Translation: "I wanted to write something that sounded really profound, so I took a basket of liberal buzzwords and inventend a few of my own and threw them into this word salad." There is no literal translation because there is no meaning.
"Equally salient are my identities as a queer, able-bodied, cisgender woman, who grew up working class in the rural Midwestern United States."
Translation: "In a cataclysmic rejection of my middle-class upbringing, I have embraced homosexual lunacy sprinkled liberally (!) with heaps of white guilt. That'll show those mean ole parents of mine!"
Linley is an assistant professor of Education Policy and Leadership Studies at the University of Iowa.
Assistant professor: not good enough for a full professorship, so having to kowtow to the PC administration by writing claptrap like this.
"This manuscript explores the ways my identities, experiences and teaching paradigm anchor my commitment to the work of deconstructing whiteness."
Translation: "This manuscript is a public self-indulgence of my sophomoric inferiority complex, and an attempt to curry favor with the PC Establishment. It has no education or literary value, and is nothing more than a vehicle to expiate imagined sins and get me enough attention to earn a full professorship. How'd I do?"
I like your description of what she was doing - well done!
“”I make meaning of my own white identity through my commitment to reflexivity as a constant activity.””
I was going to say “normal people” don’t talk this way and then I read more and discovered - yep - not normal!!!!
What in the devil is “cisgender?”
“”Cisgender is a term for people whose gender identity matches the sex that they were assigned at birth.””
And why in the deuce do we need a label for that? Let’s do away with ALL LABELS for crying out loud!
The more I read your post, the better it gets...I love it! Much better than the person who was quoted...
Re: “not good enough for full professor”
Welllll, virtually everyone has to start out as an Asst. Prof. if they ever hope to work toward tenure. The problem is not that she is an Asst. Prof., it is the content of what she says.