Unconventional Quilts and the Love of Breaking Rules
It's been too long since I updated my blog. Mostly that is because the academic year has started back up and I have a lot going on with my day job. I am teaching a new class that I absolutely LOVE . It is a theory class, which means it is pretty challenging. My students have been great and they are putting in the work to understand fairly complex ideas. It is also prompting me to think more about my own intellectual and creative inspirations, which are are varied and a little bit unconventional. Some might even say they are 'heterodox' in that they defy orthodox practices, beliefs, and knowledge. While the term 'heterodox' is sometimes used to chastise individuals or demean particular perspectives, I use it as a reminder to think in new ways, using whatever tools are available to come up with new ways of approaching the world. This is evident in the ways I teach, especially through combining different theoretical traditions in new ways and bringing in non-schola