ABSTRACT
This chapter reenacts the collective presentation given by five graduate students at a roundtable discussion that took place on their campus. From that day, the scholars have continued to ask, “Who is listening?” when the underrepresented speak back to power. These students mark the institution’s inability to hear them as indicative of a broader problem within academia. While the roundtable discussion did not directly impact the larger structures that constrain the students’ academic experiences, they have managed to forge interpersonal bonds and a counter-network as sustainable pathways forward towards enacting the greater change they seek: the deployment of polyvocal narratives, collective co-witnessing, and spectral modes of engagement.
