THE BECOMING RADICAL
EMPATHYEDUCATES!
the becoming radical
A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness
by
Nina Simone on the Role of the Artist
Originally posted on Beyond Capitalism Now: Nina Simone on the Role of the Artist Interviewer: You want your art to live on long after you View original
James Baldwin in the Spring of 1963
Originally posted on Beyond Capitalism Now: James Baldwin: Who is the Nigger? Well, I know this, and anyone who has ever tried to live knows this: what you say about somebody else, anybody else, reveals you. What I think of you as being is dictated by my own necessities, my own psychology, my own fears and desires. I’m not describing you when I talk about you. I am describing me. View origina
remnant 55: “your eyes are burning holes through me”
remnant 55: “your eyes are burning holes through me”.
FEB 19
Retain to Impede: When Reading Legislation Fails (Again)
I remember vividly during one of Bill Clinton’s State of the Union addresses watching the president state that he was seeking education policy that would insure that all third graders would be able to read; he did the emphatic fist with thumb slightly extended to prove he was serious. I also remember thinking—and possibly saying aloud to the TV—”No, they won’t.” It is a silly political thing to pr
Three Poems: For Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin
criminal acts (black&white) — justice — hoods (justice pt. 2)
FEB 18
The Analogy, Hyperbole Problem: “With explanation kind” (Tone, pt. 5)
Prologue I am a child of literature, more specifically of science fiction. As a result, I am also a child of allegory, metaphor, and the richness of layered language. Smitten as a reader, I eventually—and predictably—looked in the mirror and saw a writer. For almost four decades now, I have been chasing that image in the mirror, that writer I hope to be. So when I write—mostly non-fiction, mostly
FEB 17
Professors as Public Intellectuals: A Reader
With Professors, We Need You!, Nicholas Kristof makes a case for professors as public intellectuals: Professors today have a growing number of tools available to educate the public, from online courses to blogs to social media. Yet academics have been slow to cast pearls through Twitter and Facebook. Likewise, it was TED Talks by nonscholars that made lectures fun to watch (but I owe a shout-out t
FEB 16
The Mistrial of Jordan Davis: More Evidence Problems for Denying Racism
In On the Killing of Jordan Davis by Michael Dunn, Ta-Nehisi Coates confronts the injustice of simply being born an African American son: Jordan Davis had a mother and a father. It did not save him. Trayvon Martin had a mother and a father. They could not save him. My son has a father and mother. We cannot protect him from our country, which is our aegis and our assailant. We cannot protect our ch
FEB 15
remnant 54: “it starts with an earthquake”
remnant 54: “it starts with an earthquake”.