Liberatory Pedagogies: Understanding Holistic Approaches to Sexuality in Educational Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The Annual Meeting’s focus on equitable educational renewal prompts us to ask, “What’s happening?” or “What is possible?” To address these questions, this session explores holistic approaches to sexuality in educational research to create more equitable experiences for teachers and minoritized youth. Such approaches conceptualize sexuality beyond sexual health, sexual orientation, and deficit-centered aims disguised as educational transformation, helps students and teachers make sense of their lives and communities. Given the current U.S. political climate and debates marked by anti-Queer and anti-DEI rhetoric, this session uses intersectional and queer analyses to reveal inequities in schooling practices, reviews the impact of teacher and student experiences and considers the potential for liberatory pedagogies and the advancement of sexuality studies in education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Queer Studies

Chair

• Monique Y. Perry, University of Pennsylvania

Papers

• Teacher Negotiation(s) of Sexuality Education: A Queer of Color Analysis in Urban Middle Schools - Monique Y. Perry, University of Pennsylvania

• “You Don't have to take Anyone's Bullshit when it comes to Sex.”: How Access to Feminist and Queer Sex Education Shapes Latinas’ Subjectivities - Michelle Gomez Parra, San Francisco State University

• “You see it in me”: Quare Pedagogy, Place, and Being - Lindsey Allen, University of Maryland

• ‘O Possibility/hum through’: Researcher Reflexivity in Critical Ethnography with Black Queer Girls and Femmes - monét cooper, University of Michigan

Discussant

• Ed Brockenbrough, University of Pennsylvania