All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
-Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
-Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
ALL THAT WE TOUCH WE CHANGE
A pedagogical and community project
A portfolio for Dr. Carmen Kynard's fall 2025 seminar "Freedom School: Rhetorics and Histories of Black Education."
This portfolio is titled “Threading Together; Histories of Black Language and Literacies as Directions Elsewhere” because my goal is to pay heed to and learn from the Black radical tradition in education, working collectively to create something elsewhere, beyond colonial logics, though sometimes, incidentally, moving in the same spheres. I took this seminar in my first semester of teaching freshman composition, which Dr. Kynard notes on our course website is structurally positioned as a white supremacist gatekeeping mechanism. . .
Friendship Quilt gifted to Martha Etta Taylor, late 19th century (Anacostia Community Museum African American quilt collection )
Gally (co-author of this page)
A sneak peek of what's to come. . .