#queer pedagogy

[distortionenby]

Queer thesis help!

Hi! My name is Max and I am a queer English pedagogy student (basically studying to become an English teacher). I'm currently doing my major thesis on the impact of queer teachers in queer students' education and need participants for some interviews.

I am currently looking for queer students, queer teachers, and queer people who graduated school either in 2023, 2022 or 2021 willing to participate in a one-on-one semi-structured interview about their perspectives/opinions on how queer teachers in school education can impact queer students' involvement in their learning process.

If you wish to participate you will be sent an Informed Consent Form (a document explaining what the research is about, how the interview will be done and how the information will be used). You will need to sign it and send it back. In the case you are still in school and/or under 18 years old, you will also be sent one for your parent or guardian to sign (if this one is not signed, I cannot allow you to participate if you're a minor).

Everything you say on this interview will be anonymized with a placeholder or pseudonym and the recording of the interview will only be seen by me for transcription purposes.

Feel free to contact me about this, but do state it is for the thesis!

#queer #thesis #pedagogy #queer pedagogy #academics #research #lgbtqia #lgbt education #queer education #signal boost

[wutheringheights78]

officially registered for my first doctoral classes yippee!!

#im taking: evil in literature / a feminist praxis history course / a queer theory course / pedagogy :)

[nando161mando]

Capitalists don't liberate queer people

#facts #lgbtqia+ #queer #class war #rainbow capitalism #neoliberal capitalism #capitalism #fascism #oppression #repression #homeless #poverty #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #anthony albanese #albanese government #eat the fucking rich #eat the rich #oppressor #free all oppressed peoples #pedagogy of the oppressed #oppressive #anti capitalist #capitalist hell #capitalist dystopia

[bethetiesthatbind]

I am torn between a sense of solidarity and devastation that that feeling of existing parallel to places you either used to belong or should belong, is so relatable. People and friends who may want to help but don't know how to, instead disappear back into the familiarity and normativity that is visible to you, but also out of your reach. And you breathe through knowing that they don't know how to help, but more pointedly are too fearful of what that could entail, that might upset their own familiar and norm, to try. Intentions are good, but hope that would inspire innovative action can be all but silent unless you already *know*.

This is not only true in the Church, but in all social circles I have ever experienced, being inside, alongside, or outside.

This is why critical thinking and the kind of liberation theology I have been swallowed into is so incredibly important because when we are so enveloped by Normativity, we are blind not to those who aren't but blind to solutions that could invite them in where we are, we cannot see their obstacles that we've made or perpetuated. We MUST look to the marginalized and we must HEAR them when they spell out what is in the way of connection. They're the only ones who can notice it because of the chasm between our vantage points.

This is why Paulo Freire wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed that demands universal participation in dialogue, but that the salvation from being or becoming oppressors can only lie in the oppressed.

#tw religion #ableism #marginalization #paulo freire #pedagogy of the oppressed #liberation theology #queer theology #kink theology #disability theology #belonging #connection

[penelopeunfiltered]

Sometimes praxis is handing out harm reduction supplies or standing up to that old white person harassing those black kids sitting on the curb.

For trans or disabled people, sometimes just surviving is praxis.

Thriving is better.

...and we need to free palestine!

americans have far more ability to stop american gov&corp than they think

#transgender #chronic disability #disabled #cripple punk #queer cripple #capitalism #cptsd #trauma #oppression #free palestine #free all oppressed peoples #autistic #punk #chronic fatigue #pedagogy of the oppressed

[che-bur-ashka]

have you played queen of the moon

its a ttrpg about queer intimacy and how we survive in a hostile world. it's a hack of sleepaway by jay dragon. go play queen of the moon.

its a pedagogical manifesto. i had to give a presentation about it as part of leaving my teaching job. go play queen of the moon.

its got a bunch of wacky characters. i love the kids in it so much. they literally mean more to me than the world. go play queen of the moon.

#queen of the moon #ttrpgs #sleepaway #belonging outside belonging #queer #gay shit #pedagogy

[hesitationss]

um my internet friend designed a poster for an event that jasbir puar would be speaking at i'm actually kind of star struck I didn't even see the name at my first look at the poster. sorry they're not famous or anything they just wrote terrorist assemblages: homonationalism in queer times and the right to maim: debility, capacity, and disability which i think is necessary theory for the white gays and trans to read they would infinitely less annoying

#I actually think wretched of the earth and pedagogy of the oppressed are 2 theoretical works that can define your political framework but #jasbir puar is a queer theorist so #also maybe they will actually read theory by POC if it's a queer person instead of complaining abt how 'all theory is old white guys' #i've rarely had white men recommended to me 😭 and if they were they were like white-global south...

