Issue 1.2: Writing Centers as Brave/r Spaces

Fall 2017

Special Issue Introduction, Rebecca Hallman Martini and Travis Webster

Part 1: Critiquing Safe/Brave WC Spaces

Writing Center as Homeplace (A Site for Radical Resistance), Kaiden McNamee and Michelle Miley

Neither Brave nor Safe: Interventions in Empathy for Tutor Training, Lana Oweidat, and Lydia McDermott

Brave/r Spaces Versus Safer Spaces for LGBTQ+ in the Writing Center: Theory and Practice at University of Kansas, Jacob Herrmann

Narratives of Student Writer and Writing Center Partnering: Reconstructing Spaces of Academic Literacy, Beatrice Mendez Newman and Rachel R. Gonzalez

Part 2: Intersectional Identities in Brave/r Spaces

Braving the Waters of Class: Performance, Intersectionality, and Policing of Working Class Identity in Everyday Writing Centers, Harry Denny and Beth Towle

Race, Retention, Language, and Literacy: The Hidden Curriculum of the Writing Center, Wonderful Faison and Anna Treviño

Uncomfortably Queer: Everyday Moments in the Writing Center, Elise Dixon

Braving Disability in the Writing Center: A review, Ezekiel Choffel

Part 3: Creating Brave WC Collaborations

A Union of Voices: Building a Multilingual-Positive Community through a Multilingual Writing Mentors Program, Mary Gallager, Katherine Morris, Adam Binkley, Baneza Rivera

Creating Brave Spaces in South Texas, Nadya Pittendrigh and Eric Camarillo

Brave(r) Conversations and Course-Embedded Consulting, or Once More unto the Breach, Christal Seahorn and Madeline Jones

Speaking Truth to Power: Write Out Loud Events as Brave/r Spaces, Caitie Leibman

Part 4: Preparing Tutors/Directors for Brave Spaces

Critical Empathy and Collaborative Fact-Engagement in the Trump Age: A Writing Center Approach, Shannon McKeehan

What Can You Possibly Know About My Experience?”: Toward a Practice of Self-Reflection and Multicultural Competence, Robert Mundy and Rachel Sugerman

Safe Spaces and Brave Pedagogy in Tutor Training Guides, Emily Standridge

Social Justice in the Writing Center, Bridget Draxler

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