Underneath the black feathers: Creatively unboXing the more-than of gender identity

This chapter is inspired by arts-informed approaches to posthuman, feminist new materialist theory-doings in educational research. It maps moments in a post-qualitative research project that set out to experiment with what else relationships and sexuality education might become with ‘art-as-way’. Progressively supported by an artist-in-residence teacher, composer and filmmaker, we open up what unfolds when a diverse group of 11 young people (age 13–14) creatively make a living curriculum of what matters in an art classroom. We conceptualise what comes to matter as ‘dartaphacts’ (arts-activist objects) and follow one of these other-worldly posthuman pARTicipants, titled “Underneath the black feathers” as they open up the ‘more-than’ of gender identity, beyond the art classroom and into policy and practice.