of the judge is to be an educator concerned with including multiple perspectives in the debate round. The judge is in a position to be an inclusive educator, and has an obligation to open up the space for multiple pedagogies, or polyvocal debate. Koh and Niemi Koh, Benjamin; Neimi, Rebar; “How Do I Reach These Kids? An Affirmation of Polyvocal Debate;” (September 15th, 2015); NSD Update, Respected people in the community; Retrieved January 27th, 2016; http://nsdupdate.com/2015/09/15/how-do-i-reach-these-kids-an-affirmation-of-polyvocal-debate-by-ben-koh-rebar-niemi/ - OK For as long... of better debating.
The Role of the Ballot is to performatively and methodologically combat Western superiority and liberate marginalized groups Understanding the discourse surrounding Western superiority in an educational setting is necessary for any critical analysis we start. Tikly Leon Tikly, Education and the New Imperialism, Comparative Education , Vol. 40, No. 2, Special Issue (28): Postcolonialism and Comparative Education (May, 2004), pp. 173-198, Published by: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4134648 In the above... constructed and contested.
And, the myth of the model minority covers up institutional criminalization of Asian Americans, means we have to first recognize the harms of this myth before taking a general approach to the problem or interracial solidarity. Jung Jung, Soya; “The Importance of Asian Americans? It’s Not What You Think;” (April 2013); ChangeLab; (July 27th, 2016); http://www.changelabinfo.com/reports/ChangeLab_The-Importance-of-Asian-Americans.pdf - JS Another organizer, also... across all regions.
My performance acts against institutional hierarchies. Poetry is a way of breaking down language and promoting stories of the oppressed. Chan Segal, Corinne – Chan, Wo; “Poet Wo Chan Uses Words To Fight Oppression;” (May 11th, 2015); PBS NewsHour; Rage poet; (August 13th, 2016); http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/wo-chan-poetry-activism/ - JS “I’m expected to... point of intersectionality.”
12/5/16
ND T Disclosure and Implementation
Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Newtown CT | Judge: Michael Stewart A. Interpretation – On the Nov-Dec 2016 NSDA topic, if the AFF did not disclose directly to the negative debater before the round, they must defend the implementation of qualified immunity by a government. B. C.
Ground 2. Open discourse 3. Limits D. Education Advocacy skills Fairness Drop debater Competing interps
11/13/16
SO Caputi K
Tournament: Yale | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake SK | Judge: Joe Bruner It's all related It reminds that with purpose we're all created But that's debated Distorted by those who hated On our beliefs Cause we believed all things were sacred
Uranium drains from our black hills Let it rain Genocide won't pay the bills
I can't escape that warming up with this smallpox blanket While I see my mother get abused I'm accused Cause I don't dance with the devil
I bet their hearts drop when they hear these drums And hear our songs now Tired of being oppressed You can't white wash me in this white war You can't speak about people you don't fight for
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY IN THE SQUO IS ASSOCIATED WITH MASCULINITY – THE ONLY WAY TO DECONSTRUCT THESE ASSOCIATIONS IS THROUGH METAPHOR. Jane Caputi 1, 1991. (“THE METAPHORS OF RADIATION. Or, Why a Beautiful Woman is Like a Nuclear Power Plant.” Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico. Women’s Studies Int. Forum. 423-442. Accessed 8/8/16.) ML However inconsequential or... and including violence.
YOUR ADVOCACY OF BANNING SUCH SYMBOLS IS EXTREMELY EUROCENTRIC; NATIVE THINKERS ADVOCATE FOR RECLAIMING AS A LIBERATION STRATEGY – THIS INDEPENDENTLY TURNS THE AFF. YOU PRETEND TO ADVOCATE FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WHILE CONTINUING TO ADVOCATE FOR WHITENESS. ONLY I SOLVE FOR THE ROOT CAUSE BY TAKING AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH AND SHIFTING AWAY FROM THE EUROCENTRIC MASCULINE NORM-- Jane Caputi 2, 1991. (“THE METAPHORS OF RADIATION. Or, Why a Beautiful Woman is Like a Nuclear Power Plant.” Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico. Women’s Studies Int. Forum. 423-442. Accessed 8/16/16.) ML The 16th-century philosopher... of the storm?”
THE ALT IS TO UNGENDER THE NUCLEAR STATE BY RECLAIMING METAPHORS THROUGH POLITICS.
UNGENDERING THE NUCLEAR STATE IS KEY TO SHIFTING OUR MASCULINE-CENTERED CULTURE. Polina Sinovets, 2014. (“The soul of women in nuclear politics.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. A ssociate professor in the international relations department at Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine. From 2004 to 2012 she was a senior research associate at Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies. In 2006 was a fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. She has published several dozen articles on nuclear deterrence, disarmament, missile defense, and nonproliferation in Ukrainian, Russian, and English. In 2004 she received a doctorate in political science from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Kiev. http://thebulletin.org/women-and-nuclear-weapons-policy7165 Accessed 8/15/16) ML Many feminists view... the atom follow.
