This is a “duh” statement, but there’s been a lot of talk recently about sexual assault, domestic abuse, violence against women. With so many high-profile cases, they’re nearly impossible topics to avoid. This is a conversation that we need to have—a conversation that lots of individuals, lots of organizations, lots of institutions need to discuss,…… Continue reading Support Systems
Some figures emerge from social movements as leaders of the people, whether they choose or accept these labels or not: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Desmond Tutu. Some movements are leader-less, their power decentralized and dispersed: the animal liberation movement, radical environmentalism, Occupy. Though I have read his essay…… Continue reading Role of the Leader in Social Movements
I recently got the chance to read Linda Adler-Kassner’s The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers. I have very little (read: no) background in WPA work, so it was nice to have the opportunity to read about a position that most writing instructors will hold at some point. What I enjoyed most about…… Continue reading The Activist WPA and a Skype Interview with Linda Adler-Kassner
Accessing Rhetoric 