Hello everybody,

hope you all had a nice break. I am sitting here in my cold room being all warmed up by rhizomes and desiring machines. Really, I am thinking about the ways I can operationalize Tuck's framework of desire in PAR work within the immigrant community. I am also much eager to engage with the community in ways that they are primarely the ones "holding the power to make changes".

If you are interested in digging some more into Tuck's theorazing about change and community action, I recommend you check her excellent reading/call for community activism and protagonism: "Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities".


The following is the abstract:

"In this open letter, Eve Tuck calls on communities, researchers, and educators to reconsider the long-term impact of “damage-centered” research—research that intends to document peoples’ pain and brokenness to hold those in power accountable for their oppression. This kind of research operates with a flawed theory of change: it is often used to leverage reparations or resources for marginalized communities yet simultane- ously reinforces and reinscribes a one-dimensional notion of these people as depleted, ruined, and hopeless. Tuck urges communities to institute a moratorium on damage- centered research to reformulate the ways research is framed and conducted and to reimagine how findings might be used by, for, and with communities."