"Transferring Intersectional and Performative Responses"

Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Amber Johnson and Toniesha Taylor modified this activity from one created by Robert Gutierrez-Perez. Guiterrez-Perez’s original activity used music and focused on themes and terms around marriage equality. Johnson and Taylor expanded the activity to include video, to use hashtags, and to cover themes and terms used to discuss race, class, gender and sexuality. Johnson and Taylor adapted the original activity as a creative interactive performance delivered at the Western States Communication Association Conference. Since then they have each adapted the activity for various communication classrooms. This activity allows professors to engage in mediated representations of intersectional identities. Moreover students are able to discuss the ways in which they understand social justice actions through identity matrixes. When delivered in classrooms, this activity can be used to start conversations