Queer-Inhumanisms: Unsettling the Legacies of "Man" Across the Curriculum

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 4

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The papers on this panel highlight theoretical and empirical attempts to unsettle and inject ‘queer inhumanisms’ into the legacies of what Syliva Wynter calls ‘Man,’ across the curriculum. ‘Man’ refers to the white-cis-hetero-enabled-male version of the human who upholds coloniality through his dominant position, and against which all others are calibrated and measured. The logic of ‘Man’ continues to subject, punish, and exclude educative practices and people unable to fit in its social mode. In an era of increased violence against queer, trans, dis/abled, Black, Indigenous, and people of colour – papers on this panel demonstrate how queer inhumanisms might disrupt the logic of Man, and the logic of inclusion across the curriculum, and ‘world’ a more just future.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 3: Methodologies, Cosmologies, and Philosophies (The Shaping of Curriculum)

Chair

• David Ben Shannon, Manchester Metropolitan University

Papers

• Queering the "Affective Ordinariness of Whiteness" in English Literary Curriculums - Sarah E. Truman, University of Melbourne

• Wording (In)Human Worlds: Gender-Nonconforming Youth and the Necessary Illegibility of Language - LJ Slovin, The University of British Columbia

• Inhuman Literacies - Aparna Rita Mishra Tarc, York University

• Affirming Neuro-Queer Rhetorics in Early Childhood Education - David Ben Shannon, Manchester Metropolitan University

Discussant

• Kate Heron Pahl, Manchester Metropolitan University