Reflecting on Memorable Aspects of Our Past Communities
A question for the Community: Think back to a community that younger you was a part of, and still remember to this day... What aspects about it made it memorable/special?
A question for the Community: Think back to a community that younger you was a part of, and still remember to this day... What aspects about it made it memorable/special?
Y’all. I love this! Mine was the college forensics listserv IE-L (Individual Events listserv) started back in like 1993 or 1994. It worked a bit like slack actually, if all slack threads were subsequent emails. 😅
Ok, that sounds terrible today, but back before email marketing, it was kind of delightful. And I was an early adopter—and it’s how I got to know a lot of the people I only saw at weekend tournaments. Lots of passionate discussion on the intricacies of performance and proto discussions about authenticity, equity, community.
The director of my program hated it. But that was partially because it could expose some of his unprofessional behavior. It helped everyone involved feel connected and engaged, and with a voice in the larger community of individual events in forensics (public speaking and performance, not dead bodies).
There you go Charles O. 
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