Collaging Co-Mentorship: A Feminist Approach for Mentorship, Troubling Norms, and Imagining Otherwise

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Abstract

Academic mentoring often socializes students/faculty to dominant institutional norms that reproduce problematic systems and practices. In this paper, we (doctoral candidate, recent PhD, faculty) explore our ongoing feminist use of collaborative collaging to trouble mentorship that supports neoliberal norms rather than diverse embodied beings. Collaging processes generate new ways of knowing, being, and thriving through creativity, collaboration, and embodied reflection as legitimate and generative scholarly practices. We highlight four emerging discoveries: Our co-mentoring collaging practice (1) fostered dialogic thinking spaces that enabled us to refuse institutional logics; (2) offered opportunities to craft our becoming in new ways, (3) facilitated embodied re(orientations) of creating and repurposing; and (4) nourished the art of “failing” (Halberstam, 2011) problematic institutional norms.

Authors

• Lucy E. Bailey, Oklahoma State University

• Stacie L. Warner, Oklahoma State University

• Lindsey Abernathy, Oklahoma State University