Towards a Bad Bitches' Pedagogy. (14th October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ali, Khalilah
• Is Part Of: Journal of intersectionality. Volume 5:Number 1(2021)
• Page Start: 41
• Page End: 52
• Publication Date: 2022-10-14
• Subjects: Black feminist pedagogy -- narrative approach -- Black education -- Black parents -- Black teachers -- educational philosophy -- cultural work -- teacher identity -- counterstory -- hip hop pedagogy; 305
• DOI: 10.13169/jinte.5.1.0005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2515-2122

Abstract

Abstract : In this paper, I present a personal narrative approach, grounded in Connelly and Clandinin's ontological and epistemological stance that "humans are story-telling organisms"1 to discuss my construction of a uniquely working class Black feminist educator identity. This narrative inquiry is an adapted counter-methodological researcher approach that was born out of an interlinkage of my explorations into the histories of Black women educators, hip hop feminisms, and Higginbotham's respectability politics, 2 as it is understood in popular cultural terrain, and as the concept contrasts with and complements notions of (dis)respectability. I situate the paper within a critical hip hop feminist framework and access raunch aesthetics' use of the sartorial and performative bad-assedness to understand how I have come to craft a transgressive teacher identity. By embracing a vernacular transgressive archetype of the bad bitch pedagogue, I analyze and complicate my own intersectional identity as a working-class Black woman who navigated an adversarial bourgeoisie traditionalist educational system as a teacher, unwed custodial parent, cultural worker and advocate for Black youth.