Foundational Practices
Actions and Practices
The actions and practices shared below summarize the interconnected ways in which I enact the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion through practices of accessibility. I welcome the opportunity to share more about these on-going, ever evolving efforts.
- Offer multiple means of representation, expression, and engagment
- Customize communication
- Create, support, and amplify advocacy efforts
Resist and Refuse Ableism
Offer multiple means of representation, expression, and engagement
Through delivery of classroom materials, communication with internal and external stakeholders, and in scholarly efforts for myself and those I mentor.
Customize communication
By using video/audio feedback on projects (providing captions and transcripts) and requesting frequent feedback from collaborators on information delivery and revising as needed in a continual recursive model.
Create, support, and amplify advocacy efforts
Including working with both campus and community LGBTQ+ advocacy groups; providing collaborative mentoring projects for graduate students and emerging faculty; hosting campus faculty/staff workshops on principles and practices for thoughtful incorporation of social justice, queer, and intersectional feminist practices.
- Emphasize marginalized perspectives
- Model and facilitate collaboration and mentorship
- Author-centered citational practices
Intersectional Feminist Practice
Emphasize marginalized perspectives
Including using texts not frequently highlighted in standard field readings; connecting students with social advocacy efforts in all forms as possible; and asking all collaborators to consider perspectives not identical to their own in meaningful and reflective ways.
Model and facilitate collaboration and mentorship
Through providing professional development to emerging faculty for program specific content and in other cross disciplinary, university level projects; engaging in specific feedback practices for scholarly projects (for class and for larger interests); and asking students to create projects which can be published and distributed beyond the classroom context.
Author-centered citational practices
By using full names for initial citation to emphasize authorship. This is a model encountered through my editorial mentorship work with Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
- Value, create, and use open access scholarship
- Interrogate availability as open access bias
- Prioritize and facilitate open access philosophies
Access/ibility
Value, create, and use open access scholarship
By working to freely share my own scholarly and professional work in ways that are freely available and never behind a pay-wall or part of a subscription consortium; including using Creative Commons content and licensing.
Interrogate availability as open access bias
Through demonstrating and working to educate others that digital versions of texts are not automatically open access; advocating for accessiblity in all forms and situations - regardless of my own abilities.
Prioritize and facilitate open access philosophies
Including modeling and mentoring how to consider access/iblity as a fundamental principle of the composing process (not an afterthought) and working to acknowledge these practices enact a mindset (not an easily completed checklist).