Lesson Plan—Organizing Resilience: Reviving Militancy
In recognizing the dire need for militant movements in the communities I belong to, and the countless ones taking place around the globe in this historic moment, I’ve been thinking […]
Category Archives: Curriculum
Lesson Plan – Vogue and Femme Power
This is a brief lesson plan for a workshop focusing on voguing, femme power and feminism through movement. In keeping with other vogue studies lesson plans that have appeared here, […]
Lesson Plan – Vogue and Abolition: Understanding the Prison Industrial Complex Through the Ballroom Scene
This lesson is part of a larger vogue studies curriculum, a unit aimed at teaching ballroom scene history to the ballroom scene, other queer people of color, and our allies. […]
Lesson Plan – History Is a Weapon: Introducing the Social Studies
Many of the educators I’ve been working with this semester have been challenging me to think more critically about the expectations and requirements placed on teachers in public classrooms. They […]
Taking Inventory: The End of a Year Teaching at My Old Elementary School
I returned to live at home this year for many of the same reasons that so many of my post-grad peers did the same, and was looking for education related […]
Lesson Plan – Nothing About Us Without Us: Introducing Disabilities Studies
1. Freewrite: At the start of the lesson, the statement “Nothing About Us Without Us” is written up on the board. Ask students to take five minutes and write a […]
Lesson Plan – En la lucha: Learning as Struggle
This is a multilingual lesson plan for a class towards the beginning of a new year or semester. By introducing the three Spanish terms, ‘la gente,’ ‘el pueblo,’ and ‘la […]
No [Marginalized] History Month: Ethnic Studies All the Time!
Black History Month was never something which resonated with me as a student. As a young Black person, it was impossible for me to imagine that there could ever be […]
Returning to the Root: Reflection and Collective Learning
“We must ask ourselves, ‘What is it that we are trying to do, and are we doing it as effectively as we can?’ For the answers to these questions are […]
Lesson Plan – Introducing Radical Feminism and Making Feminist Critiques*
1. Freewrite: At the start of the lesson, the symbol for radical feminism (a fist inside the female sign) will be drawn up on the board. Ask students to take […]
Radical Faggot 