Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Dec 2023 Open Access

An Unglamorous Queercrip Account of Failure in the Writing Lincoln Initiative

Keshia Mcclantoc ; Ada Hubrig

Abstract

Drawing on their embodied experiences as queer disabled graduate students directing a student-founded, student-led community literacy program, this article foregrounds queercrip embodied experiences to reinterpret normative notions of failure in community literacy programs. Using our own experiences as queer disabled graduate students directing the community literacy program, queer and disability theory, and community literacy studies scholarship, the authors unpack their own stories of failure and argue, through queercrip readings of that failure, that failure should be seen as generative, as relational, and as bound by institutional perspective.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2023-12-14
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10.59236/rjv23i1pp56-90
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graduate education literacy studies disability studies community literacy body and rhetoric
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