Join us for the 7th annual RMWCA Summer Book Club as we read Storying Writing Center Labor for Anti-Capitalist Futures by Genie Nicole Giaimo and Daniel Lawson, published by University Press of Colorado. The book is available entirely online through The WAC Clearinghouse at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/storying/.
Read and come join the conversation at the three book club meetings:
Wednesday, June 25, 1-2pm MDT (12PM PDT/3PM EDT)
Wednesday, July 23, 1-2 pm MDT (12PM PDT/3PM EDT)
Wednesday, August 20, 1-2pm MDT (12PM PDT/3PM EDT)
Since the collection is divided into three acts and several themes we will spread the sections out across the three meetings. The first meeting we will focus on Chapters 1-12. The second meeting will look Chapters 13-28. The third meeting will cover Chapters 29-41.
A Zoom link for all meetings will be sent out to registrants with registration confirmation as well as in a reminder prior to each meeting. If you have registered and you can't find your zoom link, please contact RMWCA Summer Book Club coordinator Heather Graham at heather.graham@slcc.edu.
The Summer Book Club is free to RMWCA members. Non-members pay a nominal fee to participate. Attendance fees for non-members fund RMWCA events. To request a fee waiver, contact RMWCA Treasurer, Clint Gardner at clint.gardner@slcc.edu.
Best regards,
Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association
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More about the book (from The WAC Clearinghouse site):
Storying Writing Center Labor for Anti-Capitalist Futures
By Genie Nicole Giaimo and Daniel Lawson
With Chapters from 34 Colleagues
Copy edited by Caitlin Kahihikolo. Designed by Mike Palmquist.
Rooted in storying and testimony, Storying Writing Center Labor offers an inclusive, theoretically grounded, labor-oriented approach to writing center scholarship and praxis. While emotional labor and other wellness-related topics have long received attention in the field, issues of precarity, austerity, workism, and related concerns remain under-examined. Marrying ethnography and storying to uncover trends and circumstances related to writing center labor, this book offers insights into the lived working experiences of writing center professionals along with actionable items for creating just, sustainable, and intentional workspaces. Importantly, Storying Writing Center Labor tackles long-established labor issues in the field that have been and continue to be exacerbated by higher education’s austerity politics and reliance on disaster capitalism to inform decision making.
