My Favorite Things of 2016:

Just because . . .

Visual:

Los Punks: We Are All We Have (doc Netflix)
Atlanta (tv)
Stranger Things (netflix)
Orange is the New Black (S.4 Netflix)
Mr. Robot (S2 tv)

Narcos (S2 Netflix)
Straight Outta Compton (HBO-i didn’t see it in theaters)
Kenan Thompson as big papi on SNL
Born to be Blue (movie)

Requiem for The American Dream (Netflix)
Tribe Call Quest on SNL performance (tv)
The 13th (Netflix)
Insecure (HBO)

Audible:

Coloring Book—Chance the Rapper

Untitled Unmastered, Kendrick Lamar
The Hamilton Original Cast Soundtrack
Blood sweat by Plague Vender
Epic by Kamasi Washington
Coloring Book—Chance the Rapper
Formation-Beyonce
Black Star-David Bowie
WTF Podcast
Men In Blazers podcast

Reading:

Counterpunch
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks (reread)
Jacobin
The Guardian
M Train, Patti Smith
On Critical Pedagogy, Henry Giroux

Teaching & Learning:

Portable dry erase boards for my students
CritLib in Tucson,Arizona
@dropvase throwing down the gauntlet at ACRLNY Symposium
on Money & Power
Naomi Klein @ Stevens
Working with Books Through Bars, NYC

Highlight:

Class Struggle & Resistance:
Black Lives Matter, Election 2016, Bernie Sanders, North Dakota Access Pipeline

The West of Coast of the USA