Glenn Ligon is a multifaceted artist working across multiple media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, and digital media. He is a conceptual artist, often working to include text with visuals and as visuals in his work. He appropriates text from classic authors, like Homer, from runaway slave broadsides, from Richard Pryor jokes, and from a cadre of more contemporary African American writers. Ligon's artworks and career explores his handling of the interrelated issues of race, gender, sexuality, politics, economics, ethnicity, age, and power relation produced through visual culture, and how such artworks could be used to introduce sexual subjects in school. This paper presents some of his artworks. (Contains 4 figures and 1 note.)