Dr. Fischer recently published a pedagogy article on “Trans of Color Histories, Visibility, and Violence in The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” in Films for the Feminist Classroom (Issue 12.2, Summer 2024). Reflecting on teaching her upper-level seminar COMM/WGST 4660/5660 Queer Media Studies here at CU Denver, Dr. Fischer’s article offers educators a lesson plan for using David France’s documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017) as a teaching tool for discussing the erasure of queer and trans people of color’s contributions to LGBTQ+ history, the politics of trans visibility, and the violence that such visibility often engenders. Films for the Feminist Classroom (FFC), hosted by Texas Woman’s University, is an online, open-access journal that publishes film reviews which explore the value of films as pedagogical tools in the feminist classroom. The article is available to read here.
