Altar to the Women of Rhetoric: Día de Muertos Altars as a Material Rhetorical Practice for Shifting the History of Rhetoric
In Fall of 2017, a group of student’s in Frontera Retorica—the graduate student chapter of RSA at the University…
Browsing: Blog Carnival 12
Wrap Up for “Material and Digital Rhetorics: Openings for Feminist Action”
It’s time for our “Material and Digital Rhetorics: Openings for Feminist Action” blog carnival to come to a…
SlutWalk on Digital Media: A New Materialist Reworking of Women’s Identity
Every year, SlutWalk protesters gather together in various cities around the globe to rail against the slutshaming of…
Let’s Hear It for the Girls!
I want girls to be empowered and to stand up for what they believe in … to be…
Entangled Frames: New Materialist Feminism and Queer Archives
Like many scholars in our field, I’ve become fascinated by the affordances and challenges of new materialist thought…
Planners as Feminist Technology
On the recording, there’s a heavy thunk, then the sound of objects scattering. I had just asked my…
Creating Decolonial Spaces of Puerto Rican Activism on Facebook
The hours, days, weeks, and months following hurricane María have been marked by a deep anxious sorrow for…
Adopting Critical Ethical Practices in Research on Gender and Embodiment
My dissertation research uses queer rhetoric as a lens for analyzing and studying moments of queering gender norms…
Openness, Theories of Writing, and Coding Robots
At the Maker Faire in Fall 2016 my son and I played with various toys designed to encourage…
The Body Image: Selfies, SkinneePix, and Our Malleable Digital Bodies
What are we to make of the “self” captured in a “selfie”? If one is both author and…
Call for Blog Carnival Contributions—Material and Digital Rhetorics: Openings for Feminist Action
Within Composition and Rhetoric, feminist rhetoricians have investigated the intersection of technology and pursuits of social equality. Their…