Author: profjalexander

I think the best way I can show what digital rhetoric means to me is by showing how I have attempted to enact it. Shortly after news broke about the suicide of Tyler Clementi, a young Rutgers student whose sexual liaison with another male student was video broadcast by his roommate, I wanted to compose a piece that would commemorate this young man while also drawing attention to the ongoing psychic trauma inflicted on young queer people growing up in a homophobic society. And yes, our society is homophobic, just as it’s also racist, sexist, ableist, and classist. If you…