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My first year writing course, titled “Archiving LGBTQ Lives,” became an opportunity to reflect on archival work as a specific context through which we might practice this approach to ethos construction while also considering what it might mean to queer ethos. This essay argues that by interrogating the role ofthe archives in normalizing particular histories and ways of knowing,“Archiving LGBTQ Lives” worked to not only redefine, but to queer ethos by asking students to listen to the past in ways that centered their accountability to those who’ve been historically marginalized along intersecting lines of gender, sexuality, and race, and concludes by offering the scholarly personal narrative as a specific tool for helping students to think critically about their ethical relationship to the work of writing and to knowledge production more generally.  \nInRhtheietorceeceditorbsooKkat,hRethleeninRkingyan, EthosNancy: A FemiMeyersistandEcoRleobgicecaclaAppJonersoadcehfitnoea “feminist ecological imaginary” as “a creative and social way of thinking, a living philosophy that better accounts for ethos construction” (3) . The concept of a feminist ecological imaginary offers a refined definition of ethos that not only considers one’s own subject position in relationship to others, but also the “shifting material, cultural and historical situation circulating around rhetorical acts” (5) . This definition of ethos reframes our normative understanding of the term, which in the context of classical rhetoric, is often associated with efforts to affirm one’s individual credibility and persuasive power, which Ryan, et al. argue lacks a consideration of relationships across difference (5) . As an alternative to classical rhetoric, scholarship in the field of feminist rhetorical studies defines ethos as a rhetorical practice interested, instead, in negotiating differences across relationships. In her now well-known book, Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, and Whiteness, Krista Ratcliffe offers listening, in particular, as a rhetorical practice that performs “a conscious choice to assume an open stance in relation to any person, text, or  \nComposition Studies 48.3 (2020): 16–34  \nculture,” proceeding from an “accountability logic” (rather than an attempt to affirm one’s one own credibility) and recognizes that “all people necessarily have a stake in each other’s quality of life” (17, 26, 31) . Together, these important works in feminist rhetorical studies help us approach the work of ethos construction in a way that centers the rhetor’s awareness of their subjective, spatial, material interdependence with and accountability to others, and offers listening as a specific practice that might allow us to accomplish that work.  \nI explored this approach within the context of my first year writing seminar“Archiving LBGTQ Lives.” Working with writers in this course became an opportunity to reflect on archival work as a specific context through which we might practice this approach to ethos construction while also considering what it might mean to queer ethos. I locate my discussion here in the example of “Archiving LGBTQ Lives,” in part, because while Ryan, et al.'s concept of the feminist ecological imaginary emphasizes spatial and material relationships,“queering ethos,” as Stacey Waite argues, asks that we also consider our temporal location to others (75). Even before encountering Waite’s work, questions of temporality struck me as particularly important to consider in work with first year writers, many of whom are still coming to an understanding of the presen","cbCaifUf7mcaYY1p","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifUf7mcaYY1p","pdf",165750,"English","# Queering ethos as rhetorical practice\n## Ethos and feminist ecological imaginary\n## Rhetorical listening and accountability logic\n## Queering ethos through temporality and mourning\n## Course-based practice: “Archiving LGBTQ Lives”","[{\"question\":\"How does the essay redefine ethos in rhetorical studies?\",\"answer\":\"It treats ethos as a rhetorical practice grounded in interdependence and accountability, rather than as individual credibility alone. 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