ABSTRACT
This chapter is about how minor gestures in the act of literacy teaching and learning generate relational transformations that produce difference. It explores how to feel for the potential for such difference in the event of its happening and how to feel forward toward actualizing potential difference. The chapter also explores how teaching and learning in the major key tends towards sameness and towards muffling minoritarian potentials for change. English language arts is one of those subjects that often, and at instruction’s best, creates spaces for learners and teachers to be real, raw, and willing to grapple with their realities of life through discussion, writing, and performance. Minor gestures move and change because they are choiceless with the systems they disrupt. Teaching and learning that makes a difference is never a choice. English language arts explores human existence, perspective, and the power in sharing stories.
