Speaking Truth to Power These days, being a radical feminist carries its own baggage, above and beyond the ancient canard of being “man haters.” Who wants to be associated with TERFs and their ilk, after all? – who, in the opinion of this radical feminist, at any rate, have utterly abandoned the principles of radical … Continue reading Radical Femininity in the Classroom: Pushing Back Against Dominant Narratives
Category: Diversity in the Classroom
queering participation
Artwork from Target.com/Pillowfort Embedded in “queer” is the notion of disruption, so what does this mean for participation and our relationship to it as instructors? -Matthew Cox What does it mean to be “queer”? In “Queering Student Participation: Whispers, Echoes, Rants, and Memory,” Matthew Cox defines queer in two main ways: first, as a catch-all term for anyone who’s … Continue reading queering participation
Participation and Feminist Intervention
Subversive Gru Chapter 10 in The Rhetoric of Participation, titled “Participation as Reflective Practice: Digital Composing and Feminist Pedagogy,” begins with the idea that “knowledge making [is] situated and relational,” a central tenet of feminist pedagogy. Jason Palmeri and Abby Dubisar, the authors of this chapter, choose to position their argument in terms of the relationship … Continue reading Participation and Feminist Intervention
Barbara Shaddix 