Author: Nicole K. Golden

In our call for submissions, we asked educators from across the disciplines to share teaching materials that forward social justice pedagogies. While our understanding of social justice is grounded in the field of Technical and Professional Communication’s ongoing social justice turn toward actionable and coalitional justice, we invited contributors to briefly discuss how their course materials enact socially just pedagogies as they understand them across contexts such as writing studies, composition, writing center studies, rhetoric writ large, and still others. Their unique course syllabi and activities join a chorus of existing materials within both the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC)…

Presenter: Kalpana Shrestha (East Carolina University, PhD Student) Content warning: The presentation discussed in this review focuses on the Global South’s anti-rape movement. Rape is referred to strictly in name only in this piece and is not discussed to any other extent. Each year I’ve gone to CCCCs, I’m there for sessions about Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) communities or by APIDA-identifying scholars. As a Japanese American who studies APIDA communities, I find CCCCs and the Asian/Asian American Caucus to serve an important role in my professional development and sense of belonging in the fields of rhetoric and technical…

The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative’s Syllabus Repository and Teaching and Learning Materials collections are peer-contributed resources dedicated to providing open-source pedagogical artifacts. Beyond digital archives, we view these two repositories as possible mentoring texts and formative models that could inspire instructors in the current moment. In this call, we ask educators from across the disciplines to share syllabi and other course materials which center social justice-oriented pedagogies, including themes such as anti-racism, equity, inclusion, and more. By curating these resources, our aim is to provide alternative pathways for scholars to share pedagogical strategies that actively challenge systemic inequities. As PhD…

Hi there, I’m Nicole! And, I’m super excited to be a DRC Fellow this year. My relationship to technology has always centered around community. Beginning with the huge family PC my sister and I used to play around in the early 2000s Microsoft Paint (rip) to visiting each other’s Animal Crossing islands on our Switches from across the country, the ways in which digital technology can invite or foster community have evolved over time as technological advances have been made. Though I used to strictly view digital technology as something that connected people when they were physically together in a…