This week we are joined by Beverly Bain, Rinadlo Walcott, and Uahikea Maile who talk with us about the university as a key pillar of capitalism and the state. We discuss the lip service paid to decolonization efforts, the ways in which Black and indigenous scholars are co-opted and captured by university institutions, and what possibilities exist for envisioning knowledge sharing beyond the framework of the university. Beverly Bain is a Black queer radical feminist scholar, anti-capitalist, activist, organizer abolitionist, and public intellectual. She has over forty years of experience in feminist anti-violence and anti-racism communities in Canada and globally. Bain frequently delivers national and international lectures on gender, anti-Blackness, sexuality, abolition, and liberation, and she is regularly interviewed on police violence, Black queer organizing, and defunding and abolishing police. Bain is published in numerous books, including Queerly Canadian 2nd edition (2022), We Still Demand: Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles (2017), and journals, including Canadian Women’s Studies, Fireweed, and The Conversation. Rinaldo Walcott is Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies at the University of Buffalo. His research is in the area of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies, gender and sexuality with interests in nations, nationalisms, multiculturalism, policy and education broadly defined. As an interdisciplinary Black Studies scholar, Walcott has published in a wide range of venues on everything from literature to film, to theatre to music to policy. His most recent books include The Long Emancipation: Moving Towards Freedom (2021) and On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition (2021). Uahikea Maile is a Kanaka Maoli scholar, strategist, and practitioner from Maunawili on the island of O‘ahu. He is assistant professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Maile’s forthcoming book with Duke University Press is entitled Gifts of Sovereignty: Capitalism, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Politics in Hawaiʻi. They are the vice president of Red Media, research fellow with the Yellowhead Institute, and a member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective and Hui Aloha ʻĀina o Honolulu. The Everyday Orientalism Podcast explores how Orientalism continues to have deep ramifications in our everyday lives, for how we think about settler-colonialism, liberation, and how empire and capitalism continue to exploit and dehumanize the majority of us. Defined by Palestinian American literary scholar Edward Said, Orientalism is “a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.” Our podcast celebrates the 10th anniversary of the platform Everyday Orientalism. Host: Girish Daswani Editor and producer: Taylor Stark Research assistant: Sophie Plotkin Intro music: Madame Salame – Decaf