[arcticdementor]

(link)

#twitter #james lindsay #jordan peterson #screenshots #andrew sullivan #twitter thread #drag pedagogy: the playful practice of queer imagination in early childhood #by harper keenan & lil miss hot mess #curriculum inquiry

[txttletale]

niceys positive anon!! i don't agree with you on everything but you are so clearly like well read and well rounded that you've helped me think through a lot of my own inconsistencies and hypocrises in my own political and social thought, even if i do have slightly different conclusions at times then u (mainly because i believe there's more of a place for idealism and 'mind politics' than u do). anyway this is a preamble to ask if you have recommended reading in the past and if not if you had any recommended reading? there's some obvious like Read Marx but beyond that im always a little lost wading through theory and given you seem well read and i always admire your takes, i wondered about your recs

it's been a while since i've done a big reading list post so--bearing in mind that my specific areas of 'expertise' (i say that in huge quotation marks obvsies i'm just a girlblogger) are imperialism and media studies, here are some books and essays/pamphlets i recommend. the bolded ones are ones that i consider foundational to my politics

BASICS OF MARXISM

friedrich engels, principles of commmunism

friedrich engels, socialism: utopian & scientific

karl marx, the german ideology

karl marx, wage labour & capital

mao zedong, on contradiction

nikolai bukharin, anarchy and scientific communism

rosa luxemburg, reform or revolution?

v.i lenin, left-wing communism: an infantile disorder

v.i. lenin, the state & revolution

v.i. lenin, what is to be done?

IMPERIALISM

aijaz ahmed, iraq, afghanistan, and the imperialism of our time

albert memmi, the colonizer and the colonized

che guevara, on socialism and internationalism (ed. aijaz ahmad)

eduardo galeano, the open veins of latin america

edward said, orientalism

fernando cardoso, dependency and development in latin america

frantz fanon, black skin, white masks

frantz fanon, the wretched of the earth

greg grandin, empire's workshop

kwame nkrumah, neocolonialism, the last stage of imperialism

michael parenti, against empire

naomi klein, the shock doctrine

ruy mauro marini, the dialectics of dependency

v.i. lenin, imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism

vijay prashad, red star over the third world

vincent bevins, the jakarta method

walter rodney, how europe underdeveloped africa

william blum, killing hope

zak cope, divided world divided class

zak cope, the wealth of (some) nations

MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES

antonio gramsci, the prison notebooks

ed. mick gidley, representing others: white views of indigenous peoples

ed. stuart hall, representation: cultural representations and signifying pratices

gilles deleuze & felix guattari, capitalism & schizophrenia

jacques derrida, margins of philosophy

jacques derrida, speech and phenomena

michael parenti, inventing reality

michel foucault, disicipline and punish

michel foucault, the archeology of knowledge

natasha schull, addiction by design

nick snricek, platform capitalism

noam chomsky and edward herman, manufacturing consent

regis tove stella, imagining the other

richard sennett and jonathan cobb, the hidden injuries of class

safiya umoja noble, algoriths of oppression

stuart hall, cultural studies 1983: a theoretical history

theodor adorno and max horkheimer, the culture industry

walter benjamin, the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction

OTHER

angela davis, women, race, and class

anna louise strong, cash and violence in laos and vietnam

anna louise strong, the soviets expected it

anna louise strong, when serfs stood up in tibet

carrie hamilton, sexual revolutions in cuba

chris chitty, sexual hegemony

christian fuchs, theorizing and analysing digital labor

eds. jules joanne gleeson and elle o'rourke, transgender marxism

elaine scarry, the body in pain

jules joanne gleeson, this infamous proposal

michael parenti, blackshirts & reds

paulo freire, pedagogy of the oppressed

peter drucker, warped: gay normality and queer anticapitalism

rosemary hennessy, profit and pleasure

sophie lewis, abolish the family

suzy kim, everyday life in the north korean revolution

walter rodney, the russian revolution: a view from the third world

#ask #avowed inframaterialist reading group #i obviously do not 100% agree with all the points made by and conclusions reached by these works #but i think they are valuable and useful to read

[librarycards]

hello! i apologize in advance this is probably something that you get asked a lot. but do you have any recs on literary magazines to submit to? im a trans poet, ive been writing for over a decade but never shared anything and ive been wanting to try to send my stuff to get it published somewhere. obv ive been google searching but theres so many big and small publications and i was wondering if you have ones you like especially and/or tips on how to choose a magazine/journal to submit to. thanks a lot! <3

no worries, thank you for reaching out!! i've been publishing for like 8 years + an editor for almost 4, so i always appreciate the opportunity to help people new to the world find ethical publications that will treat their work with the care it deserves.

