On Being A Host… …On Being A Guest:

A Zine About Hospitality in University Classrooms

Being a good host begins before a guest enters the room. This zine outlines a set of best practices for hosting guests, informed by my experiences of inviting scholars, writers and community organizers into my university classroom and being asked to lecture for free as a graduate student. At the heart of these practices is valuing guests’ labour and building reciprocal relationships.

Cover art by Naz Rahbar. Created with funds generously provided by an IDEAS Grant via the MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation, and Excellence in Teaching and the Equity and Inclusion Office at McMaster University.

An abridged version of this zine was published in University Affairs in June 2021. For an accessible text-only version of this zine, click here.