Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Gender & Sexuality

  • Our Bodies, Our Politics

  • Sex Education Policy and Activism

  • Pleasure in the Classroom - Sex Education in Action

  • Making Sex

Syd’s teaching style is one that prioritizes a student-centered approach. She encourages student ownership of knowledge and expertise that relates to the subjects being taught. She believes in fostering critical-thinking skills through texts and thoughtful assignments that push students beyond their comfort zones.

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“As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”
— bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom