Teaching With Tenderness

historical memory as an embodied concept.

real experience of talking as equals across divides they were taught to uphold.

tenderness makes room for intimacy and vulnerability alongside deep study of guiding texts.

cooperation and collaboration, rather than on a star system and competition.

to take on such a project requires “taking a stand” against multiple interests that are opposed to the nurturing of “contentment, detachment, tolerance,

This meant having working relationships with students in activist organizations—the

I went out of my way to be sure that students of color saw me as an ally, in a way that was sometimes patronizing and condescending.

What we store in our bodies is often what can’t yet be assimilated, what is too hard to digest.

As readers we take what we can and leave the rest.