ABSTRACT
Interruption can include speaking louder than or over someone, physically removing one's body away from a situation, and engaging someone in a dialogue or posing critical questions that might interrupt status quo ways of thinking, among other possibilities. Rhetors who use interruption as an interventionist rhetorical move, Reynolds argues, offer one possibility for effecting social change. As teacher-scholars trained in rhetoric, the authors also acknowledge the role of kairos in how individuals negotiate constrained agency and their intersectional identities in relation to the forms of interruptions they choose to enact. Tactical interruptions to sexism and other exclusionary practices are discussed by nearly all of our research participants, primarily as an immediate, individual reaction that sometimes, but not always, provides results. Research participants for this study were recruited through a formal call placed on faculty and staff listservs at several universities, regional and national listservs and interpersonal networking at the 2015 National Women's Studies Association Conference and Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference.
