Diversity Thugs: Intersections of the Academic, Personal and Political

This essay explores questions of what it means to participate in publicness—to be both discursively and physically in public spaces and to perform (functionally) and perform (productively) our identities as citizens of local, national, and global communities. Using a multiple/collaborative autoethnographic approach, the authors further theorize on the relationality, emotionality, and affect of both public response and collaborative methodology.