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As contingent faculty and an employee of the Commonwealth of Virginia, I don't have the power to strike (or even to refuse necessary tasks, like email). My teaching this semester is also mostly asynchronous. So for my World Religions class I added #ScholarStrike module. 1/?
To back up: I attempted to design the class from the ground up with anti-racist principles in mind. The first two weeks have focused on the forging of "religion" as a category of analysis in the context of colonial domination, w/ assists from Masuzawa, Smith, @KeepingIt_101 2/?
I also, for the first time, adopted principles of UDL, presenting multiple ways for students to complete weekly assignments and discussions. I set deadlines for the sake of lending structure, but explicitly told my students that everything is flexible. #EndCarcerealPedagogy 3/?
