Protest Walking as Antiracist Pedagogy

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Abstract

For many, the salient period following the death of George Floyd revealed racism as an urgent and persistent matter of concern experienced in multiple, uneven, and entangled ways. During 100 consecutive days of Black-Lives-Matter protests in Portland, Oregon, protesters walked alongside other protesters, in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah and Clackamas peoples, and with/in material entanglements of wind, smoke, tear gas, and well-documented legacies of racial violence. In this paper, I advance Protest Walking, which includes preparing to walk, intentional pauses and stoppings such as the group "die-in," and speaker practices of testifying-witnessing, as a pedagogical method for unraveling settler-colonialist legacies of racism and re-storying collective, relational futures for multispecies ways of living and learning.

Author

• Angela Molloy Murphy, University of Melbourne