first and foremost: there are going to be pubs out there that are awesome and i don't know about. you may be the one to discover them for yourself! one aid in finding the best mag for your work is the wonderful, writer-created chillsubs. it's a fantastic platform that keeps a huge list of mags and presses and their relevant stats, and lets you create an account and bookmark those you're interested in. everyone i know uses them, and it's very worth it given the sheer volume of mags out there.

i also have some recs of my own, ofc. i'm going to list them below. if they pay (which i prioritize) I'll mark them with a $. some are trans/queer focused and some aren't, but all are pubs i've either edited and/or published with and can confirm their ethics + respect for writers.

manywor(l)ds - my mag! i'm co-founder and eic. break genre _ shapeshift with us. ($)

Sinister Wisdom - old, well-regarded lesbian+ lit mag, now open to everyone who is/loves a dyke. I'm guest-editing an issue on Madness with them, now open for submissions!

fifth wheel press - run by a beloved friend and comrade of mine. i've published here. excellent transparency, care, great for first-timers. ($).

kith books - headed by trans literary icon kat blair. a mag/press/community centered around bodymind non-conformity and noncompliance.

Honey Literary - QTPOC-centered, unabashedly pop-culture + social justice oriented. the vibes are simply immaculate.

Whale Road Review - not queer/trans focused, more oriented toward....'grown up' poetry/prose/pedagogy papers. Katie Manning (eic) is a fucking gem.

Graphic Violence Lit - just had my first experience publishing with them, and their care + consideration for the whole writer is amazing. they publish boundary-pushing work.

beestung - one of the brainchildren of Sarah Clark. nb/gq/2s SFF. I just edited a few guest issues w them and have published with them. amazing work. ($)

A Velvet Giant - genrequeer work. the editors are experienced, enthusiastic, and amazing at promoting writers long after publication. it's a family! ($)

Ethel Zine + Press - handmade with love by Sara Lefsyk (as you can see, trans/nonbinary/2s sarahs dominate indie publishing, as well we should :3). Sara is a sensitive and care-full editor and bookmaker whose every publication is a work of art.

Protean - pro- as in proletariat. awesome left mag with a mix of politics and culture and everything in between. they take reprints! ($)

Mudroom - publish your work along with a picture of your mudroom/shoe rack. very responsive editors who will hype you tf up. ($)

The Institutionalized Review - for psych survivors. the editors concreteness of vision and dedication to their community know no bounds.

Just Femme + Dandy - queer and fashion-focused! led by the inimitable Addie Tsai. They pay *handsomely*. ($)

In addition, there are also some "big" mags I have had excellent experiences publishing with and wanted to shout out. These are harder for a beginner to break into, but worth keeping on your radar + have been fantastic to me as a writer.

Electric Lit

Split Lip Magazine

The Offing

Nat. Brut

Santa Fe Writers' Project

Bodega

New Orleans Review

Augur Magazine

I hope this is helpful to you + others! the literary world is ever-changing and this is just a snapshot. Hopefully you find some that you like!

#ask #anonymous #writing #literary magazines #lit mag #call for submissions

[recomvery]

GET TO KNOW ME

About me

My name is Caroline and I am 28 years old. I live in France with my fiancé Raphael (who is the love of my life) and his family on the countryside. I am currently finishing up a bachelor degree in early childhood and pedagogy at Uni and want to do a Masters in counseling. My biggest dream is to one day be a licensed counselor, have an office at home and my own business counseling people online, which lead me to create this blog and spread positivity and encourage people to be gentle to themselves. My passion is helping people accept and love themselves ♡ My biggest hobby is reading fluffy little romance books (about cowboys) on my kindle and relax at home with my cat Ursa. My favorite tv shows are Gilmore Girls, Jane the virgin, adventure time, and silly dating reality tv shows. I am neurodivergent & queer, I like to draw, film youtube videos, and make friends online.

Fun facts:

- I always wanted to get back into Taylor swift as I loved her as a child but I keep putting it off

