Reading (to) the Children: Drag Pedagogy and Queer Imagination at School

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

This virtual session provides a rare and unique opportunity to bring together queer and trans community leaders community with queer and trans education scholars and practitioners. The primary objectives of the session are 1.) to model a demonstration of performance pedagogies by educators from Drag Queen Story Hour and Queens of the Castro, and 2.) to briefly contextualize this genre of queer pedagogy within the emergent theoretical framework of "drag pedagogy." Bringing performances by educators from these organizations together with education scholars provides a unique opportunity for institutional collaboration with LGBT stakeholders, as well as the rare opportunity to witness drag pedagogy in action at a major conference in educational research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Queer Studies

Chair

• Harper Benjamin Keenan, University of British Columbia

Papers

• Drag Pedagogy: Inviting Queer Performance Into the Classroom - Harper Benjamin Keenan, University of British Columbia; Harris Kornstein, New York University

• Drag Queen Story Hour: Imagining Queer Futures in Early Childhood - Harris Kornstein, New York University

• Queens of the Castro: Serving LGBT Youth in San Francisco High Schools - Taica Hsu, Mission High School