Considering the freak out about the kids part of this statement, I may need to explicate my draw the obvious implications for same-gender forces intimacy in the classroom.
https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/1402286013540614145
Inviting students into the intimate details of your marital life, sex life, and yes even parenting is also a problem.
Take a real life example of the white parent to a mixed race child who wanted their minority students to manage their racial anxiety.
There are many other manifestations of this but the premise holds that intimacy across unequal power relations negatively impacts the person with less power WHETHER THEY KNOW IT OR NOT. It’s the professors’ obligation to know that .
And, finally, if you do not know the difference between intimate details and humanizing stories or complaining about your life and placing the public part of your life in a part of your pedagogy, that’s a real opportunity area.
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