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GSS · Interactive Pedagogy

INTERACTIVE
PEDAGOGY

Open-access course materials, radical pedagogical praxis, and student co-creation at the intersection of race, technology, and knowledge production.

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About This Project

Global South Solidarities: Interactive Pedagogy makes openly accessible the complete materials—syllabi, resources, weekly assignments, and student work (shared with excited permission)—for five graduate and undergraduate English courses taught and designed by Bibhushana Poudyal at Washington State University. The project extends the mission of the Global South Solidarities Anarchive (GSS), an open-access digital humanities initiative that amplifies voices and knowledges silenced by colonial, heteropatriarchal, and capitalist frameworks.

"GSS: Interactive Pedagogy" transforms the anarchive from a space of preservation into a dynamic, living pedagogy. By opening the complete framework of these courses, we model teaching as an act of solidarity. The project's interactivity is twofold: materials are designed for global remix and adaptation, breaking proprietary barriers, while the inclusion of student work positions students as co-creators of knowledge, creating a recursive loop where classroom inquiry enriches the anarchive and fuels future teaching.

The courses themselves interrogate power across technological, archival, and rhetorical domains. Graduate seminars examine AI as a biopolitical tool of engineered oppression; probe the rhetoricity of technologies and archives as sites for anti-oppressive intervention; and center antiracist pedagogies that actively dismantle racism. Undergraduate courses trace the rhetorics of racism to expose how discourse constructs racial hierarchies, while engaging antiracist rhetorics and feminist worldmaking to foreground practices of resistance and the imaginative labor of building just futures. Together, these courses move from critique to construction, from analyzing oppression to enacting solidarity through liberatory imaginaries. This project embodies open scholarship by treating the entire academic lifecycle—from syllabus design to student output—as a living commons, cultivating a transnational community bound to the justice and anti-oppression at the heart of Global South solidarities.

Recognizing that reliable internet access and bandwidth are not universal, we offer printable and downloadable versions of all materials upon request. Please contact us to request these alternate formats at GlobalSouthSolidarities[@]gmail[dot]com.
ENG 548 — Graduate Seminar

AI, Biopolitics
& Engineered Oppression

An interrogation of artificial intelligence as a site of biopolitical control, surveillance capitalism, and racialized governance — and the possibilities of counter-archival resistance.

What's Inside
Assignments

500 points total — three majors stacked on weekly low-stakes work.

◆ Points Distribution
Reading Response
100
Scaffolding
100
Mid-Sem Presentation
100
Project Proposal
50
Topic Analysis
100
Final Project
150
Σ 500 pts · A: 93.4–100
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Readings

A sample from the indicative course material — required and recommended titles.

  • Mbembe, A. — Necropolitics (Duke UP, 2019) Primary text
  • Benjamin, R. — Race After Technology (Polity, 2019)
  • Browne, S. — Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Duke UP, 2015)
  • Zuboff, S. — The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (PublicAffairs, 2019)
  • Noble, S. U. — Algorithms of Oppression (NYU Press, 2018)
  • Foucault, M. — The Birth of Biopolitics (1978–79 Lectures)
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Assigned Materials

Week-by-week themes — two tasks due every Wednesday midnight.

Week 01Foundations — Biopolitics, Necropolitics & AI
Week 02Colonial Legacies & Racial Science in Tech
Week 03Surveillance of Blackness & Social Control
Week 04Predictive Policing & Algorithmic Injustice
Week 05The Carceral Continuum — Prison Tech to Everyday Life
Week 06Health, Medicine & Biopower
Week 07Data Capitalism, Digital Profiling & Inequality
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Student Prototype

An interactive student-built research dossier — a critical analysis of ICE + AI Surveillance, tracing the continuum from 1850s slave catchers to today's Flock cameras and automated deportation pipelines.

The prototype reads as a classified field-report: scroll-driven hand-drawn timelines, FBI-style file badges, redacted-style "key insights," and follow-the-money diagrams connecting Flock Safety, Palantir, and private prison companies.

