Collective, Anecdotal and Generative Refusal: A Queer-Feminist Pedagogy of the Unknown

This chapter considers what kind of affective response to hyper-masculine bigotry could be useful within a pedagogical context. Beginning from the authors’ repeated interest in the aftermath of a failed extracurricular activity– and via Sara Ahmed’s thinking on emotion as sticky, relational and bodily– the authors re-work traditional structures of power and feeling to reach toward something generative out of conflict and difficulty. The authors’ creative-critical framework works through a collective and anecdotal dialogue in order to arrive at a queer feminist mode of refusal as a pedagogical alternative. Ultimately the discussion presented here seeks to complicate and restructure dialogic hierarchies rather than reproduce them.