PROHIBITING THE PRODUCTION OF NULEAR POWER WON’T DO ANYTHING TO CHANGE THE CULTURE OF VIOENCE AND PATRIARCHY. WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THESE ASSOCIATIONS AND SYMBOLS IN POLITICS INSTEAD OF SWEEPING THEM UNDER THE RUG. Ray Acheson. (“Gender and Nuclear Disarmament.” Reaching Critical Will of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. http://www.peacewomen.org/assets/file/Themes/gender.pdf Accessed 8/15/16.) ML These meanings were... too “soft” (i.e. feminine).
THUS THE ROLE OF THE BALLOT IS TO PERFORMATIVELY AND METHODOLOGICALLY COMBATS INTERSECTIONAL OPPRESSION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RESOLUTION.
Every ballot matters – repetition is what confers power on the performative act. Voting AFF brings real voices and experiences into the debate sphere, making the performance the best way to actually access advocacy skills. Dr. Judith Butler, 1993 (“Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex.” Noted for her studies on gender and teaches composition an rhetoric at Berkeley. 225.) Performative acts are... of binding convention.
NARRATIVES ARE THE ONLY WAY MINORITY VOICES CAN ENTER OPPRESSIVE SYSTEMS – THIS MAKES MY PERFORMANCE UNIQUELY KEY. Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, 2001. (“Critical Race Theory: An Introduction.” NYU. Teaches civil rights and critical race theory at the University of Alabama School of Law. Professor. 43-44) ML Stories give also... their narrative forcefully.
AND EVEN IF I AM LOSING THE SUBSTANCE DEB8 U VOTE NEG SINCE NARRATIVES ARE RELEVANT IN ALL CONTEXTS; MY PERFORMANCE UNIQUELY ALLOWS US TO EXAMINE EXISTING OPPRESSIVE IDEOLOGIES AND CHANGE THEM. PERFORMANCES TURN DEBATE INTO A COLLECTIVE SPACE WHERE WE CAN SPECIFICALLY MAKE GENDER NORMS VISIBLE AND RUPTURE THEM – I O/W ON SPECIFICITY AND MAGNITUDE. Jale Karabekir, 2004. (“Performance as a Strategy for Women’s Liberation: The Practices of the Theatre of the Oppressed in Okmeydami Social Center.” Bogazici University. Master of Arts in Sociology. 128-134.) ML It is important... they became stronger.(Arsen)
YOUR LIBERATION STRATEGY WILL NEVER HELP THE NON-MASCULINE BODY; WOMXN WILL NEVER BE PART OF THE PROCESS UNTIL WE BECOME PART OF THE POLICYMAKING REALM. Ruth Meena. (“Women and Sustainable Development.” Voices of Africa. Number 5: Sustainable Development Part 1.) ML Participation of womxn... a distant dream.
AND, MY INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH IS KEY TO REAL CHANGE. Sara Salem, 2014. (“Decolonial Intersectionality and a Transnational Feminist Movement.” PhD researcher at the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands. The Feminist Wire. http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/04/decolonial-intersectionality/. Accessed 8/18/16.) ML Transnational solidarity among... create transnational solidarity.
And in order for that system to work They have to mine our minds The mining of the essence The mining of the spirit The pollution from that Is all of the neurotic, distorted, insecure behavior patterns that we develop But it's a disease Lives and travels through the mind Through the generations"
10/20/16
SO Nuclia Waste K
Tournament: Yale | Round: Triples | Opponent: Byram Hills JB | Judge: Isis Davis-Marks, Cameron Cohen, Daniel Shatzkin THE AFF’S APPEAL TO PROHIBITING THE PRODUCTION OF NUCLEAR POWER AS A WAY TO ACHIEVE A “CLEANER ENVIRONMENT” REAFFIRMS THE FALSE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN NATURE AND HUMXNS Shiloh R. Krupar 1, 2012. (“Transnatural ethics: revisiting the nuclear cleanup of Rocky Flats, CO, through the queer ecology of Nuclia Waste.” Cultural Geographies. Georgetown University. Accessed 9/1/16. 305-308) ML Originally under the... attendant sexual politics.
THE WAY THE AC SEPARATES THE “PURITY” OF NATURE AND WASTE IS ANALOGOUS TO HOW THE HETEROSEXIST STATUS QUO POLICES BODIES. VOTING AFF REENTRENCHES SUCH BONDARIES, TURNING THE AC. Timothy Morton 1, 2010. (“Guest Column: Queer Ecology.” Professor of English (literature and the environment) at the University of California, Davis. Accessed 9/5/16. 274) ML Judith Butler makes... brand of Nature.
AND, THE AFF CREATES A RUSE OF SOLVENCY – WE SEE “CLEAN” LAND BUT FORGET THE REMAINDERS OF THE NUCLEAR ERA – INDEPENDENTLY TURNS THE AFF. Shiloh R. Krupar 2, 2012. (“Transnatural ethics: revisiting the nuclear cleanup of Rocky Flats, CO, through the queer ecology of Nuclia Waste.” Cultural Geographies. Georgetown University. Accessed 9/1/16. 308-310) ML For example, a... sphere of workers.
