How Queering Your Writing Can Help You Find Your Voice And Finish Your Thesis -- Even If You're Straight

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In this presentation Lori Selke centers on the idea of not just code-switching but deliberately mashing high and low modes of discourse together is one way to develop one's own academic voice, keep oneself entertained and motivated while writing, and better convey one's meaning, too.

Lori Selke is a doctoral candidate in the International and Multicultural Education program at the University of San Francisco. They hold an MA-TESOL from USF and currently teach English to adult Speakers of Other Languages in the shadow of City Hall in San Francisco. Previously, they were a part of the queer and radical sexuality publishing and spoken-word scene in (ahem) fin de siecle San Francisco. They live in Oakland.