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Gabby’s documentary focuses on dreadlocks and how others conceptualize the somewhat competing values associated with dreadlocks. I think one reason I react enthusiastically to her work has to do with her ability to toggle between the analytic and experiential. She’s invested in both the celebration of her roots even as she actively seeks to understand how others view the ethnic, geographic, and musical values associated with dreadlocks. It’s difficult not to be caught up in that celebration. Why shouldn’t we be seduced by student writing?

Read the rest at “Loc Nation.”

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Jessee’s project documents Steampunk and the role specific instances of that sub-genre play in her development as a writer and person. She describes overcoming life’s challenges by gaining access to online Steampunk communities and how that sense of acceptance is transformative. 

You can see her work at Static Perception.

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Acknowledgements

Brown, Arrik. “A Story about Three College Students.” Documentary Project. Tumblr. Oct. 2014. Web. 16 Mar. 2015.

Lee, Jessee. “Static Perception.” Documentary Project. Tumblr. Oct. 2014. Web. 16 Mar. 2015.

Spigelman, Candace. Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse. Carbondale: SIUP, 2004. Print. 

Tobin, Lad. "Reading Students, Reading Ourselves: Revising the Teacher's Role in the Writing Class." College English 53.3 (1991): 333-48. JSTOR. Web. 6 Mar. 2015.

Woodberry, Gabrielle. “Loc Nation.” Documentary Project. Tumblr. Oct. 2014. Web. 16 Mar. 2015.

Thanks, too, to my wonderful spouse, Athena Kinney, who supports me in too many ways to cite; 

Colleagues and friends, Susan Delagrange and Carolyn Skinner, who encourage and support teacherly scholarship and scholarly teaching; 

Past and hopefully future collaborators who share my interests in the personal and digital media, Sally Chandler and Debbie Williams;

Writing center consultant and Tumblr expert, Ashley Van Hesteren; 

And my tech guru without whom student conversations would not have been recorded, saved, and edited and without whom I would not be able to do the fun part of my job, David Au. 

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What's My Role?

"We need to develop a theory of reading student texts which takes into account our reading of the students themselves, of our own unconscious motivations and associations, and, finally, of the interactive and dialectical nature of the teacher-student relationship" (Tobin 335).