She lectured on her work and on subjects including human sexuality, gender, transsexuality, censorship, ethics, and pornography.

After graduating she moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, and while teaching disadvantaged children DeGenevieve discovered her love for photography.

This led DeGenevieve into controversy, particularly during the National Endowment for the Arts funding scandals of the early 1990s, when she, Andres Serrano, and Merry Alpern were stripped of their grants from the NEA in 1994.

[4] DeGenevieve established an interdisciplinary and new media arts program at SAIC that instructed students on constructing sexually graphic artworks.

[citation needed] Her critical and artistic works have been published in Exposure, SF Camerawork Magazine, and P-Form.

DeGenevieve would find her subjects on the streets and discuss with them if they were willing to be photographed nude for 100 dollars, food and a hotel room for the night.

This symposium allowed for students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to give their thoughts on the photo and video series.