
Teaching With Tenderness

Considering embodiment a
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
History, culture, imperialism, region, and sexuality meant that a monolithic concept of women of color made little sense.
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
creating multiracial communities required finding ways to teach about power and privilege that loosened people up rather than hardened them, that countered defensiveness, that helped people get to a soft place with each other.
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
the displacement of the body into sex effectively silences the potential of the body on other grounds.”
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
classroom as a community of learners (rather than treating faculty as the ultimate and only experts).
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
know it is possible to survive discomfort, to move through it.
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
is a way of living that requires self-study at every juncture—how
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
real experience of talking as equals across divides they were taught to uphold.
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
historical memory as an embodied concept.