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Suicide And Nepantla: Writing In In-Between Space To Crave Policy Change, Ethan Trinh
Suicide And Nepantla: Writing In In-Between Space To Crave Policy Change, Ethan Trinh
Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications
This autohistoria, or “a personal essay that theorizes,” is a special piece to me.[1] It is spiritual, poetic, political, and dialogic. This essay thus delves deeper into the mourning, the fear, the tears, the pain, the loneliness, the strength of a Vietnamese queer immigrant in a state of Nepantla in order to relate with other queers of color in the dark (i.e., in suicidal process). “Living in Nepantla, the overlapping space between different perceptions and belief systems, you are aware of the changeability of racial, gender, sexual, and other categories rendering the conventional labelling obsolete.”[2] In this space, …
Teacher Education Nepantlera Work: Connecting Cracks-Between-Worlds With Mormon University Students, G. Sue Kasun
Teacher Education Nepantlera Work: Connecting Cracks-Between-Worlds With Mormon University Students, G. Sue Kasun
Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications
Teacher educators work with students of various backgrounds, often distinct from their own. This paper explores how one teacher educator examines her positionality in relation to Mormon students and how, despite not sharing their faith, she is able to work the “cracks-between-worlds” of difference and commonality toward understanding and learning. Through Anzaldúa’s concept of autohistoria-teoria, theorizing through one’s biography, the author explores and theorizes her experiences. She encourages educators to consider how they engage students, learn from other nepantleras (bridge-builders), and create more opportunities toward shared understanding while also complicating and letting go of a dogged sense of teaching students …