LSU faculty statement
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As faculty at LSU, we are committed to the safety and wellbeing of our students, and we stand up against hatred, intolerance, and bigotry. We have prepared a faculty statement to print in the Reveille and we invite you to join us as a signatory (statement is below).
The statement and signatures will be printed as a full page ad and will run in the first issue of next semester's Reveille (pub date is Thursday Jan 12). The cost to print a full page ad is $875. If we meet our goal of 100 signatures, we can do this. Otherwise, we will print a half-page ad.
If you are a faculty member and would like your name to be included as a signer of the statement, please donate $10 to this GoFundMe campaign and include your name in the comments box as you would like it to be published.
We think a statement of this kind is critically important for our students, many of who have experienced intimidation and fear since the election.
If you have any questions or trouble with the GoFundMe site, please do not hesitate to contact Cat Jacquet (WGS and History). You can also send an email using the link on this page.
Many thanks,
Michael Bibler (English)
Chris Barrett (English)
Bryan McCann (Comm St)
Cat Jacquet (WGS and History)
LSU Faculty Statement In Support of Our Students
We, as individual faculty members, reaffirm our support for all our students and alumni who may be feeling vulnerable and unsafe at this uncertain time in our nation. Throughout the 2016 election season, and in the weeks since November 8th, there has been an increase in verbal and physical threats, harassment, and assaults directed at LGBTQIA people, women, Muslims and Arab-Americans, Jewish people, Black people, Indigenous people, Mexicans, Latinx, immigrant communities, and people with disabilities.* Many of us have heard first-hand of incidents affecting our students in and around Baton Rouge, especially LGBTQIA students and students of color. We also acknowledge that all identities are intersectional, and that prejudice against one perceived minority easily feeds into prejudices against others.
As practitioners and scholars of conscience, we are compelled to speak out against any acts of intolerance, bigotry, or abuse. For us, this is bigger than any political campaign; confronting hate should not be a partisan issue. Thus, we pledge to use our collective energies to push back against the climate of fear, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and anti-intellectualism that some have felt newly empowered to express in the context of the election. We pledge to do our best to provide alternatives to exclusion and reaction by exposing myths and lies through our research and writing, promoting critical inquiry in our classrooms, and building bridges of unity and understanding through service to the campus community. To all of our students, please know that we support you.
* In the ten days following the election, for example, the Southern Poverty Law Center documented 867 acts of harassment and intimidation aimed at minority individuals. https://www.splcenter.org/20161129/ten-days-after-harassment-and-intimidation-aftermath-election
The statement and signatures will be printed as a full page ad and will run in the first issue of next semester's Reveille (pub date is Thursday Jan 12). The cost to print a full page ad is $875. If we meet our goal of 100 signatures, we can do this. Otherwise, we will print a half-page ad.
If you are a faculty member and would like your name to be included as a signer of the statement, please donate $10 to this GoFundMe campaign and include your name in the comments box as you would like it to be published.
We think a statement of this kind is critically important for our students, many of who have experienced intimidation and fear since the election.
If you have any questions or trouble with the GoFundMe site, please do not hesitate to contact Cat Jacquet (WGS and History). You can also send an email using the link on this page.
Many thanks,
Michael Bibler (English)
Chris Barrett (English)
Bryan McCann (Comm St)
Cat Jacquet (WGS and History)
LSU Faculty Statement In Support of Our Students
We, as individual faculty members, reaffirm our support for all our students and alumni who may be feeling vulnerable and unsafe at this uncertain time in our nation. Throughout the 2016 election season, and in the weeks since November 8th, there has been an increase in verbal and physical threats, harassment, and assaults directed at LGBTQIA people, women, Muslims and Arab-Americans, Jewish people, Black people, Indigenous people, Mexicans, Latinx, immigrant communities, and people with disabilities.* Many of us have heard first-hand of incidents affecting our students in and around Baton Rouge, especially LGBTQIA students and students of color. We also acknowledge that all identities are intersectional, and that prejudice against one perceived minority easily feeds into prejudices against others.
As practitioners and scholars of conscience, we are compelled to speak out against any acts of intolerance, bigotry, or abuse. For us, this is bigger than any political campaign; confronting hate should not be a partisan issue. Thus, we pledge to use our collective energies to push back against the climate of fear, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and anti-intellectualism that some have felt newly empowered to express in the context of the election. We pledge to do our best to provide alternatives to exclusion and reaction by exposing myths and lies through our research and writing, promoting critical inquiry in our classrooms, and building bridges of unity and understanding through service to the campus community. To all of our students, please know that we support you.
* In the ten days following the election, for example, the Southern Poverty Law Center documented 867 acts of harassment and intimidation aimed at minority individuals. https://www.splcenter.org/20161129/ten-days-after-harassment-and-intimidation-aftermath-election
Organizer
Catherine Jacquet
Organizer
Baton Rouge, LA
