Decolonization - Volume 2, Issue 3 out now

From Decolonization: Our Fall 2014 issue has been published! It’s an exciting collection of peer-reviewed articles, interviews, essays and book reviews. You can read the whole issue HERE, and the Table of Contents is below.

ARTICLES
Unsettling settler colonialism: The discourse and politics of settlers, and solidarity with Indigenous nations
Not mere abstractions: Language policies and language ideologies in U.S. settler colonialism
Beasts of burden: How literary animals remap the aesthetics of removal
Western epistemic dominance and colonial structures: Considerations for thought and practice in programs of teacher education
Separate and connected: A portrait of perspectives and pedagogy at an Afrocentric shule
Amazighité and secularism: Rethinking religious-secular divisions in the Amazigh political imagination

INTERVIEWS
Paper Rocket Productions: A decolonizing epistemology of young Indigenous filmmakers

CONTINUATIONS
Liberating the spirit through education transformed: The teacup memorial for Roxana Chu-Yee Ng

REVIEWS
Critique de la raison nègre: A review
Red Skin, White Masks: A review

CUT & PASTE

Becoming a dad for the second time must have triggered some kind of punk-regression, because what little time I have between naps and nappies is being spent on a blog called CUT & PASTE. There are hundreds of punk, hardcore, thrashcore, fastcore and powerviolence bands on there, all with downloads.

In keeping with the name of the blog, here are some of my favourites so far:

Human Junk

"Human Junk is an incredibly raw and blistering two-man hardcore punk from the UK. Super-fast and rad as all hell. Noisy and thrashy riffs, spastic drums & utterly pissed vocals work magic for these guys. Any fans of powerviolence and fastcore must snag this immediately."

Man Hands Split Cassette (2011)

(Human Junk Tracks Only)

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Threatener

"Threatener is ridiculously hyper, manic, destructive & extreme fastcore extravaganza. These punks from An Arbor, Michigan tear shit up! Super-thrashin' speeds of power-chord shredding, absurdly fast drumming, and harsh & rowdy vox. They are a distorted, rusty buzzsaw right through your brain. Soooo fucking good! They sadly only lasted from 2001-2005."

Discography

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Vaccine

"If you haven't heard of this band yet you are an idiot. Period. Vaccine is yet another Western Mass powerhouse featuring The Legendary Will Killingsworth, Matt Swift from Relics and The Living City, Joe Shumsky from Think I Care and Glue, and our friend Matt McKeown who spilled his guts with No Faith. In a nut shell this band tears shit up. Super pumped up and vicious straight edge power violence. This shit kills!"

Vaccine / No Faith Split 7" (2013)
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Genders

"Genders was a short-lived Powerviolence outfit from the Massachusetts/Connecticut Area. These guys released a Demo in 2009 under their previous band-name "Afflictions" and a 7" titled "Day Of Choices" on Prgnt Records."

2009 Demo

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