THE ALT IS TO ENDORSE TRANSNATURAL ETHICS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF NUCLIA WASTE
The triple-nippled drag... a shelf life
THE PERFORMANCE OF NUCLIA WASTE REPOLITICIZES THE FALLOUT OF THE NUCLEAR ERA BY USING THE BODY AS A SITE OF POSSIBILITY – WE QUEER ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, MEANING WE REJECT WHITE HETEROSEXUAL MASCULINITY AND EMBRACE “DEFECTIVE” BODIES. Shiloh R. Krupar 3, 2012. (“Transnatural ethics: revisiting the nuclear cleanup of Rocky Flats, CO, through the queer ecology of Nuclia Waste.” Cultural Geographies. Georgetown University. Accessed 9/1/16. 314-320) ML Introducing Nuclia Waste... a transnatural ethics.
WE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE ALL HISTORIES -- TRANSNATURAL ETHICS ACKNOWLEDGES SUBJUGATED, “DEFECTIVE” BODIES TO CHALLENGE CULTURAL NORMS Shiloh R. Krupar 4, 2012. (“Transnatural ethics: revisiting the nuclear cleanup of Rocky Flats, CO, through the queer ecology of Nuclia Waste.” Cultural Geographies. Georgetown University. Accessed 9/1/16. 310-314) ML While the compensation... through contemporary environments.
THE ROTB IS TO PERFORMATIVELY AND METHODOLOGICALLY BREAK DOWN HETERONORMATIVITY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RESOLUTION
ONLY TRANSNATURAL ETHICS ACKNOWLEDGES THE RELATIONALITY BETWEEN BEINGS, WHICH IS A PREREQUISITE TO BREAKING DOWN GENDER NORMS. Timothy Morton 2, 2010. (“Guest Column: Queer Ecology.” Professor of English (literature and the environment) at the University of California, Davis. Accessed 9/5/16. 275-278) ML Going up a scale... we know it.
ANY ATTEMPTS TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS EFFECTIVELY MUST START FROM TRANSNATURAL ETHICS – OTHERWISE, WE REENTRENCH THE WASTE/NATURE BINARY. Shiloh R. Krupar 5, 2012. (“Transnatural ethics: revisiting the nuclear cleanup of Rocky Flats, CO, through the queer ecology of Nuclia Waste.” Cultural Geographies. Georgetown University. Accessed 9/1/16. 304-305) ML The triple-nippled drag... operational by 1952.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SEXUAL POLITICS ARE INTERTWINED – ANALYZING THIS RELATIONSHIP IS KEY TO SOLVING ISSUES SUCH AS GLOBAL WARMING, MEANS THE ALT MUST COME FIRST. Timothy Morton 3, 2010. (“Guest Column: Queer Ecology.” Professor of English (literature and the environment) at the University of California, Davis. Accessed 9/5/16. 278-279) ML Against Compulsory Nature... they aren’t people.
PERFORMANCES TURN DEBATE INTO A COLLECTIVE SPACE WHERE WE CAN SPECIFICALLY MAKE GENDER NORMS VISIBLE AND RUPTURE THEM Jale Karabekir, 2004. (“Performance as a Strategy for Women’s Liberation: The Practices of the Theatre of the Oppressed in Okmeydami Social Center.” Bogazici University. Master of Arts in Sociology. 128-134.) ML It is important... they became stronger.(Arsen)
10/30/16
SO Political Inclusion Lay NC
Tournament: Beltway | Round: 3 | Opponent: North Alleghany ER | Judge: Irene Gofman I negate and value morality. Every person must recognize others’ human dignity as unconditionally good upon fear of contradiction
Korsgaard writes: Christine M. Korsgaard received her B.A. at the University of Illinois in 1974; her PhD at Harvard in 1981; and an LHD at the University of Illinois in 2004. She has held positions at Yale, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago. This is just... its own sake.
This implies political inclusion- being included in political decision-making is the best way to account for one’s dignity Hayden writes: From Exclusion to Containment: Arendt, Sovereign Power, and Statelessness Patrick Hayden University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK Received 20 December 2007; accepted 2 February 2008 The containment, detention... move- ment “underlies both.”72
Thus, my value criterion is promoting political inclusion, defined as allowing citizens of a state to partake in politics and influence political decisions within a state. Additionally prefer my criterion: First, allowing people to be politically included allows them to be the ultimate deciders of law by giving them the ability to influence laws that affect them. There is a government obligation to ensure this occurs, which means that the neg framework is most specific to the actor of the resolution. Apel writes: (Discourse Ethics, Democracy, and International Law: Toward a Globalization of Practical Reason. Karl-Otto Apel, Professor Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2007.) Now, at this... a democratic state.
CONTENTION TWO IS DEMOCRACY Nuclear power is moving in the direction of democratization Nuttall. W J Nuttall. Nuclear Renaissance Requires Nuclear Enlightenment. Judge Business School, Cambridge University, Trumpington Street Cambridge, CB2 1AG UK. NP 9/9/16. Across the Baltic... from international experience.
