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Is this justice?
In April 2000, my dad was shot and killed. I’ve been through a lot of different phases related to this incident and I’ve obviously had a very different life because of it. The police caught the young men who shot … Continue reading
Marching Forward
This post is long overdue, but better late than never. Over the last few months, I accepted a position at George Mason University and graduated with my M. Ed. in Higher Education Administration from North Carolina State University. It’s been … Continue reading
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My moment of hesitation
As a heterosexual, able-bodied, white cis-gendered male, I have a lot of unearned privileges in society that were taught to me through everything I interacted with. Whether it was media, school, etc. One of the only areas in which I … Continue reading
Present v Future
Most of us teach and are taught that it is only the future that really matters. -bell hooks – Teaching Community bell hooks is right. We spend an immeasurable amount of time thinking about the future. In high school, it’s … Continue reading
I’m not Caucasian
“…conventional American racial categories are rooted in colonialism, slavery, and an elaborate ideology developed to justify a system of racial inequality. Given racial categories’ sociohistorical rather than biological roots, the notion that “races” describe human biological variation has been officially … Continue reading
Birthers Continue
President Obama recently released his long form birth certificate, which (unsurprisingly) matched the birth certificate that he released on his website during the 2008 campaign. The pressure had been mounting over the last several weeks with Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice
Tagged Belonging, Male Privilege, politics, Trump, White Privilege
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Acronyms and Accuracy
I’ve got a few pet peeves and this one developed last semester during a Gender Issues class. We were talking about (hyper)masculinity and its affects on students who are gay. We were talking about how that sense of masculinity was … Continue reading
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RA Training
I expect a lot out of RA Training. I want my RAs to be ready to perform at a high level and that means they already know that basics. Getting to that point means that the RAs are engaged in … Continue reading
Readjusting to advising
I’m learning to advise again, but this is an entirely different experience than advising my hall council. I’m coming into an organization in the middle of the year so there is already a knowledge base that the students are operating … Continue reading
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Discourse
Violence is prevalent through the entire english language. We’ve got words and phrases that are embedded in our culture that can prevent us from seeing extreme examples of embedded violence in language as a problem. As Student Affairs Educators, we … Continue reading
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