Editors’ Introduction: Cultural Studies and Intersectionality as Intellectual Practice

Abstract

This article outlines the digital storytelling methods used for a community based research project focused on issues of sexuality among California farmworkers: Sexualidades Campesinas (http://sexualidadescampesinas.ucdavis.edu/). We note how our process of collaboration in the creation and production of digital stories was shaped by the context and our envisioned storytellers. We then offer a critical analysis of our own unique experience with digital storytelling in this project, focusing on a handful of concepts key to understanding the nature of our collaborative production process: community, affect and collaboration, storytelling, performance, and mediation, with an eye to the problem of ethics.

Keywords

• academic
• collaboration
• community
• digital
• ethics
• farm workers
• lgbtq
• mexican
• mexican american
• migrant workers
• rural
• sexual heterodoxy
• storytelling
• work