Dr. Craig Wynne, the newest professor in the English Program at UDC, will be the next guest on my podcast show At the Edge:  Think Culture.  We will talk about Dr. Wynne’s latest book “How to be a Happy Bachelor” (2020), where he discusses how to think critically about society’s perceptions of marriage, how to overcome your stigma and fear of being alone, and even how to respond to society’s judgments.

https://petermcgraw.org/the-happy-bachelor/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happy-singlehood/202009/changing-the-language-singlehood

Dr. Lawrence T. Potter, Jr., was appointed UDC’s Chief Academic Officer/Provost in February 2019. With

more than two decades in higher education, Dr. Potter has moved through the professorial ranks as an

assistant, associate, and full tenured professor. On the higher education leadership front, he has served

as a department chair, associate dean of the faculty, two-time chief diversity officer (CDO),

Director/Principal Investigator of a McNair Scholars Program, and Dean of Arts and Sciences for eight

years, at two Minority-Serving Institutions.

The importance of information literacy and the role of libraries in diversity and social justice in higher education.

 

Meghan Kowalski is the Outreach and Reference Librarian at the University of the District of Columbia. Previously, she worked in both public and technical services at the Catholic University of America’s John K. Mullen of Denver Memorial Library. She is interested in engaging communities through online and offline outreach initiatives. One of her other current focuses is to increase library professional skill development by breaking down traditional silos, learning from other industries, and encouraging personal career management. You can learn more about her experiences and see some of her work on her website meghankowalski.com.

Words like equity and humanities, as well as phrases like "pathways for a better life"  are skeletons of concepts we will unpack and discuss as part of a larger conversation about changes coming to the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) that will help faculty, students and administrative leaders bring fairness and success to every community and collective in the DC metropolitan area.  This will be a roundtable discussion with UDC's President Ronald Mason, Jr.,   Dr.  Aparajita De, Associate Professor in the English Program, Chenequa Holland, student and blogger, and your host, Dr. Cherie Ann Turpin, Associate Professor.  Join us as we discuss challenges and visions for a regenerated and renewed UDC.   #equalfundingudc

Learn what I mean by "quantum flow" in the poet's voice--this episode will have you thinking about the power of language.  Ronald Mason the spoken word artist who came to Washington DC as an educator from New Orleans returns for part three to talk about poetry, spoken word, and making culture. We will chat about the creative process and social progress in poetry. Listen in as we both share our writing, process, and ideas in challenging but fascinating times. 

Beginning audio "State of Mind" by Audiobinger.  State of Mind by Audiobinger is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.audiobinger.net/ or contact artist via email.

Bring Me Down, Intrepid, 4 the Culture,  Shine by K.I.R.K. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.  For more permissions: contact artist via http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jay_Kirk/

April Massey, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University

of the District of Columbia, has earned degrees from The Ohio State University, the

University of Cincinnati, and Howard University. A speech-language pathologist by

profession, she has nearly 20 years of administrative experience and has served in the

capacity of dean for five years.

Dr. Massey uses her disciplinary training to consider the liberal arts and

careerist needs of students and the research, teaching, and leadership interests of

faculty. With newly launched initiatives in signature work, women’s leadership,

faculty development, STEM pipeline, faculty learning hubs, and scholarship of

practice, her work emphasizes learning by doing and lived experience as content and

context for teaching and learning.

Her recent projects include leading the University’s General Education reform

effort in 2009, partnering with the American Association of University Women through

a Campus Action Project grant in 2016 to build a leadership development opportunity

for women students at UDC, shepherding a faculty study team in signature work in the

summer of 2017 under the umbrella of the Association of American Colleges and

Universities, and launching Dialogues in Leadership — an on campus faculty leadership

development program in the fall of 2017.

Ronald Mason the spoken word artist who came to Washington DC as an educator from New Orleans returns for part two to talk about poetry, spoken word, and making culture.  Poet Carl Moore who hails from Philadelphia will briefly join us to share his work as well.  Tonight we will each share our works, methods, and stories about what it means to be creative writers in a highly politicized time period while holding true to our visions as artists.  Tonight we will discuss soulful visions and being true to the speaking self!

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Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.audiobinger.net/ or contact artist via email.

Bring Me Down, Intrepid, 4 the Culture,  Shine by K.I.R.K. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.  For more permissions: contact artist via http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jay_Kirk/

Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C. began forming cooperative organizations to collectively purchase and manage their apartment buildings. These tenants were creating a commons, taking a resource—housing—that had been used to extract profit from them, and reshaping it as a resource that was collectively owned and governed by them. In Carving Out the Commons, Amanda Huron theorizes the practice of urban commoning through a close investigation of the city’s limited-equity housing cooperatives. Drawing on feminist and anticapitalist perspectives, Huron asks whether a commons can work in a city where land and other resources are scarce, and how strangers who may not share a past or future come together to create and maintain commonly-held spaces in the midst of capitalism. Arguing against the romanticization of the commons, she instead positions the urban commons as a pragmatic practice. Through the practice of commoning, she contends, we can learn to build communities to challenge capitalism’s totalizing claims over life.

Go get her book on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Carving-Out-Commons-Organizing-Cooperatives-ebook/dp/B07B46FS9H/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1544020183&sr=1-1&keywords=amanda+huron

Author Bio

Amanda Huron is an associate professor of interdisciplinary social sciences at the University of the District of Columbia, in Washington, D.C. She is an urban geographer with a particular interest in housing, gentrification, the decommodification of land, and the history of Washington, D.C. Amanda serves on the board of Empower D.C., a citywide community organizing group that works to empower low- and moderate-income District residents, with a particular focus on anti-displacement work. She is a native of Washington, D.C.'s Ward One.

President Ronald Mason, who originally hails from New Orleans, Louisiana, came to Washington DC to be the current president of my university, University of the District of Columbia in 2015. Besides his decades of experience as an educational leader, he also came to D.C. with a gift for spoken word, a gift that puts him in that space between poetic form, song, and rap.  As I am also a poet and short story writer, as well as a literature professor, it occurred to me we have not had a chance to hear more about Mason's story and work as a spoken word artist and poet. Tonight's show will walk us through that journey as At the Edge returns after five years with a new set of podcasts called Thinking Culture. Join us and call in for a special conversation about language,

At the Edge presents Part Two of my discussion with Scottie Lowe, also known as AfroerotiK, who will be discussing her new erotic videos and new collection of erotic short stories, as well as continuing our discussion on Black women, the erotic, spiritual communion, and self-empowerment.

Erotic provocateur, humanist, relentless champion for the oppressed, and facilitator for social change, Scottie Lowe is the brain child, creative genius and the blood, sweat, and tears behind AfroerotiK, the website and the company to provide people of African descent a place to escape the narrow-mined, stereotypical, limiting and oft-times degrading beliefs that abound about our sexuality.  While being the first to admit that there are issues surrounding collective Black sexuality, Scottie is putting everything on the table to discuss, debate, and dismantle stereotypes in a healthy exchange of ideas.  She hopes to provide a more holistic, informed, and enlightened discussion of Black sexuality so that people of color have alternatives to the one-dimensional caricatures society and the media force-feed us down our throats and she dreams of helping couples become more open, honest, and adventurous in their relationships.  

 

For more information about Scottie Lowe and AfroerotiK, do check out her website http://afroerotik.com/

She is on Twitter https://twitter.com/afroerotik & on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/scottie.lowe.afro