Tournament: USC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Various | Judge: Various
The 1AC discusses womyn in debate and the nature of the scholarship that the resolution instructs us to traditionally research for debates.

Tags and citations for cards from the 1AC are as follows:

( ) Womyn are consistently excluded in debate
Board of Directors, December 18, 2013, Women’s Debate Institute, “Our Community Quarterly”, Winter 2014 Vol. 4 Issue 1 AD

"Last week the Dartmouth Forensic Union, ...AND... scrutinize their invitations and consider the advantage of inviting a diverse and successful group of attendees"

( ) The academic approach of females can be distinctly different than that of males.
SCHLEEF., ERIK: Oct 2008 Gender and academic discourse: Global restrictions and local possibilities, Language in Society (37:4), p.515-538. 

"In conclusion, although normative configurations...AND...also on local negotiations of those restrictions when context demands it"

( ) Feminist IR scholarship provides an alternative methodology that enables an epistemology less reliant on gendered power structures
TICKNER professor international relations 2001     (J. Anne, former professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, recently distinguished scholar in residence at the School of International Services, American University, Washington DC. Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era  p.31-32 . Note:  is inserted by me to indicate paragraph breaks)AR USC13

"Critical theory played a central role...AND...strategic action for bringing about an alternative order"

( ) We are able to change practices and norms out of round, by what we do in round. Narratives construct our reality. It is a reality that is a continuous process of becoming, where we the audience and narrator create and mold various elements
Brown 2006 (Andrew D., Professor of Organization Studies at University of Bath, 2006 June, “A Narrative Approach to Collective Identities”, Journal of Management Studies 43:3, June 2006, p. 747-748)

"Predicated on the idea that people are appropriately...AND..contest narratively what is truly distinctive or really enduring about their organization"

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The Role of the Ballot statement concerns which sociological/epistemological methods promote inclusivity in debate. 

Phoebe and Anca endorse the claim that their narrative approach satisfies this ROB.