Queer voices from the classroom / edited by Hidehiro Endo and Paul Chamness Miller (Akita International University).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Endo, Hidehiro, 1971- editor.

Iida, Paul Chamness, editor.

Series:

Research in Queer Studies

Research in queer studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay teachers--United States.

Gay teachers.

Homosexuality and education.

Gay people--Identity.

Gay people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing Inc., [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This inaugural volume of the new book series, Research in Queer Studies is a collection of memoirs or short narrative essays in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer PK-12 teachers and/or administrators (either "out" or "not out") recount their personal experiences as a queer teachers. The authors of these stores write about significant experiences that describe how their sexual identity has shaped who they are today as teachers/administrators, by answering the following questions: * In light of your sexual identity, how did you become who you are today? * Why did you decide to become a teacher? What role did your sexual identity play in that decision? * What kinds of significant moments, including queer issues (e.g., bullying) regarding students and/or yourself, have you experience in your teaching? * In light of who you are as an individual, what do you hope to achieve and become as a queer teacher in the future?

Contents:

Introduction / Hidehiro Endo and Paul Chamness Miller

Section i. Teacher and queer identities

Chapter 1. Memoir of a teacher / Jonathan Shiller

Chapter 2. Are you married? Ryan

Chapter 3. Gaying up the teacher: From ungay teaching to a gay curriculum / Arthur T. Costigan

Chapter 4. Queer teacher: A portrait of masking / Robert Durocher

Chapter 5. What kind of teacher are you? / Hilary Lustick

Chapter 6. Now, we're going to make a family tree: My journey out of the closet / Sarah Moon

Chapter 7. The politics of who i am now / Bianca D'Allesandro

Section ii. Celebrating diversity, accepting differences

Chapter 8. Embracing visibility / Rebecca Mui

Chapter 9. Shame / Jonah Frank

Chapter 10. Oil, water, and masculinity: A story of a gender nonconformist in texas / Michael A. Thorson, Jr

Chapter 11. This time as mr. Berkley / Sam Berkley

Chapter 12. The right path is not always straight / Michelle Lee

Section iii. Hear me out: Being proud of who i am

Chapter 13. One of these teachers is not like the other / Jennifer Rosenbaum

Chapter 14. Looking, learning, longing: Queer e/affects of images / Bob Phillips

Chapter 15. Sensitivity / Tonya Jarrell

Chapter 16. Moments of truth / Emily

Chapter 17. Student, educator, mother, and advocate / Becky L. Bridgman

Chapter 18. The calm after the storm / Jos ̌A. Garca̕

Chapter 19. Kaleidoscopic musings on a queer praxis / Adrian D. Martin

Section iv. Out advocate for the LGBTQ community

Chapter 20. Make a difference, change a life / Maree A. Bednar

Chapter 21. By any other name: From silence to selfhood / Karen Zaino

Chapter 22. The fighter / Terence P. Friedrichs

Chapter 23. From finding myself to founding alliance / Tina Owen

About the authors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-62396-474-1