Brainstorm 6 - Clarissa Lunday

In "Ceremony as Memory", Patrisia Gonzales discusses technology as a form of resilience practices in Indigenous knowledge. Gonzales writes, "Mesoamerican cultures had complex, integrated communication systems that included books or visual writing systems known as amoxtli in Nahuatl as well as oral traditions and performance of texts" (p. 72). While the Holy Office had destroyed much of the books produced, the technology that was most relevant was oral traditions. Gonzales writes, "...the colonizers did not gain complete control of oral memory that circulates within families and communities" (p. 73).

In "Girl in a Coma Tweets Chicanafuturism", Michelle Habell-Pallan, quoting Ramirez, writes "Chicanafutureism as Chicana cultural production 'attends to cultural transformation resulting from new and everyday technologies...'" (p. 162). Not only does Girl in a Coma use the oral tradition technology with their music, they also use new forms of technology that includes visual writing systems, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, to keep with the resilience practices embedded in Indigenous knowledge and share it with others as a form of decolonizing.