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As I am on a committee for diversity and inclusion, I love how we are adapting these guidelines. These are things I need to pushpin up to my everyday being:

Guidelines for ADIC Discussions, adapted from Sensoy and DiAngelo (2014)

Strive for intellectual and cultural humility. Be willing to grapple with challenging ideas.
Differentiate between opinion and informed knowledge, which comes from sustained
experience, study, and practice.

Hold your opinions lightly and with humility.
Recognize that anecdotes overlap with lived experience and understand the certain value,
but also the limitations, that these possess in discussions of social justice. Don’t

allow personal anecdotal evidence to invalidate broader group-level patterns.

Notice your own defensive reactions and attempt to use these reactions as entry points for
gaining deeper self-knowledge, rather than as a rationale for closing off.
Recognize how your own social positionality (e.g., race, class, gender, sexuality, ability) informs
your priorities, perspectives, and reactions to committee discussions.
Differentiate between safety and comfort. Recognize that discomfort as necessary for
social justice growth.
Listen and seek to understand before responding with defensiveness. Consider that
feelings may be opportunities for discussion and growth.
Identify where your learning edge is and push it. For example, whenever you think,
“I already know this,” ask yourself, “How can I take this deeper?” Or, “How am I
applying in practice what I already know?”
Accept that emotion and reason can co-exist. Recognize that silencing emotion in
conversations about equity and social justice protects privilege and moves away
from having meaningful, constructive discussion.

keep writing The War in poems

try to do a Strike Out every night M thru F so there is a submission every week

At home poems with ADHD, neurodiverrgence

Pastoral AF, when I can / ecopoetics

Two Mothers--need to get a book together, when I can

FINISHED:

At the Movies as a chapbook

To tell you a little about the project: With its roots in documentary poetics, At the Movies with the Predator is the merging of movie trailers with the Trump Era to find a way to face writing through trauma. Dialogues and plots are appropriated as what is said in a trailer resounds from a political figure. As a President Predator takes office, The Predator is released in theatres as the speaker discovers his friend is a predator, and Hollywood has its own #MeToo moment, this is a collection where the public and private are blurred, where the individual story is part of the collective story met through the movie camera lens.

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Dennis Etzel Jr.

Friday, March 12, 2021

The War in American Privilege Packet

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Environmental poetry

Almost

Guidelines for Being in Community

Friday, March 5, 2021

What I Learned from This Trip

The War in Seven Letters Packet

Thursday, March 4, 2021

#AWP21 Bookfair Exhibitors

#AWP21 Bookfair Exhibitors

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