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Singing the Same Song: Engaging Families in Read Two Impress Plus
(Wiley, 2022-05-04)Read Two Impress Plus (R2I+) is a fluency-building routine involving students and a more experienced reader in an echo reading process using culturally and linguistically authentic texts. R2I+ was offered as a partnershi ... -
Retrospective Storytelling, Meaning-making, and Generativity (the passing down of wisdom): Black Intergenerational Stories About Love
(2022-01-01)The lived experiences of Black people are dynamic and, as such, there are many powerful, diverse, and intimate stories that provide insight into those experiences. Recent narrative research suggests that humans process ... -
Rhetorics of Transformation: Centering the Experiences of Young People to Create Youth Agency and Positive Change
(2022-01-01)Education inequality continues to grow and persist in the United States despite the efforts of reformers and policymakers. One reason for this persistence is what the Scholar Gloria Ladson-Billings describes as the education ... -
The Importance of Objectivity in Biomedical Discourse and Practice: A Critical Analysis
(2022-01-01)The concept of objectivity has been the cornerstone of biomedical practice since the 18th century. Despite the common perception of objectivity as the basis for fact-based reasoning and evidential truths, this dissertation ... -
Unpacking Race-Related Trauma for Black Boys: Implications for School Administrators and School Resource Officers
(Journal of Trauma Studies in Education, 2022-12-31)Black boys in K-12 schools in the United States (US) are more likely to be suspended, expelled, and have an encounter with law enforcement leading to arrest in comparison to other racial/gender groups. Far ... -
ARE BLACK WOMEN CISGENDER? ANALYZING BRAZILIAN BLACKGENDER INTERVENTIONS
(Universidade de Brasília, 2022-12-27)In this essay, I place Black trans* and Black feminist theorists from across the Améfricas in conversation to consider a question: is a Black woman who was classified as female at birth the same as a white woman who was ... -
Mother Siege
(The Offing, 2019-09-18) -
DO NOT RISE BY BETH BACHMANN
(The Rumpus, 2016-02-12) -
Myself and Strangers: Fragments and Thresholds in Sahar Muradi's [ G A T E S ]
(University of Southern Indiana, 2017) -
Dancing in September
(Sixth Finch, 2018) -
Keegan Cook Finberg, excerpts from The Thought of Preservation
(X-Peri, 2019-07-09) -
All the women in the state of Texas
(The Believer, 2017-11-20) -
Myself and Strangers: Surviving 2017 with Poetry
(University of Southern Indiana, 2017) -
What Has Literature Ever Done for You?
(LARB, 2019-09-16) -
Toward an embodied critique: A review of Louis Bury's 'Exercises in Criticism'
(Jacket2, 2015-10-20) -
Figuring an Ethical Reading Practice: Anne Carson’s ‘Whaching’
(Universidad de Huelva, 2013)