Would Clarke ever guest lecture in Lexa's class? I forget what she teaches, but if it's "queering American literature" then maybe it's one of the last lectures as a break out into other forms of media that have been "queered", like adult movies... Clarke talks about general themes and doesn't talk about her movies and doesn't mention she used to be an actress, but obviously everyone looks her up and the next day Lexa's students cannot believe their nerdy prof is married to a porn star
Lol, I like this! However, there’s an existing headcanon that goes:
Sometime after Lexa unintentionally projects her laptop wallpaper background of Clarke during her first class, the students do some sleuthing and discover Prof Hot Stuff’s wife is an ex-porn star. They’d already been concocting sordid stories in their heads about their Assistant Professor and her smoking hot wife but, when they learn about Clarke’s former career, it reaches a whole other level—culminating in fan art and ‘Fifty Shades of Tweed’, an RPF fanfic the students start collectively writing on the HotBust tumblr blog.
(Readers of DWBYG being that extra, someone did actually create a spoof blog. I promise, it wasn’t me.)
Clarke doesn’t make an appearance at one of Lexa’s classes—in any sort of teaching capacity, anyway—but she does get invited to give a guest lecture by one of Lexa’s colleagues when, at a Department of Feminist and Gender Studies soirée at Indra’s house, Clarke gets recognised by Dr Tsing. She teaches a class on ‘Pornography: Through a Feminist Lens’ and is familiar with Kassie Skai’s oeuvre, since her movies are considered good examples of feminist-friendly porn, and Dr Tsing thinks her students would gain tremendous insight from Clarke’s firsthand account of her experiences within the industry. The guest lecture is so over-subscribed that Indra has to organise a much larger venue to accommodate the numbers.