CCCC 2022

The third year of digital C's conferences has now come and gone! The 2020 conference was scheduled to be held in Milwaukee, WI, the 2021 was supposed to be in Spokane, WA, and then this year's conference was supposed to be in Chicago, IL. I was so excited for two midwestern cities and less travel time, and then the Milwaukee conference was canceled, and the Spokane and Chicago conferences were moved online. The good news is that the 2023 conference has been rescheduled for Chicago, and I'm crossing my fingers that it will actually be in person!

Digital conferences aside, I was very happy to have two proposals accepted for the CCCC 2022 conference. The first was an individual poster presentation about grading contracts, similar to what I had presented on at Olivet in the spring, although this presentation focused on grading contracts as an antiracist pedagogical assessment method, as it focuses on equity instead of equality within the classroom.

The other accepted presentation was as part of the CCCC Feminist Workshop co-chair team, which I have been a part of since 2018. This year's workshop was titled "Building Brave Spaces by Centering a Coalition of Feminist Leadership: Responding to Trauma through Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Feminist Practices." The workshop was four hours long and hosted through multiple Zoom rooms that included main talks, breakout groups, and workshops, all while hearing from feminist scholars on a variety of topics that focus on building brave spaces and what coalition work in response to trauma really looks like.

I presented my poster as part of the open commons on the C's website, and I am glad that people had the opportunity to view it that way, and I have gotten some good feedback on what I presented. My full poster can be found here , and it includes the grading contract I used, specifics on that, the theoretical foundations, and reflections from both me and a student. I am thinking about using grading contracts again in the fall, so this was also a good way for me to refocus and remember the work and purpose of this type of assessment.

The workshop, as I said, was insightful, engaging, and challenging, as we heard from a range of younger scholars and then had older, most established scholars in the field respond to those speakers and add additional questions and insights. The four hours went pretty quickly, but I was a bit fatigued by the end as I had the role of live-tweeting and posting on Instagram stories throughout the whole workshop, so I felt like I was always trying to catch up and not miss any of the good stuff!

The Instagram stories can be found on the CCCC Feminist Caucus Instagram under the highlight "Fem Wkshp '22." I also live tweeted on the CCCC Feminist Caucus Twitter, but I don't know how long those tweets will be at the top of the feed. I enjoyed the workshop, and I'm glad to have been a part even digitally. That's a wrap on CCCC 2022!