PUBLIC NOTICE | FORMAL CEASE AND DESIST

holly burgess issues FORMAL CEASE & DESIST to Marquette university

Sun 04/05/26 10:03 PM

NOTICE OF RESCISSION

Monday, April 6, 2026 at 7:19 PM

ALL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND EXPRESSIONS OF GRATITUDE REGARDING MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY, ITS ADMINISTRATION, AND ITS DONOR NETWORKS ARE HEREBY FORMALLY RESCINDED.

This action is taken pending the outcome of a Federal Civil Rights and Whistleblower Audit.

This site and its associated research on "Transcribing Brutality" now serve as a record of administrative and fiduciary negligence. Any further unauthorized use of my likeness or intellectual property by the institution is subject to immediate legal action.

Photo of Holly Burgess seated with her hand cupping her cheek. She is stressed in a blue shirt and black blazer. She is wearing Black Raybans.

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Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

“Capacitating Community: The Writing Innovation Symposium”

Fishman, Jenn, et al. “Capacitating Community: The Writing Innovation Symposium.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, Apr. 2023, pp. 49–67.

“Writing As a Black Scholar: Teaching Black Activism, Hip-Hop, and the Cost of Activism.” 

Writing As a Black Scholar: Teaching Black Activism, Hip-Hop, and the Cost of Activism.”Bedford Bits Blog, Macmillan Learning Community. October 2023.

Works under progress/review

In Black Women’s Digital Rhetoric: Healing, Resistance, and the Rhetoric of #JUSTus. Ed. Jessica Ridgeway

“Embodied Digital Rhetoric and Racialized Labor: A Black Woman Graduate Student’s Activism amid White Performativity.”

2026


Submitted to Arts (Special Issue: Contemporary Development of American Film). Eds. Catherine L. Benamou and Philana Payton

“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: Black Women’s Revolutionary Freedom and the Black Power Movement in Coffy (1973) and Alice (2022).”

2026


Related Work

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I bring the revolutionary lineages of Black literature into the class