Question
This essay’s conclusion quotes a poem by Craig Santos Perez about “when you take away the punctuation” to illustrate how its central concept “is not an ‘and’. It is an elsewhere.” Building on the work of Janet Mawhinney, this essay enumerates six “moves to innocence” including adoption fantasies, “conscientization,” and simultaneously viewing a group as “at risk” and “asterisk.” This essay uses pronouns like “we/they” and “our/their” to reflect the different positioning of its (*) co-authors. This essay forwards an “ethic of incommensurability” in order to “remind readers what is unsettling about” its central concept. This essay’s epigraph is taken from The Wretched of the Earth and notes that “no phraseology can be a substitute for reality.” For 10 points, name this essay by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang about the importance of materially redressing settler colonialism. ■END■
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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| 2025 RMP Fest Online Mirror | 05/31/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 122.75 |
| 2025 RMP Fest Carleton Mirror | 07/13/25 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 115.00 |
| 2025 RMP Fest CO Mirror | 08/10/25 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 50% | 125.50 |