Keeping Kids in the Classroom: Or; What Is Radical Pedagogy?
Derik, one of the students in the sixth grade class with which I work, has been struggling since the beginning of the school year. He has a violent home life, […]
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No Justice, No Peace: Challenging ‘Diversity’ and Embracing Conflict
A teaching program of which I was recently a part held a ‘Diversity Day’ early on in the program’s duration. The goal of the day was to give the community […]
Getting Concrete: Making Radical Politics Real
The other day, during the last block of time before we broke for lunch, the teacher in whose classroom I am currently shadowing asked his students to describe in their […]
What’s Wrong with Being Militant?
The African American Studies program in which I majored at my university was founded–like countless other Black, Brown and Ethnic Studies Departments–as the result of student, staff and faculty organizing. […]
Identifying as Mixed-Class: Or; Why Does ‘Diversity’ Tend to Leave Out Economics?
My parents met in their freshman year of college. My white mother had arrived from a wealthy Chicago suburb, was the daughter of a professor, and from a long line […]
An Introduction: Why I Use the Word ‘Faggot’
As an undergraduate, I majored in African American Studies, I program which was chronically understaffed, underfunded and under-supported by my diversity-touting university. During one of my introductory courses, the professor […]
Radical Faggot 