Confronting Toxic Rhetoric: Writing Teachers’ Experiences of Rupture, Resistance, and Resilience

A book for writing teachers who are looking for hope…

“We ask the question: ‘How did toxic rhetoric affect you?’ in order to document the alarm, the difficulties, the strong feelings, the sadness, the rage, the life-changing impacts of toxic rhetoric such as rights-restricting policies, educational gag orders, the exclusion of people, the increased violence. We also ask: ‘So what did you do?’ to share contravening rhetorics of coping, activism, and belief for the future through the teaching of writing and rhetoric.”