On the agenda today is true masterpiece of reality television, Below Deck: Mediterranean! Specifically: Season 6 Episode 16, "Sleepless in Croatia," which I've happily taught a few times now in my first-year cultural studies courses. 

Topics today include: surveying the realities of the superyachting industry, teaching emotional and affective labour, and cringing hard at the talent show the guests forcibly instruct the crew to put on. Come talk tv with me!

• Arlie Hochschild's interview in The Atlantic
• @âpihtawikosisân on Twitter / Chelsea Vowel's website / her tweet on "believing" the fires
• Urban Indigenous Collective and a link to donate to their work

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Heeeey y'all: Teachin' Books is back to production after a longer-than-expected hiatus, and today I'm talkin' about REST.  

More specifically: how an enforced rest-by-injury shaped my teaching practices in the last six months, including newly grappling with the "pace" of sound teaching and confronting the ableist dimensions of teaching and learning. I also share a bit about my Labour, Justice, and the Cultural Lives of Working People class, including a labour inventory exercise that I'm thinking about turning into a...  rest inventory?! 

Hit play on the episode to hear more, then get in touch with me to tell me your thoughts and practices around ~rest~ in teaching and learning! 

• Tricia Hersey's The Nap Ministry  (& her 2022 book, Rest is Resistance)
• Audre Lorde's A Burst of Light and Other Essays  / The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (ed. Roxane Gay, & which Hersey includes in "The Nap Ministry Library" from Rest is Resistance)
• Sarah Jaffe's Work Won't Love You Back
• Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) & their statement "Equitable Action Needed for Indigenous Communities Impacted by Alberta and Saskatchewan Wildfires"
• Central Urban Métis Federation Inc. (CUMFI)'s call for donations of supplies
• Official East Prairie Métis Settlement Fire Relief donation fund
• Official Fox Lake Fire Evacuees donation fund
• Canadian Red Cross 2023 Alberta Fires Appeal

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The podcast music is by Dyalla Swain and the graphics are by @muskrathands. 

 **The transcript for this episode, once available , will be here.**

Today's episode involves our first ever comic on Teachin' Books! I'm excited to share with you  how I teach Kate Beaton's webcomic Ducks, which you should definitely read right now, if you haven't already.

Topics of the episode include: confronting environmental and social justice through literature, i.e. through visual and textual analysis; teaching within and around public narratives about Fort McMurray; reading text alongside paratext; and celebrating the effectiveness of a discussion forum prompt that was actually successful (!!). Listen in and tell me what you think!

• Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands / original five-part series / Hark! A Vagrant
• Aritha van Herk's "There’s more to Fort McMurray than oil sands – It’s a real community"
• Anti-Racism on the Prairies: A Workbook for Canadian Settlers (with thanks, again, to SURJ #yxe for sharing this Call for Contributions)

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The podcast music is by Dyalla Swain and the graphics are by @muskrathands.

Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram @TeachinBooksPod. You can also get in touch at teachinbookspod@gmail.com.  Please share the pod with someone you think might like it, and rate and review if you have the option to in your podcasting app! :)

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