Ep 262 - The Education Suite Vol. 5: SA Smythe

AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. This episode's guest is poet, translator, and transdisciplinary scholar SA Smythe. SA is a professor at UCLA, and is one of the organizers of the Cops Off Campus Campaign, which aims to remove police and policing from all University of California campuses by September 2021. They join the show to talk about the campaign, the challenges and unique potential of forging a truly public university, how the campaign connects to their study of Blackness in the Mediterranean, reaching toward diasporic power rather than national citizenship, and MUCH, MUCH more. Recorded 9/29/20 SHOW NOTES: Support the Cops Off Campus campaign - https://www.instagram.com/uc_ftp/ Nick Mitchell - https://cres.ucsc.edu/faculty/regular-faculty.php?uid=nmitchel Sarah Haley - https://afam.ucla.edu/faculty/sarah-haley/ Shana Redmond - https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/people/shana-redmond/ Ruthie Wilson Gilmore - https://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/core-bios/ruth-wilson-gilmore Dylan Rodriguez - https://twitter.com/dylanrodriguez?lang=en Sisters Uncut - http://www.sistersuncut.org/ Paul Gilroy - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/professor-paul-gilroy Gwendolyn Brooks - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks June Jordan - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/june-jordan Ashon Crawley - https://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/atc8g Frantz Fanon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon