Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Feb 2018 Open Access

Understanding Intersectional Resistance Practices in Online Spaces: A Pedagogical Framework

Lehua Ledbetter

Abstract

This paper presents some of the difficulties and challenges that a writing instructor faced when integrating themes of race, gender, and sexuality into her pedagogy, as well as strategies that she developed to address those challenges. The author discusses the merits of building a pedagogy from what Alcoff (2000) refers to as “social location,” despite evidence that women in academia are already subject to gender bias in the classroom. Finally, the author presents a feminist writing pedagogy developed from her research on YouTube’s beauty community, a diverse community that includes many women of color entrepreneurs, in which she asks students to use their experiences, rhetorical knowledges, and feminist theories to question the nexus of professionalism and identity. A sample assignment is included.

Journal
Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
Published
2018-02-01
DOI
10.59236/rjv17i3pp37-56
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rhetorical criticism writing pedagogy social media gender and writing
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