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As state laws target transgender children, families flee and become 'political refugees'
Governor rescinds four proclamations as colonial legacy lingers
President Biden Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States
President Biden issues the first Transgender Proclamation on March 31, 2021
honoring the legacies and contributions of transgender leaders.
Issue 27: Asian/American Rhetorical Trans/formations
This Ain’t Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice!
As with previous CCCC/NCTE resolutions and position statements, we situate this demand in our current historical and sociopolitical context. Our current call for Black Linguistic Justice comes in the midst of a pandemic that is disproportionately infecting and killing Black people. We write this statement while witnessing ongoing #BlackLivesMatter protests across the United States in response to the anti-Black racist violence and murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and a growing list of Black people at the hands of the state and vigilantes. We are observing calls for abolition and demands to defund the police.
Statement Responding to Attacks on Critical Race Theory
The Executive Branch of the United States government has recently tried to defund any initiative that involves critical race theory. It has also threatened to withhold federal funding from schools that incorporate The 1619 Project of the New York Times into their curriculum. In light of these attacks, ASLE takes this opportunity to affirm critical approaches to race, enslavement, and settler-colonialism as central to the study of nature writing, environmental literature, and ecomedia. We further affirm Africana, Latinx, Asian American, and Native American and Indigenous Studies as integral to a justice-seeking ecocriticism.