Jecca Namakkal
@jecca.bsky.social
Editor at the Abusable Past, Radical History Review collective, professionally a historian, teaching at Duke. Film school dropout. Wrote *Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India* (Columbia UP, 2021) she/her
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From a digital or analog collage, photo, drawing, blackout poem, video, or anything else, select artworks will be incorporated into openly licensed teaching materials. See more info about Executive Dis/Order at abusablepast.org/call-for-sub.... More questions can be directed to thepedlab@gmail.com.
![A slide with a white box and dark text reading “example” below an excerpt of the White House’s Executive Order “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities” accompanied by a poem titled “[record of transfer]”:
instructions:
remain solvent.
comply with terms,
as outlined in the policy,
as amended without notice,
as interpreted by the holder.
where self-direction exceeds design,
debt may be used to re-establish form:
• debt to structure.
• debt to discipline.
• debt to contain.
used to be,
you could name
what you owed
and to whom.
our instructions:
remain solvent,
stay still. please,
submit your forms again
to ensure proper processing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7jgdzwngtgv4jeour7o3zwr4/bafkreih66ngl3xqsb5cpdmpdcxuho56xt2cmypwoxzxcsh5zhijlwyzeye@jpeg)
July 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
From a digital or analog collage, photo, drawing, blackout poem, video, or anything else, select artworks will be incorporated into openly licensed teaching materials. See more info about Executive Dis/Order at abusablepast.org/call-for-sub.... More questions can be directed to thepedlab@gmail.com.
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personally I would just skip the whole "your economic opinions boil down to which countries you stan" deal and go for the whole "because of capitalism I could have bananas every day" sort of rhetorical strategy. but I suppose you should take my Third World ass opinions with a grain of salt
November 28, 2024 at 1:39 AM
personally I would just skip the whole "your economic opinions boil down to which countries you stan" deal and go for the whole "because of capitalism I could have bananas every day" sort of rhetorical strategy. but I suppose you should take my Third World ass opinions with a grain of salt