rhetoriclee - February 17, 2021Gorman demonstrated in “The Hill We Climb” that she is uniquely skilled at using language that speaks to two audiences simultaneously: those who want to fight for true abolition and those who want to whitewash America’s ongoing enslavement of Black citizens. Hopefully everyone had a chance to watch or listen…
rhetoriclee - February 2, 2021In honor of National Sex Education Day on February 2nd, let me educate you about some sex stuff. Like talking dirty and talking about talking dirty the no-cliche RhetoricLee Speaking way. (Apparently I’m in the mood to rhyme to-day). Now, not everyone likes the descriptor “dirty” talk. It can seem…
rhetoriclee - January 19, 2021What’s up rhetoric nerds? Welcome back to RhetoricLee Speaking, a podcast committed to banishing banality one speech at a time. I am your hostess with the mostess, rhetoric professor Lee Pierce, she/they pronouns, loather of cliches and lover of a good old, finger to the man, take to the streets,…
rhetoriclee - January 5, 2021Jamelle Monae’s “Hell You Talmbout.” Jamila Woods’ “Blk Girl Soldier.” J. Cole’s “Middle Child.” Beyonce’s “Formation.” If you are unfamiliar with that list, it includes what I consider the best bangers to come out of music in response to the first wave of Black Lives Matter. Or the Movement for…
rhetoriclee - December 21, 2020With New Year’s fast approaching, we are all in store for our usual turning-of-the clock epiphany. Suddenly, everything changes and, at that moment, we just know. Even though calendars are made up and dates are arbitrary, still, you will be convinced that the changing of that fourth number on the…
rhetoriclee - August 26, 2020What’s up rhetoric nerds? Welcome back to RhetoricLee Speaking, a podcast committed to banishing banality one speech at a time. This week, RhetoricLee Speaking is proud to be part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020 on the theme The Digital Future of Rhetoric and Composition. Be sure to check…
rhetoriclee - July 28, 2020What’s up rhetoric nerds? Welcome back to RhetoricLee Speaking, a podcast committed to banishing banality one speech at a time. I love King Ezekiel from The Walking Dead. And it’s not just cause he’s a stone cold fox. Although certainly he’s that. No. I love King Ezekiel because he is…
rhetoriclee - May 27, 2020I love fewer things more than a really good story. But I loathe anecdotes. I know, I know. What possible bone could I have to pick with anecdotes? What, on earth, has she found to bitch about now? Those quick little examples, quirky little stories, that we tell to harmlessly…
rhetoriclee - May 13, 2020We’re on YouTube now! So head over the YouTube Channel RhetoricLee Speaking–same name–if you’d rather watch me rant at you rather than listen. I barely played sports in high school and all I remember from getting my ass handed to me in gym class, other than wishing we were allowed…
rhetoriclee - April 28, 2020If there’s one silver lining from the pile of bull-honkey that has been the media landscape during COVID-19, it is the resurgence of the television show Community on Netflix. Not only the fact that it’s back, but also that it has managed to grab a top ten Netflix ranking, renews…
