ABOUT THIS SITE:

My name is Ann Withorn and I am the creator of the Radical ReEntry web platform.

I started this website because I miss my office at the College of Public and Community Service at U.Mass.Boston, where I taught from 1977-2013.

I’m pleased both to retire and to move into the Radical ReEntry phase of my life.  But I do miss my place where people of all sorts would just stop by.  Some had appointments; often they were people who saw my open door, my bulletin board covered with changing posters, cartoons, bumper stickers and anything else that served as a hook for talking about almost anything with anybody. My office was full of books,  journals, as well as newsletters, flyers, position papers from all sorts of movements and activist groups.  It looked a mess but I could usually find something to give any visitor as a takeaway, and an invitation to more dialogue.

On this website I have posted many of the things I used to share — articles and letters, proposals and position papers I wrote over the years, some unpublished, others printed in non-cataloged, much less digitized, movement publications. The four pages containing such material are 1) “The Personal is Political,” 2)”Welfare Rights, Human Rights and Basic Income,” 3)”Radical Higher Education,” and 4)”Movement Building.” I hope to start using a Good Reads and Resources Page soon, bear with me.

You can also check out the “About Me” page for a summary of what I have been up to throughout the course of my life of working, writing, speaking and agitating.

AND, please check out my blog for on-going commentary and conversation.  PLEASE NOTE I have a FB account where I am now trying to post my blog entries, but try hard to be in touch with me directly through this blog.  Facebook is too open, and confusing.  I will read posts though at least weekly

 

Step into the archive and take a look around!

WELCOME TO THE ONLINE LEARNING SPACE

NOTE:  You can browse the full content of this site through the drop down menu up top, or you can explore elements of it through the Radical Re Entry Learning Space door linked above.

 

“We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of the world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.” –Jack Gilbert, “A Brief for the Defense”

“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”  ― Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous  

THANKS FOR VISITING!