This blog is a part of a project aimed at devising an art-based method that privileges “experience as the poem,” to quote Paul Willis. The goal is for people to create and share art that they’ve created that highlights their experiences of silence, marginalization, resistance, and solidarity. This blog is meant to be a clearinghouse for these creations so that they can be discussed, critiqued, and most of all, reproduced and posted! In a place like UIUC, where the power structure maintains order and control by creating a spectacle of silence, naming our violations, challenging normative constructions and telling stories that trouble the coherency of the institution is necessary if we are to practice intellectual insurgency. In order to foster a critical pedagogy that summons “the traditions of freedom in which most of us were reared,” to quote Maxine Greene. Art as disruption must be linked to a political space of critical engagement. This is a first step.