Blog #8 Eve Tuck, Suspending Damage

 Blog #8 What does this TUCK article raise for you? How does it help you think about yourself and others?

Eve Tuck's Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities article discusses how damage-centered research documents people's pain and brokenness to hold those in power accountable for their oppression. This article raises the question of "why?" Why is discrimination and oppression a thing in 2024?

Eve's article also addresses how Indigenous people, along with Black and Latino minorities, are still waiting

for the complete eradication of racial discrimination. A true equality amongst all people. It is sad to say we are in 2024, and we are STILL talking about racial discrimination and oppression. It is very relevant today; just look at the presidential election. I know there are people out there who won't vote for Kamala not because of the issues that she is backing but because she is a woman and a minority; that's two strikes against her for certain people. 

This article makes me think of Eve's language positivity in the research method she chose to use in this article. During my research, I will refrain from using the wrong language to describe a population and the issues that they may be going through. As Eve says, I can use research that invites oppressed people to speak from a space of deprivation, a wound, unfulfilled longing, and pain.(p413)