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Female narrator: Rhetoric is the body. The body is rhetorical in that it speaks, listens, and is written on.

Digital voice: Body play body play body play...

Male interviewee: He is thinking about,  what does it mean to be a white heterosexual male who doesn't really identify?  It doesn't feel--it feels awkward being in that paradigm or amongst those spaces, and yet when I go into spaces that are non-white, non-heterosexual, or non-male spaces, then I also don't really fit over there because I'm still in this body. So there's been a lot of thinking about my literacy of my own body.

Female narrator: From the spatial intermingling of practices there emerged a specific centrism between athletics and rhetoric a particular crossover of pedagogical practices and learning styles, a crossover that contributed to the development of rhetoric as body art, an art learned, practiced, and performed by and with the body as well as the mind.

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Female narrator: I think my biggest literacy is being able to read the body,  my main job as a teacher, choreographer, and dancer is to be able to read and interpret movement

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There is power, fragility, beauty, and monstrosity in the rhetorical body.

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There is determination, strength in the rhetorical body. There is a peace and a knowledge in listening to the rhetoric of one's body.

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There is a violence in  having the rhetoric of our bodies stolen from us, and social, cultural, and political narratives not our own are written and re-encoded on our body. It is through our bodies that violence occurs--yes. Our bodies are battlegrounds--yes. But it is also through our bodies that we live, breathe, and die. It is through our bodies that we are born and give birth. It is through our bodies that we feel and express passion, despair, desire, and devotion, dialectically. It is our bodies that are fragmented and whole. It is our bodies that time stops and continues on. It is our bodies that speak, it is our bodies that we listen to there's our bodies that are written on. It is our bodies that are rhetorical.

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Singer: what a wicked thing to say, you never felt that way. What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you I don't want to fall in love...