Using Moonlight to Explore Intersectionality in Counselor Education

ABSTRACT

Counselor educators are encouraged to intentionally find ways to foster education that is culturally relevant and anti-oppressive. Films are a vessel for which culturally responsive pedagogy can be enacted. This is especially true in the realm of intersectionality. The case for using the film Moonlight is presented to explore the interlocking systems of oppression that affect communities and persons of color every day, and how counselors can incorporate this particular film into counselor training.

KEYWORDS:

• Diversity/Multicultural
• counselor education
• intersectionality
• film
• creativity in counseling