My philosophy of vocation, as teacher/learner, scholar/researcher,
published author, and performer involves a “Poetics
of Power Pedagogy:
Radical, Revolutionary, Relevant Relationships,”
based on a Womanist, liberationist, constructive framework. Womanist
thought serves to name, unmask, engage, and transform oppressions
due to class, gender, race, sexual orientation, age, and ability,
towards justice: viewing humanity as sacred. As
teacher/learner/scholar/performer, I facilitate, inspire, and
listen, valuing poetic voices to experience new ways of seeing,
hearing, and learning, so one can exercise care, curiosity, and
creativity when engaging texts, involving the total
self; creating health, noting the distinction between a pathology
and a practice of creativity that brings life, invites questions,
champions human rights, and confronts inequality everywhere.
