... freedom college life Convocation 2011 ...

... At the 2011 Duke University Convocation, Richard Brodhead speaks to the incoming class about the responsibility that comes with the freedoms that college presents to young people. freedom college life Convocation 2011 ...

... There are an infinite number of paths one might take to illuminate the relationship between trans life and the university. In situating my inquiry within the Five Colleges, I aim to honor the place where my inquiry originated, as well as the communities with whom I worked. Luckily, the Five...

... Tristan begins college at Wesleyan University and has many sexual experiences. Wesleyan University LGBTQ sexuality sex life queer history ...

... a contextualizing apparatus for the flows of trans life at the Five Colleges over the last several decades. trans history Five Colleges Western Massachusetts ...

... as they venture out into the world. In her 2011 commencement address at Trinity Washington University, she recalls key experiences with inspiring women teachers from her childhood, who taught her vital lessons that she has relied on throughout her life. She also praises the crucial work of women's colleges...

.... Thus, transition to life beyond secondary schooling is often a crisis for those with disabilities. Fieldwork with innovative transition experiments offered glimpses into what might happen if disabled students were recognized as transitioning to somewhere. A group of LD college students, founders of Eye...

... In this chapter, I turn to the Five College archive of trans life as well as more canonical theories of hope to explore attunements that best equip us to notice trans hope in a poetic register. First, I cull three attunements from theorists of hope: attunements to trash, to the concrete...

... Here Rosemarie discusses Altgeld Gardens, the housing project her family moved to from Woodlawn, and what her life was like there. It was there that Rosemarie, with the encouragement of a teacher, Miss Radcliff, first began to think about going to college. In Altgeld, Rosemarie also learns...

...Part IV In this chapter, I turn to the Five College archive of trans life as well as more canonical theories of hope to explore attunements that best equip us to notice trans hope in a poetic register. First, I cull three attunements from theorists of hope: attunements to trash...

... I want to tell stories of fatigue from trans life at the Five Colleges. These are hard stories, draining stories. Such fatigue often leads to withdrawal, leaving, or shutting down; sometimes it leads to suicide. There is no saving grace to these stories; no silver lining. But there is an equally...

... life changes or sold on the open market as commodities. Pets are required to follow human rules, to fit within our way of life, even adopt our language and social norms. But as multispecies families break down—with major life events like a divorce, a lost job, or a child headed away to college—animals...

... In what follows, I search within political theories of resistance and the Five College archive of trans life for attunements that, far from leaving us waylaid by institutional policies, important personages, and incisive protests, pull the poetics of resistance into the frame. First, I cull...

... Although unsung by philosophy and trans studies alike, despite their attentions to the seams of relation, glue is a powerful analytic for thinking both intimacy and rupture. The Five College archive of trans life returns to the spot over and over again: this dynamic of adhesions broken...

... The fundamental question of trans worlding in the Five College archive of trans life is this: Who gets taken to constitute trans worlds, and whose webs of relation, kinship, and belonging define the stories we tell and the futures we turn toward? Here, I take up three stories in those archives...

... studies scholars to interrogate both the neoliberal institutional frameworks and the necropolitical logics of the modern-day public university. With Asians as vital players in the death-making machinery of the globalizing system, the notion of college as a place to receive “a better life” and the model...

...Preface Trans life in the university is always already unhomed, always already misfiled. And yet, the worlds we make with one another take up residence in its cracks. All of these unofficial lines of communication, the offbeat channels of collaboration, and the unexpected friendships...

... journey as an educator began at elite institutions, SEEK introduced her to “activist teaching methods” that she would continue developing throughout her life at institutions such as Douglass College, San Jose State University, and Stanford University. This chapter also illustrates how Rich’s development...

... In this chapter, I cull a set of attunements for tracking trans history in the archives, especially a history of trans poetics. Turning to stories of trans life at the Five Colleges as well as traditional archive theory, I think the comportments that pull trans into the frame, as much...

... In this chapter, I interweave theorizations and histories of dust, especially dust in the archives, and echoes of transhumanism and tranimacies, with actual trans stories of fracture and agglomeration in the Five College archive of trans life. Working with some of the most stochastic records...