title: A genuine article: Intersectionality, Black lesbian gender expression, and the feminist pedagogical project.
abstract: This article examines gender expression as central to the pedagogical projects of Black lesbian feminist pedagogues teaching interdisciplinary material related to race, gender, and sexuality. Participants discuss the ways in which their own masculinity, femme identity, and gendered performances influence instructive practices in the classroom and collegiality on campus. Being a "genuine article" of intersectionality theory plays a role in creative applications of the body as text and the institutional impediments to education as the practice of freedom for pedagogues whose marginalized gender, racial, sexual, and political identities closely align with their subject matter and influence campus roles and relationships.
authors.affiliation: a Goucher College , Baltimore , MD.
authors.forename: Mel Michelle
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D003020:Clothing; D005178:Faculty / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D005783:Gender Identity; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D000072339:Sexual and Gender Minorities / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching
keywords: Pedagogy; gender; lesbian; race; sexuality