Thank you, Daphne, for all that you do to help all of us.  You really do 
"make a difference."
All best,
Judith Sinclair, PhD
Cognitive Psychologist and Educator
www.sinclairsystem.com
(202) 364-3893
j-p-sinclair at att.net





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG at langate.gsu.edu>
To: <womenliteracy at nifl.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:55 AM
Subject: [WomenLiteracy 636] list merger



> For those of you who are not in the mood to read my reactions about the

> discussion we have been having about the upcoming list merger (women and

> literacy with poverty, race and literacy), I will start with information

> first, and share my thoughts later.

>

> Here is the information:

> On November 6th, the new poverty race women, and literacy list will be

> open with me as the facilitator, and this list (women and literacy) will

> be closed (although archives of postings will still be available).

> You will not need to UNSUBSCRIBE from the women and literacy list.

> You will need to SUBSCRIBE to the poverty race women, and literacy

> list. In other words, just because you are subscriber to this list, does

> not mean that you can assume that you will be a subscriber of the new

> list. You need to actually subscribe. In the next few days, NIFL will

> post information about how to do this.

>

> Here are my reactions:

> Wow-what a rich discussion we had here these last two week about the

> upcoming list merger ! Thanks to all for sharing your thoughts!

> I would like to respond to some of them:

> 1. A few wondered on list and off list whether we could convince NIFL

> to change its mind. I checked with NIFL, and unfortunately there is

> nothing we can do about it for this year (November 2006-October 2007).

> However, the good news is that they are open to us discussing this for

> the following year. So my suggestion to this group, is let us see what

> this new merger brings us. If we like it, then fine. If we don't, and we

> end up missing a listserv devoted specifically to women and literacy I

> will bring this up to NIFL next summer on our behalf.

> 2. A few mentioned on the list and off the list changing the name of

> the list. Some of you mentioned that we just may as well call it The

> oppressed and literacy (I have to admit, I had a similar reaction),

> others wondered about why homophobia is not included (I have wondered

> this too, and have encouraged discussion about orientation and literacy

> on this listserv). I checked with NIFL about whether we could have a

> voice in the name of the listserv. Apparently we can have for the

> future, but we can't do it for this present year. So once again, I think

> that we should revisit this issue next summer and see if we want to

> change the name of the newly formed list.

> 3. I want to reassure all of you, that I will continue to facilitate a

> safe community. You may be reassured to know that 40% of current poverty

> race list members are on this list, and 46% of us are currently on the

> poverty race list! So a good part of the new community, will include a

> lot of people who already "know" each other, and know the type of

> listserv atmosphere we value.

> 4. Some of you mentioned that although discussing intersections is

> important, there is also value talking about separate issues. I want to

> stress, that I don't see the new listserv as only talking about

> intersections. I think that many times, perhaps even most of the time,

> we will be talking about women only, or race only, or poverty only.

> Other times we will intersect two of these factor, other times all of

> them.

>

> Feel free to post anymore questions/concerns to this listserv, or to me

> personally (dgreenberg at gsu.edu).

>

> Daphne

>

>

>

> Daphne Greenberg

> Assistant Professor

> Educational Psych. & Special Ed.

> Georgia State University

> P.O. Box 3979

> Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979

> phone: 404-651-0127

> fax:404-651-4901

> dgreenberg at gsu.edu

>

> Daphne Greenberg

> Associate Director

> Center for the Study of Adult Literacy

> Georgia State University

> P.O. Box 3977

> Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977

> phone: 404-651-0127

> fax:404-651-4901

> dgreenberg at gsu.edu

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