This dialogue features university leaders, Dr. John L. Jackson, Jr., a filmmaker and anthropologist, and Dr. E. Patrick Johnson, a self-described sexuality, gender, and performance studies “trickster.”
“I don’t think there’s ever an equal playing field as such because there’s so many built-in hierarchies, but even within those hierarchies trying to provide resources and a voice to those folks who are often forgotten is what social justice looks like to me. And outside the academy it looks like using the resources from this perch of privilege to redistribute some of the wealth from this insitution into those communities”