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Our last couple of weeks!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Thanks to Jules for completing our presentation series with a thoughtful engagement of Bi, Butch, and Bar Dyke: Pedagogical Performances of Class, Gender, and Sexuality <\/a>by Michelle Gibson, Matha Marinara, and Deborah Meem. \u201cWe must think seriously about identities we bring with us into the classroom, remain conscious of the way those identities interact with the identities our students bring, and insert ourselves fully into the shifting relationships between ourselves and our students at the same time that we resist the impulse to control those relationships.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this reading, we further explored the role that voice plays in writing \u2013 specifically that it is connected to both embodiment and subjectivity<\/em>.  (Voices via bodies<\/em> are metaphors \u2013 marked and read in particular ways, bearing the sway of power and politics.)  Thinking about the link between voice & identity, and the yearning\/reach for authenticity and \u201ctrue self\u201d -We have covered much ground regarding the important link between vulnerability, voice, and empowerment.  If vulnerability is an important seed for authentic learning, then it is the writing process (and finding a voice within that process) that serves as a middle ground to help steady us on our own terms as we continue on a  somewhat risky journey.  We also spoke a bit about the potent potential of silence in a pedagogical context (who should come out, in what context and why??).  Perhaps not talking (to wait and listen, to be willing to let the silence hang in the air) has generative power.  Perhaps ironically, silence can be an important way to learn to communicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our class agenda:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n