on Feminism + pedagogy

I write essays to contribute to feminist literary traditions, interrogate educational practice, and imagine alternative institutional futures

My feminist essay writing practice is steeped in women of color feminisms and particularly Black feminisms. I am inspired by Black feminists like bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Michelle Wallace, and others. Wallace writes in her book Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, “The imperative is clear: either we will make history or remain victims of it.” My feminist writing practice heeds Wallace’s call to make history.

As an educator, I think a lot about the dialectic between teaching and learning. In my pedagogy writing, I explore ideas about my classroom as a site to engage in an “undercommons”(Harney & Moten, 2013) study of leadership and civic engagement that goes against conventional notions and provides an alternative and collective vision for the leadership and civic engagement that we need in increasingly polarized political and organizational contexts.