“Embrace the Complexity”
I started this semester with a small idea:
What if in SPEAKING the unspoken
We could make the invisible, Envisioned?
WHAT IF WE BROKE
because
I Couldn’t Hear— invisible disabilities WITHOUT seeing— a Black male ABA therapist
Back on pavement, hands in sky pleading for Badged Gunmen to not harm his
27 year old Eloping patient For holding a toy truck
—could not See —without hearing
Elijah Mcclain’s last words and so could not leave learning objectives unracialized , as Dr. West would say, uncomplicated by the messy realities of complexity.
And I couldn’t think about
disability and race and NOT hear Dr. Crenshaw problematizing the absence in a
became 3 individual and 4 intersecting ones and 30 sources became over 100 prevalence & peer victimization & prevention became my native tongue sleep eluded and sunrises and sunsets circled, unnoticed
I GOT SWEPT UP
OF LEARNER EXPERIENCE DESIGN BEGAN TO SLOW BROADENING TOWARD THE HORIZON OF TOMORROWS AND I CRAWLED TO THE SHORE SPITTING SILT AND CITATIONS AND TOOK A BREATH AND ANOTHER AND REMEMBERED THIS HAS NO END BUT FLOWS INTO A SEA OF COMPLEXITY
Created in 2025.
