Planting Flowers in the Fields: Honoring Football Literacies and Sending Love to Black Boys
I enter this writing as a Black woman. I am mothering four beautiful children—ages 13,11, 9, and 4—at the time of this writing. I am pursuing my doctoral degree at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) in the South and write this at a time when universities have...
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The Spiritual Debt of Artificial Intelligence
At the last wedding I went to, the groom’s godmother and the bride’s sister both used artificial intelligence to write their toasts. I know because—unlike my students, sheepish during our hushed conversations in the hallway—they freely admitted to it. In the...
Anti-Intellectualism as an American Fascist Literacy Practice: From Crisis Discourse to Community Learning
A little too often, we (Erin, Gavin, and Ruby) have conversations with colleagues, family, community members, as well as passersby who are concerned about the decline of literacy in the United States. Looking at the broader discourse, in just the past fourteen months,...