Re: just me

From: Randy Bomer (rbomer@indiana.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 10:47:40 PST


Mary wrote:

> Many participants have taken a turn tackling the issues of inclusivity and
> xmca. And in so doing, we seem to have reproduced some of the same dynamics
> that prompted a call for reflection in the first instance. There have also
> been passages and voices speaking with frank and authentic clarity about
> difficult issues.

I wonder if the former dynamics might facilitate the latter rich voices.
What I mean is that maybe the fact that some people stake positions and
keeping going:

"no, x"
"no, y"
"no, x"
"no, y"

keeps the conversation on a topic, makes the river into a lake, and allows
the more nuanced positions to hang off the sides of the debate. Maybe,
moreover, x and y aren't really even the positions of the people seeming to
claim them. The group just constructs them that way to find a center and to
hang on intersubjectively to some sense of what's on the table. I know I've
mixed metaphors like crazy here; take your pick.

Off topic, but, Mary, that's some provocative quote you got there in your
signature. I'm working with a graduate seminar on looking at queer theory
and education, and I forwarded it to them.

Randy Bomer
Indiana University



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