Weeknotes: 11/07/26-11/13/26

weeknotes teaching museum indigenous race goodthings

This Week:

We were delighted to welcome Kanerahti:io DJ White, a Kanienke’ha:ka/Mohawk educator, craftsman, and performer to the Yager Museum. DJ brought down his astonishing collection of cultural objects from his workshop to share with visitors. He spent three hours teaching Mohawk history, culture, songs, and teachings to a delighted group of visitors. I’m honored and thankful that he made the trek down here.
In FLP102, we talked about hoarding as a kind of deviant collecting, and the ways that class, gender, and popular culture structure how we think about what separates a collection from a hoard. The students also met DJ and got to hear him speak about his astonishing collection. Today, we are going up to Hartwick’s Belonging Center to learn about Hartwick’s complicated history of engaging with questions of race and ethnicity, and how the Center works on that in the future.
We got hit with a big snowstorm on Friday, so Alanna and I are juggling kiddos today.
Next week is opening of the student-curated exhibit “15 Minutes of Fame: How Andy Warhol! changed popular culture” so I’ve been getting that ready and helping install.
Good things:
- I finished reading Angela Nagle’s “Kill All Normies” and wrote up some notes. I also wrote up some notes about Eden Medina’s Cybernetic Revolutionaries