Fall 2017
Special Issue Introduction, Rebecca Hallman Martini and Travis Webster
Part 1: Critiquing Safe/Brave WC Spaces
Writing Center as Homeplace (A Site for Radical Resistance), Kaiden McNamee and Michelle Miley
Neither Brave nor Safe: Interventions in Empathy for Tutor Training, Lana Oweidat, and Lydia McDermott
Brave/r Spaces Versus Safer Spaces for LGBTQ+ in the Writing Center: Theory and Practice at University of Kansas, Jacob Herrmann
Narratives of Student Writer and Writing Center Partnering: Reconstructing Spaces of Academic Literacy, Beatrice Mendez Newman and Rachel R. Gonzalez
Part 2: Intersectional Identities in Brave/r Spaces
Braving the Waters of Class: Performance, Intersectionality, and Policing of Working Class Identity in Everyday Writing Centers, Harry Denny and Beth Towle
Race, Retention, Language, and Literacy: The Hidden Curriculum of the Writing Center, Wonderful Faison and Anna Treviño
Uncomfortably Queer: Everyday Moments in the Writing Center, Elise Dixon
Braving Disability in the Writing Center: A review, Ezekiel Choffel
Part 3: Creating Brave WC Collaborations
A Union of Voices: Building a Multilingual-Positive Community through a Multilingual Writing Mentors Program, Mary Gallager, Katherine Morris, Adam Binkley, Baneza Rivera
Creating Brave Spaces in South Texas, Nadya Pittendrigh and Eric Camarillo
Brave(r) Conversations and Course-Embedded Consulting, or Once More unto the Breach, Christal Seahorn and Madeline Jones
Speaking Truth to Power: Write Out Loud Events as Brave/r Spaces, Caitie Leibman
Part 4: Preparing Tutors/Directors for Brave Spaces
Critical Empathy and Collaborative Fact-Engagement in the Trump Age: A Writing Center Approach, Shannon McKeehan
What Can You Possibly Know About My Experience?”: Toward a Practice of Self-Reflection and Multicultural Competence, Robert Mundy and Rachel Sugerman
Safe Spaces and Brave Pedagogy in Tutor Training Guides, Emily Standridge
Social Justice in the Writing Center, Bridget Draxler