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“The Pleasures of Pedagogy”

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
noon–1:00 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
“The Pleasures of Pedagogy”
Ariane Cruz

This project examines the intersections between pleasure and racial sexual pedagogies for Black women at three twenty-first-century contemporary American pop culture sites: sex toys and their commerce, pedagogic pornography, and podcasts. I analyze these discursive popular media sites as pleasure pedagogies, unveiling their operation as modes of recreational pedagogy that provide knowledge about, and ultimately aid in the construction of sexuality, race, and gender at the same time that they produce and educate about pleasure. Here I focus on a group of contemporary (2015–to the present) Black women’s sexuality podcasts to examine how these erotic podcasts—many of which focus explicitly on topics of sexual pleasure—concurrently educate about pleasure, sexuality, race, and gender.

124 Sparks Building

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