By Hanna Cox
At LCC, we talk a lot about “creative disruption.” But I’ve come to realise that some of the most powerful acts of disruption don’t happen on a stage — they happen in the quiet corners of our campuses: in hallway conversations, shared documents, mentoring calls and WhatsApp chats with students trying to stay afloat.
As a LCC Changemaker, my work isn’t about heroic gestures. It’s about making systems less hostile, less confusing, less exclusive — especially for racialised students navigating a world that rarely gives them space to rest, let alone thrive.
Inspired by Kevin J Brazant’s framework of “Disrupting the Discourse,” I’ve started to ask different questions:
- Who gets left out of the curriculum?
- Whose discomfort is protected in the classroom?
- What does true co-creation look like in a university still shaped by hierarchy?
These aren’t rhetorical questions. They’re real tensions I hold daily — and it’s in the holding of those tensions that real changemaking begins.