In her paper,
How to Write as Felt: Touching Transmaterialities and More-Than-Human Intimacies, University of Toronto scholar Stephanie Springgay suggests that felt, a “dense material of permanently interlocking fibres,” can be linked to racism and capitalism.
It’s those “cis-heteronormative White supremacist settler colonial logics,” you see. And the “queer self-touching,” obviously.
Professor links felt - yes, the material - to white supremacy - The College Fix
'K as a teacher, I apologize for this abject mess. All I can say is: this is Canada, but I fear the US is not far behind.
Some professors of ed are just failed teachers. This would seem to be one. Because this is garbage, straight up. Best thing her students could do is GET OUT of her classroom and get into some real classrooms, because this felt garbage is not going to equal a warm puddle of spit once actual K-12 students are waiting to be impressed. High school students would snicker right in the face of this, God bless them.
How ridiculous.
Don't worry, there are plenty of retards like this and worse posing as teachers and professors right here in the US.
Oh believe me, as far as K-12 goes, fewer all the time. Fewer going into it, fewer staying. And I don't blame them not one bit. Because if you think teachers are "retards" (I don't like that name but whatever), you should see some of the adults we deal with as parents. And lots of lots of teachers are just saying I don't get paid enough to put up with this, especially in the very low-paying states. And as a teacher with over two-decades experience, I don't blame them one bit.
Don't get me wrong, there are bad teachers out there. But as society devolves, everything is getting worse, including kids' behavior and, worst of all, the behavior of adults. Wait 'til you see what's in the classroom in about ten years. You will WISH you had the teachers back we have now.