Mindful Activism

Lisa M. Tillmann is an activist scholar–teacher and social justice documentary filmmaker. At Rollins College, she holds the William R. Kenan Chair of Critical Media and Cultural Studies.Her relationship-centered activism has focused on issues such as LGBTQ+ civil rights, criminal justice reform, economic equity, and reducing gun violence. Kathryn Norsworthy is a queer activist, counseling psychologist, and George D. & Harriet W. Cornell Chair of Graduate Studies in Counseling and of Critical Media and Cultural Studies at Rollins College. Since 1997, she has been working in solidarity with and accompanying colleagues in Southeast and South Asia; together they conduct mindfulness-based, trauma informed, feminist-liberation projects, focusing on such issues as violence against women, healing-centered peacebuilding in areas of ethno-political conflict, HIV-AIDS, women’s leadership, LGBTQ+ civil rights, and transnational activism and social change. Steven Schoen, Associate Professor of Critical Media and Cultural Studies at Rollins College, is a media scholar focused on the rhetorics of documentary. He came to higher education from work as a video producer/director specializing in production for nonprofit organizations. Steve’s on- and off-campus activism has focused on issues ranging from gun violence to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.

Introduction: Birthing the Book 1. Sitting out “The Star-Spangled Banner” 2. Of All Days: Critical Pedagogy Outside the Classroom 3. Queer Border Crossings 4. Wind and Winding Roads: Friendship Amid Indefinite Confinement 5. “Say It Ain’t So”: Protecting a Nondiscrimination Policy from Appropriated Diversity Conclusion: Mindful Activists Debrief Mindful Activism