Note on The How and the Why, Part 4 via Sara Hendren

The question is not: am I welcome or unwelcome here, on this campus-as-one-mass, as my “true self”? The question is: How will this campus space form the many virtues and habits I need to be free, and how will that space down the quad also do so, but very differently? An ill-conceived appeal to hazy “authenticity” would tell us that all spaces should welcome the same kinds of speech, the same kinds of concerns, the same kinds of relationality. But a more dimensional view of personhood — and the dimensional, specific spaces in which our lives play out — would nourish the multitudes each person contains.

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Sara Hendren

The How and the Why, Part 4

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