College Composition and Communication Sep 2023

To Embrace Tension or Recoil Away from It: Navigating Complex Collaborations in Cultural Rhetorics Work

Isabella ‘Amne Gomez ; Amy J. Lueck

Abstract

In this article, we share and reflect on our experience working together (as a Native youth and settler scholar) to develop a cultural camp for tribal youth. Through reflection and storytelling, we came to realize the complexities of attempting to support what Scott Lyons terms “rhetorical sovereignty” (particularly of youth) in real institutional contexts, of appealing to different audiences without compromising our vision, and of determining where the line really is between “I” and “we” in our writing and our visions for this work. In short, we have come to realize how complicated justice-driven work really is and how the process has actually changed us both along the way. We use our own stories of collaboration and the program we designed to explore both the possibilities and complexities of allyship and collaboration across difference in our cultural rhetorics practice.

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College Composition and Communication
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2023-09-01
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10.58680/ccc202332668
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