Since 2016, we have borne witness to an authoritarian leader who has wielded words to shape our national consciousness about people of color, women, immigrants, and disabled people in ways that have ignited the extreme right, resulting in a rise in hate crimes, the loss of protections for LGBTQ+ people, and, harrowingly, the indefinite detention… Continue reading Response to Activism and Academia in Community Work

This article suggests that the framework of prison abolition in prison literacy studies should be developed through the relational potential of queer community literacy practices among incarcerated writers. To that end, the author presents findings from a critical discourse analysis of a newspaper by incarcerated LGBTQ+ writers. Three primary forms of audience address and rhetorical… Continue reading (Anti)Prison Literacy: Queering Community Writing through an Abolitionist Stance by Rachel Lewis

Last week, as I was packing up my books after my Women’s Literature class, a female student stayed behind to visit. She’s a particularly bright, engaged student who makes thoughtful comments in class and often stays behind to ask questions and talk about her many writing and research projects. As we stood in the hallway,… Continue reading Review of Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies Activism in the GirlZone by Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau by Laurie JC Cella

While service learning can be compatible with feminist objectives, if the service does not contribute to structural change or help students understand their role in facilitating change, it can replicate patriarchal goals and run counter to feminism (Ludlow). In this article, we show the way we utilized a feminist lens when designing and implementing a… Continue reading Service Learning as Social Justice Activism: Students Help a Campus Shift to Bystander Awareness by Irene Lietz & Erin Tunney

Since its founding, the Hetrick-Martin Institute has grown from a small, volunteer-led grass-roots advocacy organization into a leading professional provider of social support and programming for at-risk lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning (LGBTQ) youth. Hetrick-Martin youth members, ranging in age from 12 to 21, come from 174 zip codes throughout all of New York… Continue reading Student Work from Harvey Milk High School by Sam Stiegler

In Queer Rhetorics, an upper-division service-learning writing course: taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2005, students used queer theory to frame their engagement with local LGBTQ non-profit, organizations in Boulder. In their journals, students moved from responding personally to the course material and their volunteer work to generating their own critical inquiries… Continue reading Queer Rhetorics and Service-Learning: Reflection as Critical Engagement by Geoffrey W. Bateman

At the start of my junior year this semester, Professor McCracken asked our class whether or not we identified as feminists. I hesitated before raising my hand. I knew that I wanted to be a feminist but I was afraid that if I was questioned further about what it means to be a feminist, I… Continue reading Discovering Feminisms: A Cross-Cultural Analysis for Deeper Understanding by Amanda Sliby

Angela Y. Davis is Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. In 1998 she founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. Her activism and scholarship engages with Feminism, Marxism, and African American studies. Benjamin D. Kuebrich met with Professor Davis at… Continue reading Interview with Angela Y. Davis by Benjamin D. Kuebrich