by Bandt | Jul 28, 2026 | The Sandbox, Volume 2 • Issue 2
Present When my daughter is four, I return to the town where she was born. I return for an ending. I return for a ceremony. As we drive, I am all pointy fingers—”there’s the green house, the striped hammock, the duck pond.” My body remembers humidity as my...
by Bandt | Jun 21, 2026 | The Sandbox, Volume 2 • Issue 2
Title image: Deborah Lupton / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ As two teacher-scholars working in Arkansas, we have participated in many conversations about the so-called inevitability of generative AI and what higher...
by Bandt | Jun 17, 2026 | The Sandbox, Volume 2 • Issue 2
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...
by Bandt | May 12, 2026 | The Sandbox, Volume 2 • Issue 2
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...
by Bandt | Apr 23, 2026 | The Sandbox, Volume 2 • Issue 2
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,...
by Bandt | Apr 17, 2026 | The Sandbox, Volume 2 • Issue 2
Peace. When I first started writing corresponding rap lyrics in the margins while notetaking, I didn’t recognize that those rhymes were a second set of notes provided by my community about the subject. I didn’t understand that those bars were theorizing...
