Theatergoers who attend a live play or musical become immersed into the sensational world of the actors' dialogue, musical beats, dancers' steps, and other sound effects. The multisensory stimulation accompanies the mind's exposure to cultural themes, with the rapid and innovative sonic language of Hamilton in the limelight of recent musical theater. Genuine participation in these cultural conversations, however, requires that audience members can fully access these messages.

Trans* communities across the United States are under assault by radical extremist forces seeking to inflame partisanship by promoting hateful ideologies as wedge issues. This phenomenon is playing out in all manner of mediums—from radio stations, television studios, and the Internet to courtrooms, convention stages, and the halls of Congress.

Despite the influence of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed in North American academic circles, to my knowledge, there has been no significant attempt to rethink the 1970 Myra Bergman Ramos English translation. In this article, I address one aspect of this issue, by attending to how the words ser and estar are rhetorically figured in the Paz e Terra edition of Pedagogia do oprimido. Employing a comparative rhetorical methodology,

A woman-owned community print shop. Textile art made from salvaged materials. An open-source feminist hacker zine. A free skool that teaches UX. A makerspace in a public library. An independently published children’s book about lowriders. For the last several years, we have worked with a loose collective of scholars devoted to Do It Yourself (DIY) approaches to teaching writing.

Significant work in rhetoric and composition has been done to connect the value systems surrounding language use to the raced, gendered, and classed structural inequalities that dominate much of life in the United States. This tension is often inscribed in language policy, where how one speaks and writes often becomes a stand-in for who is able to fully access public and social services and resources.