You can’t take a seat and dismantle…

I no longer believe one can simultaneously take a seat at the table and attempt to dismantle it. The contemporary white educational system is not structured to accommodate such expansion; it is sustained by mechanisms of control and by an elitist, exclusionary logic. I was naive to imagine I could slip through the cracks and render education more inclusive. There is a profound hypocrisy in remaining within these sanctioned frameworks merely to secure the label of “research.” Yet I continue to wonder whether the degree of possibility is ultimately dependent on the institution itself.