Acting Out: Resisting Policed Performances of Gender
Acting Out: Resisting Policed Performances of Gender
In this lesson, students will gain a nuanced understanding of gender as a policed performance as well as the fight toward queer liberation through police abolition by reading, analyzing, comparing, and corroborating a number of foundational texts and commentary sources.
The standards covered in this lesson are: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11- 12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.7
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This Lesson Plan Kit Includes:
One (1) slide deck presentation entitled "Acting Out: Resisting Policed Performances of Gender"
An accompanying text for students
Two (2) student worksheets: There Is No Queer Liberation Without Prison Abolition - Discussion Questions and Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth Worksheet
A Kahoot quiz for content review
Three (3) student readings
Op-Ed: There Is No Queer Liberation Without Prison Abolition by Gem Nwanne
Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth by Elizabeth A. Armstrong & Suzanna M. Crage
THE FIRST PRIDE WAS A RIOT: How Queer Activism Has Partnered with Police to Hurt the Community’s Most Vulnerable by Delaney Nevius
Educator Note: This multi-day lesson will be guided primarily by a slide deck presentation and guiding literature that should be provided to each student. The guiding literature can be used as a study material.
Lesson plan created by Endiya Griffin