Using Ethnography to Dissolve the Stickiness of Contingency: An Intersectional Feminist Exploration of Being Stuck in Contingency

This feminist ethnographic piece offers a snapshot of how contingency impacts diversity work in General Education (GE) courses the Communication Studies Department at California State University, Northridge. After grounding my critical university scholarship from Sara Ahmed (2012), Roderick Ferguson and others, I explore pressure to do contingent faculty various identities department. To this end, take an intersectional approach understanding these experiences hopes showing parts one's identity might make certain topics more difficult teach than especially through precarity.