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Data Visualizations

Four charts built from real, citable data — the evidence behind the course's arguments.

◆ COMPAS · High-Risk Flagging by Race
Broward County, FL · n = 7,214 · ProPublica 2016
Black defendants
45%
White defendants
23%
≈ 2× the rate · identical criminal histories
◆ Big Tech → Pentagon · Share of Federal Contracts to DoD
Digital Destroyers · bigtechsellswar.com
Google
61%
Microsoft
40%
Amazon
38%
◆ NSA SKYNET · Algorithmic Kill Chain
The Intercept · The Drone Papers (2015)
01Phone metadata · 55M users
02Behavioral model
03Flag & rank targets
04Strike authorized
0.008%
precision rate — roughly 99.99% of targets could be innocent civilians.
◆ Facial Recognition · Error Rates by Demographic
Buolamwini & Gebru · Gender Shades · MIT 2018
Light-skinned men
0.0%
Light-skinned women
7.1%
Dark-skinned men
12.0%
Dark-skinned women
34.7%
Microsoft · IBM · Face++ systems tested
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Policies
  • Attendance — make reasonable efforts; communicate early if life happens.
  • Late Work — extensions granted without penalty if requested 2+ days ahead.
  • Inclusion & Accessibility — no documentation required to request accommodation.
  • Life First — this class is one part of your life, not all of it.
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AI Policy

Permitted — AI for personalized learning, brainstorming, study organization, group facilitation. All output must be critically assessed and cited.

Prohibited — AI-generated work submitted as original, AI in exams, generating impersonation content or scraping classmates' data.

Disclosure required — every use of AI must be disclosed and cited per APA / MLA.

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ENG 548 — Graduate Seminar

Archives, Rhetoricity
& Anti-Oppressive Interventions

Investigating archives as contested sites of power — and as potential technologies of liberation, memory, and counter-hegemonic knowledge production.

What's Inside
Poetry

Two opening poems anchoring the course's affective register on memory, witness, and refusal.

  • "Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying" Noor Hindi
  • "Oh Rascal Children of Gaza" Khaled Juma
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Workshop

A Global South Solidarities workshop strand woven through the seminar — collaborative archive-building exercises, decolonial methods, and pedagogical experiments that move from critique into practice.

Workshop sessions sit alongside the readings and feed directly into the major archival projects.

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Books

Required textbooks — additional materials provided on Canvas.

An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz · 2018
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · 2015
Urgent Archive: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work
Michelle Caswell · 2023 · Open Access
Afterlives of Indigenous Archives
Schweitzer & Henry Jr. · 2019 · Open Access
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Assignments

500 points · three majors that build sequentially into a final intervention.

◆ Points Distribution
Scribbling Response
100
Two Archival Examples
100
Project Proposal
50
Archival Rhetorics
100
Final Project
150
Σ 500 pts
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Readings

Weekly readings are grouped by module — archive theory, rhetorical studies, decolonial methodology, and grassroots / community-archive case studies. Each week's reading list pairs theoretical anchors with primary artifacts.

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Schedule

A week-by-week timeline with topics, workshop sessions, guest visits, and due dates. The schedule is built to flex with the semester — major changes communicated in class and via email.

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Policies
  • Attendance — show up, but life happens; communicate early.
  • Late Work — extensions without penalty if requested in advance.
  • Inclusion & Accessibility — no documentation required.
  • Life First — this class is one slice of your life.
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AI Policy

Permitted — brainstorming, learning support, research ideation. Output must be critically assessed and cited.

Prohibited — AI-generated work passed off as original; AI in exams; impersonation or data scraping.

Disclosure required — every use of AI must be disclosed per APA / MLA.

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Interactive Course PageExplore Full Course
Graduate Seminar

Comparative Anti-racist
Pedagogies

A comparative examination of anti-racist pedagogical traditions across global contexts — tracing the convergences and tensions between decolonial, abolitionist, and critical race approaches to education and knowledge production.

