Student Work

I believe in the potential of creative pedagogies for promoting learning in the university classroom. The topics of gender, sexuality, race, class, and power explored in Gender, Sexuality, Women's and Ethnic Studies courses can often be challenging for students to process. Many of the BIPOC queer, women, trans and gender non-confirming students who gravitate toward these fields also live the scholarship, and at times there are no mechanisms for working through the feelings that may come up for them throughout the run of the course. My students have found ways to produce their own knowledge and engage productively with the flux and contradiction that attends processes of gendering and sexual racialization through creative projects. These pedagogies also have the potential to promote healing and consciousness raising, as we use zines, exhibitions, and blogs to extend our dialogues beyond academic spaces.