Crossing the Road, or What's a Nice Lesbian Feminist Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

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  • Barbara DiBernard Teaches women's literature, Director of the Women's Studies Program, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

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This narrativefollows the author's journey in teaching Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues and teaching about the death of Brandon Teena, a person born biologically female but who lived a chosen male identity and who was murdered in Nebraska for that choice. Through reading, class discussion, student journals, and especially events such as the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, speeches by transgender activists, and a rally in support of Brandon Teena, the author moves in her teaching from "add transgender and stir" to a conceptual framework which affects the way she sees everything. Her teaching transforms her.Copyright of Reflections:Narratives of Professional Helping is the property of Cleveland StateUniversity and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites orposted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission.However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.

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Barbara DiBernard, Teaches women's literature, Director of the Women's Studies Program, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

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DiBernard, B. (2014). Crossing the Road, or What’s a Nice Lesbian Feminist Like You Doing in a Place Like This?. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 4(1), 39–48. Retrieved from https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/544

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