major. i have been teaching english for 15 years, but the reason why that woman s study course is very successful is because i don t just teach literature. i teach literature, history, activism, media, blogging, art history, all of those different disciplines are coming together, converging for students to make connections in very innovative, creative, collaborative ways, for example, the tech person who might question why are you teaching feminism. i teach media and blogging. i ask them to look at issues of sexism, racism, homophobia in the media. what is the way we can use the lens of feminism, which for me is intersectional feminism, looking at all of the different ways in which real issues that students face every single day can be understood through that lens. yet i can feel like i hear the 140 characters around me saying, i m sorry, my kid needs to learn to read. we have to pass those