Passionate Pedagogy: Resistance and Hope of a Black Feminist Lesbian Activist Scholar Angela Bowen

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

“If we are not out… visibly as Black Lesbians…young Black college students will not be able to locate us. They need to… look us in the eyes and have us honestly say who we are.” As the first Black out lesbian professor at California State University, who received tenure without promotion, Dr. Angela Bowen lived by these words she wrote in 1996. As co-founder of the Bowen-Peters School of Dance, where she taught for 19 years to a professor at CSU, we will examine academia then and now, and explore the struggles Black Lesbians, Feminists and women face in institutions.

Sub Unit

• General Conference / Special Sub-Theme: Pedagogies of Resistance and Hope: Teaching to Transgress

Moderator

• Chadra Pittman, University of Alabama Birmingham

Presenters

• Jennifer Abod, PhD

• Chadra Pittman, University of Alabama Birmingham

• Chadra Pittman, University of Alabama Birmingham

• jennifer abod, independent scholar, poet, filmmaker, lounge singer