For many, the results of the 2016 election brought a shock and much-needed wake-up call, as residents of the U.S.(and other nations across the world) faced a reality that can be easy to forget and ignore: White supremacy still reigns, both in the U.S. and abroad. While the results of the election appeared to surprise… Continue reading Guest Editors’ Introduction: Community Resistance, Justice, and Sustainability in the Face of Political Adversity by Isabel Baca, Laura Gonzalez, & Victor Del Hierro

In this article, we examine how Latinitas, a non-profit organization aimed towards empowering Latina youth through multimedia and technology, is a site of resistance. Latinitas provides linguistic, cultural, and technological resources as means to promote empowerment in the Latinx community, thereby creating and nurturing a space for Latinx youth. This article is written by two… Continue reading Youth Activism and Community Writing by Latina Youth by Jasmine Villa & Taylor Figueroa

This paper presents some of the difficulties and challenges that a writing instructor faced when integrating themes of race, gender, and sexuality into her pedagogy, as well as strategies that she developed to address those challenges. The author discusses the merits of building a pedagogy from what Alcoff (2000) refers to as “social location,” despite… Continue reading Understanding Intersectional Resistance Practices in Online Spaces: A Pedagogical Framework by Lehua Ledbetter

The field of working-class studies is particularly relevant in these times, when access to equitable education is under fire. With regard to race, Nikole Hannah-Jones’s (2016) essay in the New York Times Magazine raised our awareness regarding the institutionalized segregation that cripples our New York City schools. At the same time, scholars like Sherry Linkon… Continue reading Review: Class in the Composition Classroom: Pedagogy and the Working Class, Eds. Genesea M. Carter and William H. Thelin by Laurie Cella

In this article, we tell stories from our own research experiences to demonstrate the need for a set of methodological tools within Rhet/Comp that is more fully responsive to the ethical challenges of working with traumatized communities. Drawing on feminist and indigenous approaches, we propose a methodological toolkit for trauma-related research to reduce participant risk.… Continue reading Research as Care: A Shared Ownership Approach to Rhetorical Research in Trauma Communities by Maria Novotny & John T. Gagnon