Books

How to Decolonize the Feminist and Queer Studies Classroom edited by Atia Sattar, np press 2025.

How to Decolonize the Feminist and Queer Studies Classroom offers educators accessible theoretical frameworks and practical tools to engage and implement decolonial pedagogies in the feminist and queer studies classroom. While recent research on decolonizing pedagogy largely contextualizes and theorizes the need for such work, this volume moves from theory to practice by centering the words, experiences, and efforts of BIPOC bodies in university spaces. It highlights the voices of BIPOC teacher-scholars of feminist and queer studies as they (1) recount lived experiences of theorizing, facilitating, and occupying the classroom as a site of decolonial thought and praxis and (2) share successful pedagogical practices and materials that promote decolonization. The feminist and queer studies classroom is defined broadly, encompassing both classes in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies departments along with those in other disciplines that utilize the inquiries and practices of feminist and queer work.