In this special Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival episode, Dr. Amanda Patterson Partin is joined by scholar and educator Dr. Codi Renee Blackmon (Johns Hopkins University) for a rich, honest conversation about generative AI, linguistic justice, and what writing instruction looks like in a moment of technological whiplash.

Together, they explore how AI intersects with students’ rights to their own language, the tension between standard academic English and rhetorical context, and the real consequences of surveillance, automation, and bias in writing classrooms. From the AI refusal movement to classroom praxis, from joy in writing to abstinence-education metaphors that absolutely make sense, this episode sits squarely in the messy middle. No panic. No hype. Just critical care.

This episode is part of the Big Rhetorical Podcast Car ...