Ceci’s Community Classroom is a space for inquiry, reflection, dialogue, and learning with, from, and about one another. Disagreement is welcome. Disrespect is not.
As we learn together:
- Engage ideas without attacking people. Question claims, interpretations, evidence, policies, and assumptions without personal insults or harassment.
- No hate speech or dehumanizing language. Racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, religiously hateful, ableist, or other language used to demean or target people or groups is not acceptable.
- Context matters. Some of the historical documents, media, scholarship, and personal archives we study may contain offensive language, including racial slurs. We can examine that language when it is relevant to the inquiry. We do not weaponize it against one another.
- Make room for complexity. People enter these conversations with different experiences, knowledge, identities, and perspectives. Ask questions, examine evidence, and be willing to reconsider an interpretation.
- Do not assume someone else’s experience. Speak from what you know, what you have experienced, and what the evidence supports.
- Respect privacy. Do not repost or share another participant’s personal story, reflection, or identifying information outside the space where they chose to share it without permission.
- Help the learning travel responsibly. Share ideas, questions, resources, and activities in ways that invite learning rather than harm.
We do not have to agree with one another to learn with, from, and about one another. We do have to treat one another as human beings worthy of dignity and respect.
Comments or participation that do not follow these expectations may be removed or restricted.