Volume 26, Issue 1: Fall 2023

About this Issue

Editor: Rebecca Dingo and Clancy Ratliff
Associate Editor: Jennifer Nish
Editorial Assistant: Stacie Klinowski and Rachel Smith
Web Coordinator: Hannah Taylor
Cover Art: a brown park bench with the words “Smash Patriarchy” in white paint. In the background is a blue sky, green trees, and a low brick wall. In the top left corner, the words “Peitho Volume 26.1 Fall 2023” in all caps in a dark orange font.

Introduction

Editors’ Introduction
Rebecca Dingo and Clancy Ratliff
Tags: coalition building, memory, transnational feminism, violence, war

Articles

The Quest for Meaningful Work: Enacting New True Woman Values via Epideictic Rhetoric
Kristy Crawley
Tags: American, domesticated workspaces, epideictic rhetoric, Julia Wolfe, labor, Martha Louise Rayne, Mary Ellen Pleasant, Nancy Myers, New True Woman, nineteenth-century, separate spheres, What Can a Woman Do or Her Position in the Business and Literary World

Rereading Evelyn Cameron’s Photography and the “Exceptional Woman” Myth
Lisa Mastrangelo
Tags: critical imagination, Medio-Materialist Historiography, social circulation, the American West, women in photography

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Rhetorical Shifts in What Happened: Pluralist Feminist Credibility Post-2016
Zoe McDonald
Tags: coalition, ethos, feminism, Hillary Rodham Clinton, rhetoric

Cluster Conversation: Addressing The Barriers Between Us and that Future edited by Lisa E. Wright, Natasha Tinsley, Anna Sicari, and Hillary Coenen

Introduction: Addressing The Barriers Between Us and that Future: (Feminist) Activist Coalition Building in Writing Studies
Lisa E. Wright, Natasha Tinsley, Anna Sicari, and Hillary Coenen

Organizational and Institutional Critique

Coalition Building Between Subjectivity and Instrumentality: Reflecting on My Experiences in a Militant, Trotskyist Women’s Rights Group in the 1990s
Don Unger
Tags: activism, coalition, temporary alliance, Trotskyism

Black/Queer/Intersectional/Abolitionist/Feminist: Essay-ish on the “Deep Sightings” of Black Feminisms during Shock-and-Awe Campaigns of White Supremacy (In Memory of Linda Brodkey)
Carmen Kynard
Tags: Black feminist thought, deep sight, memoir, pedagogy, white settler culture

Feminist Resistance, Resilience, and Concession: Historical Moments of Activism by NCTE and CCCC Feminist Groups (or, “Whatever You, Betty, and Nancy Think Ought to Be Done”)
Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides
Tags: child care, Committee, kairotic moment, sexist language, stealth advocacy

Your Good Deed Could Save the World: Fighting Austerity is a Feminist Must
Liz Rohan
Tags: austerity, campus activism, feminist institutional citizenship, strategic contemplation

Archival Research as Institutional Critique
Walker P. Smith
Tags: archival research, evangelical marriage, institutional critique, rhetorics of gender and sexuality

Mentorship and Interpersonal Advocacy

“BLACKstudies”: a Contemplatively Poetic Response to Alexis Pauline Gumbs(& Audre Lorde)
Kendra N. Bryant Aya
Tags: activism, family, memoir, poetry, school, story, students

The Impact of CRT Bans on Southern Public Universities: An Analysis of the Response of PWIs and HBCUs to Anti-CRT Legislation and a Way Forward
Wonderful Faison
Tags: anti-woke agenda, critical race theory, defy, DEI, disavow, disobey, dissent, HBCU

Coalition Building against Anti-Asian Racism: Interweaving Stories of Transnational Asian/American Feminist Survivance
Eunjeong Lee, Soyeon Lee, and Minjung Kang
Tags: affective connectivity, anti-Asian violence, stories, survivance, transnational

Because We Already Are Legitimate: Feminist Coalition Building among Graduate and Undergraduate Students to Counter Patriarchal, White, Heteronormative ‘Expertise’
Jennifer Burke Reifman, Mik P. Penarroyo, and Loren Torres
Tags: conditional acceptance, diversity, expertise, iterative member checking, mentorship

“Institutions Don’t Define Us, Our Relationships Do”: Navigating Burnout, Relationship Building, and Collaboration as Graduate Students
Natalie Shellenberger and Nataly Dickson
Tags: burnout, collaboration, feminist co-mentoring, graduate school, relationships

We Don’t Need More “Safe” Spaces; We Need Transformative Justice
Amanda Hawks and Bethany Meadows
Tags: Spiritual Bypassing, storying, structural racism, transformative justice, writing centers

Subversive Classroom Practices

Addressing the Barriers between Us and that Future via Deep Rhetoricity
Romeo García, Gesa E Kirsch, Valeria Guevara Fernandez, and Nicole Salazar
Tags: careful reckonings, classroom, deep rhetoricity, stories

Subverting from the Inside: Inclusive Assessment Practices in First-Year Writing
Callie F. Kostelich and Michelle Cowan
Tags: assessment, DEI, first-year writing, grading contracts, pedagogy, writing program administration

Pedagogies of Social Justice in Miami: Reflections on Healing Wounds of Discrimination and Inequity while Teaching at a State-Funded University
Shewonda Leger & Chantalle F. Verna
Tags: decolonizing pedagogies, heritage stories, horizontal classroom design, silencing, ungrading, zines

Rhetorical Resilience and Righteous Discontent in Eurasia: Female Students Leading the Way
Elitza Kotzeva, Sona Gevorgyan, Nairy Bzdigian, Lilit Khachatryan
Tags: family roles, feminist resilience, health care, marriage, rhetorical autoethnography, women’s rights

“Opening A Door”: Resisting Institutional Closeting in the Writing Classroom
Galen Bunting
Tags: affirmation, archival literacy, community, digital archives, feminist killjoys, pedagogy, queer complaint

Cluster Conversation: Reclaiming the Work of Wendy Bishop as Rhetorical Feminist Mentoring edited by Mary Ann Cain and Melissa A. Goldthwaite

Reclaiming the Work of Wendy Bishop as Rhetorical Feminist Mentoring: A Cluster Conversation
Mary Ann Cain and Melissa A. Goldthwaite
Tags: collaboration, legacy, Mentoring, relationships, rhetorical feminism, teaching writing

Correspondences
Melissa A. Goldthwaite
Tags: connection, correspondence, email, Letter Writing, Mentoring, relationships

Inspiring Collegiality: A Roundtable on Intergenerational Mentoring
Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Sarah Bramblett, Don Gammill Jr., Tiffany Gray, Cantice Greene, Letizia Guglielmo, Mary Lamb, Renee Love, Alice Johnston Myatt, Kristen Ruccio, Matthew Sansbury, Lara Smith-Sitton, and Nathan Wagner
Tags: autoethnography, composition, creative writing, Mentoring, personal writing, teaching

Creative Composing: A Lesson Plan for Students, Teachers, and Teacher-Writers
Meg Scott-Copses
Tags: creative writing, feminist pedagogy, personal experience, reflection, student writing, teaching

Radically Revising the Writing Classroom: Wendy Bishop as Feminist Mentor
Amy Hodges Hamilton and Micaela Cuellar
Tags: feminist mentoring, pedagogy, radical revision, writing

Writing With and After Wendy
Doug Hesse
Tags: administration, composition studies, creative nonfiction, poetry, writing process

Dialoguing with Wendy
Mary Ann Cain
Tags: academia, connection, crots, dialogue, dogs, writer

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