This article explores how the colonisation of womens bodies, as perpetuated through the art trope of the female nude, has constructed a specific bodily ideal that still resonates and informs how we view women's bodies in contemporary life. I address how the same narratives that restrict our understanding of the female body, also restrict our understanding of drawing. I share part of my PhD practice research: PhEminist Skins of Resistance, a project conducted in my school, which sought to decolonise the legacy of the female nude and support the empowerment of the young women artists who populate the classrooms in which I teach. Theoretically informed by PhEmaterialism (feminist posthumanism and new materialism research methodologies in education), material agency is positioned as vital to an embodied learning experience and situates how I (re)position life drawing as a tool to re-imagined and disrupt heteronormative and raced colonial imaginings of the female body. I further explore how this project created space within the secondary art classroom for creative-activism, and the power of such learning environments to reach out beyond the constraints of neo-liberal educational structures and inspire transformative pedagogies of hope.

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中学艺术课堂中的摩擦和失败：培养希望的非殖民变革教育学

本文探讨了女性身体的殖民化，通过女性裸体的艺术比喻得以延续，如何构建了一种特定的身体理想，这种理想至今仍然引起共鸣，并影响着我们如何看待当代生活中的女性身体。我阐述了限制我们对女性身体理解的相同叙述如何限制我们对绘画的理解。我分享了我的博士实践研究的一部分：PhEminist Skins of Resistance，这是我学校进行的一个项目，旨在使女性裸体的遗产去殖民化，并支持赋予我任教的教室里的年轻女性艺术家权力。从理论上讲，受 PhEmaterialism（女权主义后人类主义和新唯物主义教育研究方法）的启发，物质机构被定位为对具体学习体验至关重要，并将我如何（重新）将写生画定位为重新想象和破坏异性恋和种族殖民的工具对女性身体的想象。我进一步探讨了这个项目如何在中学艺术课堂上为创造性活动创造空间，以及这种学习环境超越新自由主义教育结构的限制并激发希望的变革性教学法的力量。