Saw Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma last night, and 1) I will now watch anything Jane Schoenbrun makes and 2) across her work, Hannah Einbinder is living every lesbian's wish fulfillment dream
Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson)
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they/them | assistant prof in professional writing | feminist, queer, and trans digital rhetorics + storytelling online | 🐈🧶⛺👟 veelawson.com For better or worse, these are all my opinions.
![Conference Is Community
As framed in the epigraph to this call, the 2026 Convention vision, in part, is shaped by Wendy Bishop's 2001 CCCC keynote. For Bishop, a conference is community, a place to encounter old friends and new ideas-and new friends and old ideas. So too, in Cleveland we'll share notions of what the Convention is now and visions of what it might be in the future. To discuss this theme, there will be conversation circles and focus groups to reflect on the idea of a conference and what it can offer to our members. These ideas from our community and about our community will be brought back to the CCCC leadership and shared with membership at the next Convention.
We talk to each other through journals, newsletters, and Web pages. We converse formally through panels and informally in the hallways at our conferences. In our search for understanding how the written word works, we simplify for our students (the five-paragraph essay) and complexify for each other (a Bakhtinian moment in a Vygotskyan process on the margins of the contact zone). Often our unum gets lost in our pluribus [thesis statement]."
—John Lovas, "All Good Writing Develops at the Edge of Risk," 265](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qte44on6rqh5pi6p2g6a2tmg/bafkreiaox5nz4pl2xgdsnltre5g4hayq3ryrhp5tvsoiyjfpxzta5qygxu)
