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In this autobiographical essay, I study the ways in which becoming a classroom teacher illuminated the school-based gender socialization that had shaped my contested understanding of myself as a girl and woman. Leaning on the work of queer theorists both within and outside of fields explicitly marked as “pedagogical,” I examine the notion of the “hidden curriculum” of gender as made manifest in my first years teaching middle school English, and the transformative capacity within my students—and the learning spaces I shared with them—to deconstruct, play with, and disrupt, if not unlearn, the gender “scripts” that had bound us to the failing coda of identification linked to larger systems of oppression which the institution of school reifies. Tracing my developing self-identification as a lesbian alongside my years of feeling “just outside” of the archetype of the professional woman teacher, I explore the possibilities for the secondary classroom to playfully and rigorously trouble normative modes of categorization and identification, broadening our understanding of who school “works” for.
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This paper offers insights into how the teaching of queer topics in English language arts classes can be reframed by bridging the goals, practices and conceptual tools of queer theory to literacy teaching. Drawing on an ethnographic classroom study, which explored a 13-week high school Gay and Lesbian Literature course, this paper discusses how teaching an English literature curriculum centred on the voices and stories of LGBTQI people constitutes a meaningful site for learning and teaching. In the process, I show how a queer-themed literature curriculum not only intervenes disruptively into the heteronormative space of school through its content but also through pedagogical practices that open up new lines of thinking for understanding diverse sexualities and genders. Through vignettes from the classroom, I illustrate how queer moments were enacted in this high school course as the class (a) deconstructed literary and media texts; (b) used moments of discomfort for learning; (c) produced counter-narratives through creative acts; and (d) engaged in experiential learning activities that troubled commonsense understandings of sexuality, sex and gender. The paper aims to provide educators and administrators with ideas on how a comprehensive queer-inclusive English literature curriculum can be implemented in high schools.
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« Le but de cette publication est d’offrir un guide succinct visant à initier aux modes de féminisation. Il vise surtout à encourager les pratiques de féminisation au quotidien, autant dans les activités courantes que dans la vie académique. Il vise également à étendre les pratiques de féminisation au-delà des milieux militants et féministes, en proposant une pluralité de modes de féminisation qui puissent convenir aux plus de contextes possible. Finalement, il propose aux personnes intéressées des guides et des ressources pertinentes pour approfondir le sujet. » (2014, 1) ***