Teaching to transgress

I was so happy to pick this up when I did… this semester, I’m co-teaching a class that embraces the methods hooks illustrates here, and I didn’t necessarily have her perspective in mind as I’ve approached it. It was good to both hear that we’re on the right track with what we’re doing, and to have suggestions for how to keep learning & growing and avoiding a disaster in this classroom. Anyway. Definitely looking into Strangers in Paradise next, mentioned a few times here, a book about clear difference in academia.

I don’t know why I didn’t read this when it came out, smack in the middle of my grad student career and learning to teach. But now, almost three decades later, it’s both familiar and utterly destabilizing. hooks's ideas are so intertwined with how progressive teaching is today that a lot of this doesn’t feel groundbreaking the way it was. But she is so smart and eye-opening on how she talks about the intersections between gender, race, class, and the classroom and teachers and students—it’s inspiring.