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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Although I’ve already added not just
my two cents but maybe a nickel to this important discussion, here’s
another brief comment. Sugie raises important points—and I like the fact
that we’re still discussing my wonderful friend and mentor Sharon
Crowley’s incisive critique. My answer, to Sugie and Sharon and to myself
when I have to look in the mirror (that might reflect injustice) and go to work
in the morning, is that (a) it’s better that we are working in the midst
of injustice, even within unjust institutions, and working to change them; and
(b) the ultimate effect of bringing BW students into these institutions is that
the normalizing force of “academic discourse” can be subverted by
the voices and the lives of those who bring their experience and reality to
academic sites, hybridizing the old academic discourse and changing it, de-norming
it. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>That doesn’t happen always, or
easily, or justly, or the same everywhere. But without BW practitioners and BW
students, it likely doesn’t happen at all. So as long as we are working
to change and subvert institutions—actively, riskily, but not
inconsequentially—my guess (I say “guess” to assure all that
I don’t claim to be sure) is that being here is more likely to make
justice than being gone.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Good, important, complicated discussion.
Yes, I want to be in a session on this; I’m not committed to any other
session yet. It would be great to have Sharon as chair or respondent, but she
is retiring from ASU and we had kind of a end-of-career party with her at CCCC
in New Orleans and she may not want to attend in 2009; I can certainly
ask her—and seeing this thread might kindle her interest… </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks again, Sugie and Shannon and </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Susan</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> and Peter and Marcia and
Hannah and Deborah.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Cheers,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Bill</span></font></p>
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