Author: Noah Wilson

On April 4, 2020, I read an article from the BBC which reported that 5G towers in the UK were being destroyed, lit on fire by people who believed that the rise of 5G infrastructure was causing COVID-19 symptoms not a virus. This vandalism is a tangible outcome of some people’s overzealous belief in the conspiracy theories that tend to crop up in times of great uncertainty. This explains why on May 04, 2020, I was not surprised to find “Plandemic,” a polished, documentary-style COVID-19 conspiracy theory video had made the rounds on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook garnering millions of…

Session C13: “Designing Inclusive Futures: Black Feminist Design(s) as Ethical Practice in Administration, Pedagogy, and Research” Presenters: Floyd Pouncil, Nicholas Sanders, and Constance Haywood Review by Noah Wilson The panel “Designing Inclusive Futures” provided attendees a working conceptualization of Black Feminism and then challenged them to consider ways to use it as a heuristic to re-envison their work as researchers, teachers, and administrators. While each presentation focused on one of the aforementioned academic roles, they collectively demonstrated the ways these areas overlap and raise productive questions for what it means to critically examine academic work. Floyd Pouncil – “Black Feminist…