Rural K-12 Educators and Racially Diverse Queer Epistemic Justice in the U.S.

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 9:00 am Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: K-12 Education at the Intersection of Queerness and Race (Table 5)

Abstract

Books by and/or about LGBTQ+ people and People of Color are under attack across the United States. These attacks on books are a form of epistemic injustice (Fricker 2007) because by determining whose stories get to be told and by whom, book bans communicate whose knowledge matters and who gets to be a knower. However, rather than focus on the “redaction, restriction, relocation, and removal” of books (Knox 2023, p. 6), the purpose of our study is to explore efforts in schools to repair harms caused by exclusionary curriculum. As such, we focus our attention on educators’ engagement with an education initiative that sends books written by and/or about LGTBQ+ people and People of Color to educators in K-12 schools.

Authors

• Madelaine Adelman, Arizona State University

• Courtney Langerud, Arizona State University

• Daniel D. Liou, Arizona State University