Document Type
Issues in Community Literacy
Abstract
In this collaborative essay Audrey Simango, Matthew Stadler, and Alison Turner--Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) at The GOAT PoL--explore the subject of money. Most discussions about money have focused on "debates over compensation" of research subjects (Snow et al. 54), or connections between community writing and well-funded projects, such as the Federal Writers Project of the 1930s (Mutnick). After providing context for The GOAT PoL, we reflect on the way our small payments to participants shift our relationships. We ask: 1) How does the exchange of money on The GOAT PoL affect the RAE's experience of reading, editing, and advising authors? 2) How do the challenges we encounter by paying authors make visible what we thought we knew about power and privilege across international writing projects?; and 3) Is it possible for the exchange of money--with its unpredictable impacts--to expand and deepen, rather than shrink and diminish, the polity of literature?
Recommended Citation
Simango, Audrey; Stadler, Matthew; and Turner, Alison
(2023)
"Payment in the Polity: Funded Community Writing Projects,"
Community Literacy Journal: Vol. 17:
Iss.
2, Article 8.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/communityliteracy/vol17/iss2/8
