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- Title
Where's Queerdo? Disabling Perceptions!
- Authors
Cosenza, Julie
- Abstract
It was the third day of the faculty union strike on the SIU Carbondale campus in fall, 2011. Our strike team was stationed at the corner of Mill and Poplar. The administration was holding out on a contract, making life on campus extremely tense. It was not "business as usual," to use our chancellor's exact phrase. At one moment in the long day of yelling and honking, I found myself on a corner with Ron Pelias, making fun of him for not holding a sign. He argued his presence on the corner and his friendly wave was an effective form of protest. He preferred to lean his sign against a nearby tree. Longing for an academic conversation, being out of the classroom for so long, we started to chat about my performance research. Like most of our conversations, I delight in his ability to listen while my motor mouth excitedly spits out a discombobulated, fragmented cluster of ideas. I periodically check in to see if his facial expression shifts, which is usually my cue to stop talking. When he says "mumm," I listen, for Ron's feedback is often in the form of a carefully constructed question. He hummed and hawed then asked me, "Why are you trying to convince people that you deserve a place at the table? You are sitting at the table. Where are you going to go from here?".
- Subjects
SOUTHERN Illinois University at Carbondale; TEACHERS' strikes &; lockouts; PELIAS, Ron
- Publication
Liminalities, 2014, Vol 10, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1557-2935
- Publication type
Article