This paper explores promiscuous black feminism by juxtaposing black feminism, Foucualt's poststructuralism, and my grandmother. The tensions created by these juxtapositions illuminate the ways black feminism and poststructuralism are resources and challenges to each other, and how both offer understandings of the relations at play that shape…

Turning to reflexive journals and fieldnotes, the author reconsiders Foucault's "relations of power" through her experiences with five research participants, who are professors of education. The paper explores: (1) the translation of Foucault for an analysis of power; (2) the dynamics of researching up and analyzing from below; and (3) the…

Through the voices of scholars and metalogues, this paper merges the experiences of five professors of education who disrupt the "status quo" with Foucault's scholarship on "practices of the self" and "parrhesia" (the speaking of dangerous truths). The scholars challenge hegemony in education and its effects on students of color and students with…