This collection edited by Daniel S. Strasser was unearthed from the demand for more inclusive and expansive dialogues on intersectional identities ethnicity neurodiversity physical ability religion sexual orientation class and gender performance in academia. The autoethnographic and narrative accounts within Communication and Identity in the Classroom Intersectional Perspectives of Critical Pedagogy offer personal experiential perspectives on the power of identity to influence educators in classroom and mentoring spaces. The multiple perspectives offered here promote dialogue about how personal experience provides the ground upon which we build more dynamic relationships and communities. The contributorsamprsquo experiences offer examples for a more expansive understanding of privilege oppression and identity. These seeds for conversation nourish discourses that build new communicative bridges between educators and students as we prepare to face the next interaction class and challenges and opportunity for resilience. This collection invites educators to be critical of their bodies of their politics of their intersecting identities and acknowledge in words and actions that our bodies are political. Throughout this collection the contributors expand upon theories and methods of critical communication scholarship radical love and intersectionality using their embodied pedagogical experiences to ground the scholarship.