When I reflect on the research I conducted for my dissertation, it focused on bringing those who have been regulated to the margins to the center (both in reimagining and reconstructing the Civil Rights Movement to highlight the role of Black Women, and in the composition classroom). Marginalized students, in particular, are often asked to consume knowledge and reproduce it in order to show progress- to demonstrate that they are learning, to show that, according to university standards, they are becoming “educated.” But are they? Is the process of regurgitating information, in which you have no agency, a demonstration of actual learning (is it a demonstration of intellectual, personal, and…