@935Curr I have tried to speak up when I hear any of the -isms from colleagues. It has led to some frankly uncomfortable conversations. But change has to start somewhere.
@cmachado3@935Curr @DeafOn4Wheels It’s an ongoing discussion I have tried to have with our English department to try to add books that are more representative. It’s gone nowhere for years - very frustrating!
@john_hardesty16 @935Curr Agreed! At moments, I feel better overwhelmed at all I do not know. But then I remember it’s all a process and we are all IN process.
Stop being a “Wikipedia expert” to people who have invaluable LIVED EXPERIENCE. Karen, idc what you saw on Google or YouTube, many of us know our diseases very well, and many of us hold professional licenses and accreditations to show for it. 3/5
@935Curr I am uncomfortable hearing about the “bootstrap narrative” because it is demonstrably false. Yet for many years teaching American lit, I used it as an example.
@KogaChilume@935Curr@samanthavasy I have had classes of learning support students in the past and they are amazing! Kids who generally hate English who eventually figure out they can do it - it’s really great!
@935Curr “Normal is the line drawn around an arbitrary set of ideas a group determines as acceptable in a given place and time” (Sensoy &DiAngelo, 2017, p. 85).