What's Inside
Weekly Materials

Sample week themes — each unit pairs primary readings, films, and a reading response.

Week 01Intro & Transnational Solidarities
Week 02Prison-Industrial Complex & Abolition / On Violence
Week 03Critical Pedagogy
Week 04Tech Industry & Surveillance / Border Knowledge
Week 05Land Back & Rematriation
Week 06Queer Rights, Homonationalism & Global South Feminisms
Week 07Reproductive Justice & Disability Justice
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Assignments

Three majors build sequentially across the semester, plus weekly low-stakes work.

◆ Major Assignments — Points
Project Proposal
50
Comparative Analysis
100
Final Project
150
Plus weekly reading responses & discussion
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Recommended Readings

A curated reading list for deeper study across decolonial, abolitionist, and critical-race traditions — texts referenced in lectures but not required for completion of the course.

Includes work by Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, and others — organized to extend each weekly unit.

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Policies
  • Attendance — be present in mind and body; communicate when life intervenes.
  • Late Work — extensions granted without penalty if requested ahead.
  • Accessibility — no documentation required to request accommodation.
  • Life First — your wellbeing is not negotiable.
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AI Policy

Permitted — AI for ideation, organization, brainstorming. Critically assess and cite all output.

Prohibited — AI-generated assignments as original work, AI in exams, impersonation content.

Disclosure required — all AI use must be disclosed per APA / MLA.

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Interactive Course PageExplore Full Course
Undergraduate — English

Rhetorics
of Racism

An analysis of how racism operates rhetorically — through language, image, law, and digital infrastructure — and how these discourses are resisted and reimagined.

What's Inside
Textbook

Required text — any edition acceptable. Other assigned materials provided on Canvas.

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Angela Y. Davis · 2016

Davis exposes the deep entanglement of racism with capitalism, colonialism, and state violence — a foundational framework for the entire course.

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Grading

500 points total · standard A–F scale.

◆ Points Distribution
Reading Response
100
Discussion Posts
100
Project Proposal
50
Analysis of Materials
100
Final Project & Video
150
Σ 500 pts
◆ Grade Scale
F D C B A
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Assignments

Weekly reading responses and discussion posts scaffold into three major projects: a proposal identifying your chosen rhetorical site, a deep analytical engagement with that site's materials, and a final video-presented project.

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Schedule

Sample week topics across the term.

Week 01Combating Dehumanization of the Global South
Week 02Transnational Solidarities
Week 03Global South Feminisms & Imperialist Feminism
Week 04Queer Rights & Homonationalism
Week 05Prison-Industrial Complex & Abolition
Week 06Big Tech Sells War
Week 07Tech Industry & Surveillance
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Policies
  • Attendance — communicate early if life intervenes.
  • Late Work — extensions granted in advance, no penalty.
  • Accessibility — no documentation required.
  • Life First — course exists alongside the rest of your life.
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AI Policy

Permitted — brainstorming, learning support; output must be cited.

Prohibited — AI-generated work as original, AI in exams, impersonation.

Disclosure required — all AI use disclosed per APA / MLA.

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Interactive Course PageExplore Full Course
Undergraduate — English · Sample Course

Antiracist Rhetorics
& Feminist Worldmaking

A course at the intersection of antiracist rhetoric and feminist praxis — exploring how language, narrative, and collective imagination become tools for building worlds beyond the logics of racial capitalism and heteropatriarchy.

What's Inside
Questions

Four recurring questions guiding our theories, praxes, and learning.

  • How can we live and act in ways that honor the full humanity and dignity of those whose lives are marginalized or erased?
  • How might our pedagogical and institutional practices transform slogans like "Black lives matter" into material conditions of liberation?
  • How do colonialism, racial capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and ableism structure everyday life — and how can rhetoric refuse them?
  • What responsibilities do we carry in building solidarities that cross borders, identities, and disciplines?
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Outcomes

Six learning outcomes climbing Bloom's taxonomy from remembering to creating.

