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<i><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">Present Tense</span></i><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> journal
is pleased to announce the release of<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px"><a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-9/ncte-cccc-cross-caucus-present-tense/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">volume
9, issue 2</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">: “</span><span style="margin:0px"><a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-9/ncte-cccc-cross-caucus-present-tense/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Diversity
is not an End Game: BIPOC Futures in the Academy</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">.” This powerful text comes to you care of Christina V. Cedillo, Ersula J. Ore, and
Kimberly Gail Wieser, special issue editors.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">“Diversity is not an End Game: BIPOC Futures in the Academy” marks the final installment in a conversation across multiple journals that examines the injustices
behind crisis-driven diversity initiatives within the academy and how these initiatives impact BIPOC across the fields of rhetoric, composition, and communication.</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">In this issue, BIPOC scholars critique universities’ pursuit of equity as only the latest institutional and/or intellectual trend, one often framed as work
best left to already overworked minoritized people (O’Meara et al. 2018); a goal, tool, or means to an<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px"><em><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">end</span></em></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>as
opposed to an ongoing “holistic approach to change” (Safir and Dugan 2021); and/or yet another modality through which whiteness is reified as the main determinant of social and professional worth—and of one’s full humanity (see Birt, 2004). To situate diversity
as the end game or final destination is to diminish the potential for an equitable future for higher education.</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Using counternarratives, testimonios, critiques of tokenism, institutional allyship, and racialized time, the BIPOC scholars of rhetoric, composition, and
communication studies featured in this special issue detail strategies for navigating the violence white scholars and the academy enact against BIPOC faculty under the guise of advancing diversity and inclusion. Though “Diversity is not an End Game: BIPOC
Futures in the Academy” is the last piece of our immediate project, we trust that this will not be the final word on antiracism in our field nor the academy.</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">We invite your engagement with the following scholarship:</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pritha Prasad’s “</span><span style="margin:0px"><a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-9/backchannel-pedagogies-unsettling-racial-teaching-moments-and-white-futurity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Backchannel
Pedagogies: Unsettling Racial Teaching Moments and White Futurity</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">”</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Andrea Riley Mukavetz and Cindy Tekobbe’s “</span><span style="margin:0px"><a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-9/if-you-dont-want-us-there-you-dont-get-us-a-statement-on-indigenous-visibility-and-reconciliation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">If
you don’t want us there, you don’t get us”: A Statement on Indigenous Visibility and Reconciliation</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">”</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:white">Robert Mejia, Nina Maria Lozano, and Ariana Arely Cano’s “</span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(85, 85, 85)"><a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-9/people-were-being-nasty-white-fragility-and-calls-for-collective-violence-against-scholars-of-color/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">People
Were Being Nasty”: White Fragility and Calls for Collective Violence against Scholars of Color</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(85, 85, 85)">”</span></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:white">Angie Mejia and Yuko Taniguchi</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">’s
“</span><a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-9/art-and-heart-to-counter-the-one-hour-zoom-diversity-event-counterspaces-as-a-response-to-diversity-regimes-in-academia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Art
and Heart to Counter the One-hour-Zoom-diversity Event: Counterspaces as a Response to Diversity Regimes in Academia</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">”</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:white">J. Paul Padilla</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">’s “</span><a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-9/a-shared-dream-a-letter-to-my-son-ricardo-about-silencing-and-bipoc-futurity-in-the-academy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">A
Shared Dream: A Letter to My Son Ricardo about Silencing and BIPOC Futurity in the Academy</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">”</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:white">Staci M. Perryman-Clark, Mariam Konate, and Jennifer Richardson</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">’s
“</span><a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-9/a-time-to-dream-black-womens-exodus-from-white-feminist-spaces/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="7" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">A
Time to Dream: Black Women’s Exodus from White Feminist Spaces</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">”</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></p>
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