I heard an interview on NPR with an educator in rural Kenya, I think. It was a breakdown-freakout-deadline-due-procrastinate-anyway-and-end-up-doing-nothing day. I regret not paying closer attention, but I will never forget what she said when the NPR reporter asked her how she did all she did with what little she had to do it with. "Every action I take, every decision I make, must serve the mission." She was this bad-ass traveling educator who went from community to community, empowering voices and spreading access.

Trace Taylor

"Life is a continuity. All things are related. All beings are interdependent. They cannot exist without each other. They do not exist without each other" (Paul Williams, Das Energi, 23).

Category: Denial of Access

Geography of Self

Geography of Self ©by Trace Taylor (2015) I came from dirty mixed blood. I’ve been hungry my whole life. All I ever knew was hard. Then I met Cara… I waited at noon for the lunch bell. She’d come from across the field where I waited by the wild honeysuckle that hung from a cypress… Read More

Posted onDecember 28, 2018September 30, 2019Categoriesaccess, Autobiographical, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Violations, Denial of Access, education, equality, Gender Discrimination, Hate Crimes, human rights, Human Rights Violations, Identity, inequality, Misogyny, Poverty, Racism, social justice, storiesLeave a comment

Theory and Practice of an Access Pedagogy

© Trace Taylor (2018) In order to shift power from Oppressors to the Oppressed, a pedagogy “must question the status quo in the name of social justice” (Freire 1970). Such a pedagogy would need to be a situated pedagogy open to (the) diversity that provides “…a rich lexicon of practice and dialogue” (Freire 1970), adaptable… Read More

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