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Mourn the martyrs: On the Death of the good Renee Good

I don’t know what is going to happen, in terms of us, the people, holding to solidarity, visionary actions, and sustaining our coalition and ourselves in the face of this brutal rising dictatorship in the U.S., but I do know this–those who are grabbing power are not waiting for the ballot. They are using bullets.…

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Community Organizing in 2025 Requires a Whole of Society Approach

I have been thinking about how we concerned with community change need a new approach that matches our current circumstances. I teach an Introduction to Community Change course. It’s a Humanities course, and I use a great book, Twitter and Teargas, by Zeynep Tefekci, as a core text, along with other readings and some films,…

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Publications

Some selected publications

…in addition to Wynter’s Queer Revolution...

Eight Bullets: One Woman’s Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence. (1995). with Claudia Brenner. Firebrand Books. Lamda Book Award Finalist, biography category.

Humanities for the Interregnum: Hey There, ‘Communitarian Revolutionary Subject’ Texting in My Class. (2025). Community Organizing Journal, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.71057/naaky155

Making a RUCCAS or How is an Urban Community Change Axis like a Writing Desk? with Katie Solic.(2018). Radical Teacher (111). http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/article/view/519

Who’s Schooling Who?: Counter-Schooling toward Feasible Utopias with H. Bernard Hall(2016). in Handbook of Research on Community Engagement in 21st Century Education, Frederick Brockmeier and Cate Crosby, Eds. IGI-Global.

What is Basic Writing? (2013). Invited chapter in A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators, Rita Malenczyk, Ed. Parlor Press: Anderson, SC.

The Idea of a Literacy Dula.  (2012). Invited chapter in Unsustainable: Re-imagining Community Literacy, Public Writing, Service-Learning, and the University.Jess Restaino and Laurie Cella, Eds.  “Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism” series published by Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield.

A Perduring Phenomenon.  (2011) Invited review essay.  JAC (Journal of Advanced Composition) (31.1&2). 349-361.

The Art of Queering Voices: A Fugue (2007).  Journal of Basic Writing (26. 1). 49-64. 

Between Civility and Conflict:  Toward a Community Engaged Procedural Rhetoric.  (Spring 2006).  reflections:  Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy, 5, 1 & 2.  49-66. 

Ventriloquism 001: How to throw your voice in the academy.  (Fall, 2003). Journal of Basic Writing, 22 (2), 4-26.  First author, co-authored with Katherine Lynn. 

Hybrid idioms in the writing community: An interview with Ira Shor. (Fall, 2001). Reflections on Community-Based Writing Instruction, 2 (1), 8-14.

Playing the game: Proficient working class writers’ ‘second voices.’ (May, 2001). Research in the Teaching of English, 35 (4), 493-524.