Teaching Subjectivity, Intersectionality, and Personal Politics with Audre Lorde’s Zami

The Discursive Politics of Feminist Intersectionality

ion of any dimension of comparison is an imperfect but potentially useful conceptual achievement of simplification, not an inherent property of the world. I offer a model of political discourse that is equally dynamic, and use it to illustrate how structurally anchored discursive opportunities in continental Europe differ from the

Teaching Undergraduates About LGBTQ Identities, Families, and Intersectionality: Teaching Undergraduates

Teaching undergraduate students about LGBTQ identities and family issues presents several challenges, or “opportunities,” which we address within personal, ecological, and historical contexts. We begin by articulating our positionality as scholars and instructors, and the feminist intersectional and queer lens that guides our research and pedagogy. We organize our presentation of contemporary t...

Inequality, Intersectionality and the Politics of Discourse: Framing Feminist Alliances

National Politics and Personal Moralities

S ometimes a finding in a survey, while of limited significance by itself, illuminates the encompassing, even debilitating, deficiency of a broader issue. One such finding has it that young Americans expect to have the right to be tried before a jury of their peers, but are quite reluctant to participate in jury duty. This finding illustrates a more general societal imbalance of people who freq...

Teaching Politics, Imagining Evil