Advocacy In HigherEd
Today after a few weeks of reading (I have been busy with community events lately so haven't had time to dedicate to reading) I finally finished Sara Ahmed's No! The Art and Activism of Complaining . This was a timely read for me because I have spent the last few weeks thinking about that article in The Chronicle about centres of teaching and learning, but also thinking about the continual violence of administrative silence (the only cool thing about that framing is that it rhymes and would make a good demonstration sign). When The Chronicle article came out there were two very strong reactions to it, one was we need some sort of written collective response, but the other reaction was let's ignore the petulant child. And neither of those reactions felt right to me because I think both of them ignore important parts of that piece for whatever it was attempting to do (besides be successful click bait). Because there were many actual important things raised in that article ...