Confronting Toxic Rhetoric

Jamie White-Farnham is Professor in the Writing Program and Director of Teaching, Learning and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. Her research on feminist and material rhetorics, women’s health rhetorics, and antiracist rhetorics can be found in College English, Rhetoric Review, Computers & Compositions, among others. She is the co-editor of Writing Program Architecture and Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century and co-author of Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health (2023).Cathryn Molloy is Professor of Writing Studies in the University of Delaware’s Department of English. She is co-editor of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine journal as well as co-editor of the books Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric, and Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century. She is the author of Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine: Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis (2020) and co-author of Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health (2023).Bryna Siegel Finer is Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Writing Programs at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is associate editor of the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine journal as well as co-editor of the Writing Spaces book series. Her research focuses primarily on women’s health rhetorics and writing program administration and has been published in Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, Rhetoric Review, Teaching English in the Two Year College, Journal of Writing Assessment, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor of Writing Program Architecture and Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century, and co-author of Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health.

• Acknowledgments – Jamie White-Farnham: Confronting Toxic Rhetoric Prelude: Origin Stories of Toxic Rhetoric – Jamie White-Farnham/Cathryn Molloy/BrynaSiegel Finer: Introduction – Whitney Jordan Adams: Site of Contention: Rhetorics of/and Stone Mountain, Georgia – Craig A. Meyer: When Two Sides Are Too Many: Using Fairness in Unfair Ways – MatthewBoedy: Taking on Toxic Rhetoric in the Classroom – Liping Yang: From "Kung Flu" to #StopAAPIHate: Confronting Toxic Anti-AAPI Rhetoric through Contemporary Activism and Digital Literacy – Sarah Lonelodge: Responding in Real Time: A Course in Rhetoric, Propaganda, Demagoguery, and Misinformation – MirandaL. Egger: Social, Digital Annotation as a Tool for the Future of Democratic Discourse – Bruce Bowles Jr.: "The Action is on You!": Examining When and Why to Engage—or not Engage—Rhetorically – Charles McMartin: Teaching Toward Coalitions: Combating the Toxic Rhetoric Around Critical Race Theory and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Sarah M. Shea: The Elephant in the Room: On Responding to Potential Toxic Rhetoric in Tutoring Sessions – Daniel Cole: Detoxifying Debate: Confluences of Composition and Conflict Resolution – Postscript: (Re)Calling the Character of a Career: A Letter of Thanks to John Duffy by Rachel Ketai – Notes on Contributors – Index.