By Mario MeloOriginally published November 21, 2022 I’m writing my grad school application’s writing sample on masculinity in Dracula. As a result, I’ve been looking for how male characters perform masculinity in all the media I consume. Usually, that means I end up thinking about Zoro from One Piece. There’s something interesting to me about the way Oda …
By Caroline ConroyOriginally published March 11, 2022 When I first started on my research project, investigating faculty perceptions of code meshing in classrooms, myself and others at the Writing Center kept saying to ourselves something along the lines of “change does not happen in a vacuum; it is important that we involve others at DU, …
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By: Joe PonceOriginally published November 4, 2022 Imagine an undergrad creative writing workshop. Usually, it hasn’t been updated in a while: whitewashed walls, an unused dry erase board with incoherent smears and squiggles. You’ve given a piece of fiction to be critiqued by a group of other would-be writers, led by a professional, someone with …
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By Kristen WallaceOriginally published October 28, 2022 Voice is not a gift. It is a democratic right. It is a human right. -Donaldo Macedo, Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed I am currently obsessed with gifts. In part, this obsession stems from my current thesis work on pedagogy and gift …
A Creative Writing Exercise: What Does a Linguistically Equitable World Look Like? By Jasmine Saucedae Originally published February 25, 2022 photo of host, Jasmine Sauceda, conducting an interview during a recording session of the Writing Center’s inaugural podcast series, “Center Voices.”Imagine a world where communication is not hindered by paradigms of the English language. A group …