By Riyad A. Shahjahan Why do we write what we write? This question kept tugging at the back of my mind when I sat down to draft a piece about how I use popular culture in the classroom. At first, I thought I was simply documenting my teaching strategies—something practical, maybe even replicable. But as the words unfolded, I realized: I wasn’t just writing about pedagogy. I was writing through it—using reflexivity to ask deeper…