◆ Cognitive Ladder
Identify
Explain
Apply
Decon-
struct
Critique
Produce
  • Identify key concepts in anti-racist, feminist, and decolonial rhetorical traditions.
  • Apply intersectional and transnational frameworks to rhetorical artifacts.
  • Produce original multimodal projects for justice, care, and global solidarity.
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Films

Ten films analyzed across the term — six previewed below.

01
The Battle of Algiers
1966 · Pontecorvo
02
Daughters of the Dust
1991 · Julie Dash
04
No One Knows About Persian Cats
2009 · Ghobadi
05
La Haine
1995 · Kassovitz
08
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners
2012 · Lynch
09
Sorry to Bother You
2018 · Boots Riley
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Grading

485 points total · low-stakes weekly work + three major assignments.

◆ Points Distribution
Reading Response
65
Scaffolding
120
Project Proposal
50
Rhetorical Analysis
100
Final Project
150
Σ 485 pts
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Discussion

Weekly discussion threads frame the term's readings and films through anti-racist feminist questions — prompts open to interpretation, collaborative meaning-making, and dissent.

Discussion norms emphasize relational accountability and learning with rather than at one another.

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Calendar

A semester-long schedule mapping readings, films, discussions, and project deliverables across weeks. The calendar is built to flex — major changes communicated in class and via email.

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Policies
  • Attendance — communicate early if life intervenes.
  • Late Work — extensions granted in advance, no penalty.
  • Accessibility — no documentation required.
  • Life First — your emotional and mental wellbeing matters.
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AI Policy

Permitted — ideation, learning support, drafting; all output critically assessed and cited.

Prohibited — AI-generated work as original, AI in exams, impersonation content.

Disclosure required — all AI use disclosed per APA / MLA.

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GSS Initiative — Digital Humanities

Digital & Multimodal
Tools & Resources

A curated list of digital and multimodal tools, methods, and resources for digital humanities project building — collected as part of the Global South Solidarities initiative.

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Interactive Resource PageExplore Digital Tools
Ongoing & Archival Work

COLLECTIVE
PRAXIS

Collaborative teaching, archival, and fellowship work that extends beyond the classroom — connecting students, scholars, and communities across disciplines, institutions, and geographies.

Archive
Archive Students' Work

A living collection of student-created archival projects from the Archive Studies graduate seminar — digital narratives, curated collections, and multimodal interventions developed in collaboration with community partners and public archives.

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Ongoing
AI Class — Ongoing Collaborations

Collaborative projects emerging from the AI, Biopolitics & Engineered Oppression seminar — connecting graduate student research to public scholarship, community advocacy, and digital activism around algorithmic justice.

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Ongoing — 2025–2026
Digital Storytelling & Global South Solidarities Fellowship Program

Launched in 2025–2026 as part of the Digital Storytelling and Global South Solidarities project, supported by a New Faculty Seed Grant at Washington State University. The fellowship is a year-long program designed for South Asian scholars committed to decolonial, feminist, queer, and anticolonial knowledge production.

The inaugural cohort brought together South Asian scholars from Washington State University, across the United States, and around the world — graduate students, early-career researchers, and community-engaged intellectuals whose work has long been marginalized within conventional academic structures. The fellowship operates on a simple but radical premise: that the scholars most qualified to document and theorize Global South struggles are often the ones least supported by academic institutions. Fellows receive modest compensation for their contributions — an acknowledgment that intellectual labor, especially when it emerges from minoritized and diasporic communities, deserves material recognition. Over the course of the year, fellows develop multimodal, public-facing projects housed on the open-access Global South Solidarities anarchive website. These projects take many forms: digital narratives, curated archival materials, pedagogical resources, multimedia essays, and creative works that refuse the boundaries between scholarship and art, between theory and practice.
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Student Work
Student
Contributions

Digital narratives, curated archives, multimodal interventions, and counter-archival projects — created by graduate and undergraduate students across semesters of collaborative, anti-oppressive inquiry.

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