Seeding Radical Imagination, Moving Beyond Separability, Provoking Authentic Self Expression, and Generating Communal Practices While Situated on the Precipice of Humanity’s Destruction

Abstract

Rocketed out of our winter break respite by an email about the upcoming deadline for manuscripts for this journal, we read Karl L. Wheatley’s article and discover alignment between his reference to teaching toward ecological literacy with “courage to keep sticking my neck out and talking about the elephants in the room” and our shared need for “more social and professional support from people in a similar position” (p. 63). Inspired, we begin crafting place-based ethico-onto-epistemological critical autoethnographic vignettes to illuminate what living this inquiry with the lens of currere looks like for us as citizens of Newark, New Jersey and agent provocateurs within colonial institutions.