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These posts consider matters of teaching and learning, career discernment, and equity in education. As a former professor, I share my experiences in school and my decision to leave academia to pursue public writing and community education.

Exploring Exhaustion and Energy Loss

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies, Higher Education By Beth Godbee May 5, 2017 Leave a Comment

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I’ve been particularly exhausted, as is so often the case at the end of each school year. I often feel that the further I get into spring semester, the more I become tired, grumpy, and on edge. It’s as though my brain becomes over-worked, my body under-utilized, and my balance thrown totally off. This year I’ve also been experiencing exhaustion as more than regular semester stress, and I feel certain it’s due to the routinization of daily assaults on personhood. It’s ... Read more ...

Answering the Call for Artistic Activism: Yes, I’m an Artist!

Filed Under: Everyday Feminism, Higher Education By Beth Godbee April 8, 2017 Leave a Comment

“Do you consider yourself a writer?” I’ve been teaching for almost two decades, and throughout this time, I’ve routinely asked this question on the first and last days of the semester (and often in-between). I’ve found my own strong YES to the question, asserting: “I don’t just study writing. I write. I am a writer.” And I hope that students, colleagues, friends, and family will similarly see themselves as writers, as people who write (who do the embodied act of ... Read more ...

Today Resistance Looks Like …

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies, Everyday Feminism, Higher Education, Racial Justice By Beth Godbee February 7, 2017 Leave a Comment

How do we work to align feelings, thoughts, and actions (heart, head, hands) with the world we’d like to see? How do we go about our everyday lives for the “ought to be,” for justice? I’m thankful for Jardana Peacock (of the Liberatory Leadership Project) for modeling a contemplative writing practice that I’ve been using to think through these questions. At the end of each day, I’ve been filling in the answer to her prompt: “Today resistance looks like …” I ... Read more ...

Re-Reading Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Filed Under: Higher Education, Racial Justice By Beth Godbee January 9, 2017 Leave a Comment

In preparation for a course I’m teaching this spring (“Writing for Social Justice”), I’m lucky to be re-reading Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. In this powerful YA novel, Alexie describes growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and navigating interactions in the rural, white high school. Alexie’s narrative reveals much about systemic inequities, colonization, marginalization, and disenfranchisement. I hope students will relate to ... Read more ...

Heart, Head, and Hands: Explaining the Blog’s Name

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies, Everyday Feminism, Higher Education By Beth Godbee December 12, 2016 Leave a Comment

Photo showing eight hands with varied skin tones: 4 with gloves, 4 without. By sharing three sets of “emergency gloves” among the five of us, we found a way to share in the warmth: each of us with one hand covered, one uncovered. Together, we created some warmth, much laughter, and good memories that remind me still today that we need solutions for solidarity and mutual support. Together, we can create warmth, even in chilly conditions.

For months, I kept a list of keywords and imagined titles for this blog. For months, I ran possible names by friends and family, who responded with “nope,” “eugh,” and “huh?” Then, casually and unsurprisingly, my friend and frequent co-author Rasha Diab said, “Beth, your blog is heart-head-hands. That’s your thing.” I guess this exercise—this linking of feeling with thinking with acting—is “my thing.” Often in classes and workshops, I use the contemplative writing ... Read more ...

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✨Happy Birthday, Angela Davis✨Posted @withregram • @culturestrike Happy 77th birthday to Dr. Angela Y. Davis, one of the most consequential revolutionaries and communists of our time. Davis’ legacy as an abolitionist, Black feminist, philosopher, academic and author has been critical in shaping our conversations around racism, class, and, perhaps most notably, the prison system in the United States.

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I'm grateful that my partner Jonathan and I decide I'm grateful that my partner Jonathan and I decided to leave DC last week. (It was a complicated decision during the pandemic, but we’re grateful for car camping supplies, including a portable toilet and the capacity to plan + pack food for the week.) 

Time near the ocean and in marshlands provided a real respite. Here are a few of my favorite photos -- with deep gratitude again (and always) for the earth.

Photo 3: Here I am teetering (what life feels like these days): holding onto ropes, balancing on tree logs, and crossing a swampy area of marshlands.

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I'm grateful that my partner Jonathan and I decide I'm grateful that my partner Jonathan and I decided to leave DC last week. (It was a complicated decision during the pandemic, but we’re grateful for car camping supplies, including a portable toilet and the capacity to plan + pack food for the week.) 

Time near the ocean and in marshlands provided a real respite. Here are a few of my favorite photos -- with deep gratitude again (and always) for the earth.

Photo 2: Tree trunks branching in multiple directions -- horizontal and vertical -- in a brown and green forest setting.

#Nature #Hiking #Trees #LearningFromNature #Respite #Restore #Refuel #Recommit
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I'm an educator and former college professor who believes our fully embodied selves matter in the world. We can’t just think our way out of the incredible injustices, dehumanization, violence, and wrongdoing that characterize everyday life. We must feel and act, too. [Pronouns: she/her.] Read more ...

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