The Troublemaker Project: Local Activism for Inclusive and Socially Just Education

• In Event: (Re)Imagining Possibilities: Working to Create Change

Abstract

The Troublemaker Project is a collaborative, school-based, local-knowledge making initiative between high school students, general and special education teachers, guidance counselors, education faculty, and dis/ability liberation activists. Informed by Shalaby’s (2017) work on teaching love and learning freedom, this student-led alliance promotes intersectional perspectives on dis/ability by confronting how gendered and racialized labels of motivation, intelligence, and behavior are assigned in schools.

Authors

• Lauren Shallish, Rutgers University - Newark

• David Bwire, The College of New Jersey

• Anne Peel, The College of New Jersey