Interdisciplinarity and Technofeminism: Teaching Fat Activism
This talk will theorize a rhetorical technofeminist pedagogy in the context of interdisciplinary writing-intensive courses across the curriculum. Specifically, this talk will focus on a writing-intensive women's studies special topics course titled “Fat Feminisms: The History of the Body Positivity Movement.” The presentation will discuss the rhetorical technofeminist creation and implementation of the course through both intersectionality and interdisciplinarity through engagement with specific social media platforms that were created and used in the course, including the course's own Tumblr site, Pinterest board, and Instagram account (all popular spaces for body positive activism). This talk will also bring together the speaker's teaching philosophy, focused around the concepts of performativity, transparency, and embodiment and discuss how these tenets were activated in the classroom in rhetorical technofeminist ways.
This talk will theorize a rhetorical technofeminist pedagogy in the context of interdisciplinary writing-intensive courses across the curriculum. Specifically, this talk will focus on a writing-intensive women's studies special topics course titled “Fat Feminisms: The History of the Body Positivity Movement.” The presentation will discuss the rhetorical technofeminist creation and implementation of the course through both intersectionality and interdisciplinarity through engagement with specific social media platforms that were created and used in the course, including the course's own Tumblr site, Pinterest board, and Instagram account (all popular spaces for body positive activism). This talk will also bring together the speaker's teaching philosophy, focused around the concepts of performativity, transparency, and embodiment and discuss how these tenets were activated in the classroom in rhetorical technofeminist ways.
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