- I don't like sad media of any form

- I am scared of Zeppelins and how big the Eifel tower is

- I love stardew valley

- pink roses are my favorite

- I'm literally incapable of doing math

- I like reading children's books

Links

YOUTUBE CHANNEL

#personal

[stargir1z]

theorizing the girlblogger: an abridged bibliography

you can buy my dissertation in print here or read the free pdf here. but here's some texts that were key to my interdisciplinary approach ✿✼:*ﾟ:༅｡.｡༅:*･ﾟﾟ･⭑

books

glitch feminism by legacy russell

pirate philosophy: for a digital posthumanities by gary hall

a tumblr book: platform and cultures by allison mccracken, alexander cho, louisa stein, and indira neill hoch

nomadology: the war machine by gilles deleuze and feliz guattari

papers

cyberfeminism with a difference by rosi braidotti

rethinking the public sphere: a contribution to the critique of actually existing democracy by nancy fraser

utopian plagiarism, hypertextuality, and electronic culture production by the electronic disturbance

what is love? queer subcultures and the political present by virginia solomon

the digital afterlives of this bridge called my back: women of colour feminism, digital labour, and networked pedagogy

memes, videos, artifacts

the electronic labyrinth

monoskop page for cyberfeminism

pirate care syllabus

cyberfeminism index by mindy seu

david karp: why i started tumblr

cyberfeminism as glitch and archive by new(inc)

original hacker manifesto

hole theory by meerschweinchen1993

syllabi by northwindow

thank you so much and enjoy 𓆩ꨄ︎𓆪

#ref #diss #my uploads

[zaagi-studies]

studyblr intro *ੈ✩‧₊˚

🌿 about me *ੈ✩‧₊˚

he/they + two-spirit

21

afro-indigenous [ojibway & ethiopian]

from: treaty 4 territory

currently in: coast salish territory

casual learner of anishinaabemowin [nakawemowin]

🌿 school *ੈ✩‧₊˚

1st year standing in indigenous teacher education [3rd yr overall]

specialization: secondary [high school] history & social studies

my program is kinda weird but it's basically a 5 year dual degree in education + the equivalent of a double major in history & social studies

academic interests: turtle island history, african diasporic identity, indigenous communism, settler-colonialism, philosophy of identity, etc

long-term goal: becoming a history teacher and librarian

🌿 current classes *ੈ✩‧₊˚

teacher practicum

issues in indigenous education

geography of urban indigeneity

feminist anti-racist pedagogies

🌿 other random facts and things *ੈ✩‧₊˚

i'm a director of a queer library and also work at the only indigenous academic library in my country !

i have 3 disabilities

i play bass & electric guitar

i'm in a t4t relationship with a smart biology girly

my favourite music genres are conscious hiphop, alternative metal, and kpop

🌿 my other blogs !! *ੈ✩‧₊˚

@punk-by-the-book ~ main blog (v active)

@rileys-archive ~ writing & photography (not super active)

#studyblr #studyspo #chaotic academia #dark academia #light academia #teacher education #kpop studyblr #black academia #study blog #study inspo #study motivation #autistic studyblr #queer studyblr #college #college studyblr #university #college student #college life #histblr

[familyabolisher]

2022 reading list >:)

fiction:

charlotte brontë, jane eyre

n.k. jemisin, the stone sky

victor hugo, les misérables

susanna clarke, piranesi

james baldwin, giovanni's room

tamsyn muir, gideon the ninth

tamsyn muir, harrow the ninth

emily brontë, wuthering heights

ursula k le guin, the left hand of darkness

oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray

isaac fellman, dead collections

joan lindsay, picnic at hanging rock

shirley jackson, dark tales

gretchen felker-martin, manhunt

herman melville, moby dick

octavia butler, parable of the sower

shola von reinhold, lote

larissa lai, the tiger flu

alison rumfitt, tell me i'm worthless

julia armfield, our wives under the sea

shirley jackson, the haunting of hill house

miguel de cervantes, don quixote

toni morrison, the bluest eye

isaac babel, odessa stories

alexandre dumas, the count of monte cristo

daphne du maurier, rebecca

clark ashton smith, the dark eidolon and other fantasies

rivers solomon, the deep

akwaeke emezi, freshwater

e.m. forster, a room with a view

vladimir nabokov, lolita

ayse papatya bucak, the trojan war museum and other stories

sheridan le fanu, carmilla

e.m. forster, maurice

tamsyn muir, nona the ninth

vladimir nabokov, pale fire

shirley jackson, we have always lived in the castle

jorge luis borges, fictions

henry james, the turn of the screw

tamsyn muir, undercover

ling ma, severance

orhan pamuk, the museum of innocence

shirley jackson, hangsaman

nonfiction:

vijay prashad, no free left: the futures of indian communism

eduardo galeano, open veins of latin america

hakim adi, pan-africanism: a history

paulo freire, pedagogy of the oppressed

a rainbow thread: an anthology of queer jewish texts ed. noam sienna

kwame nkrumah, africa must unite

vijay prashad, red star over the third world

norm finkelstein, the holocaust industry

robin wall kimmerer, braiding sweetgrass

vladimir lenin, the state and revolution

saidiya hartman, wayward lives, beautiful experiments

john aberth, from the brink of the apocalypse

erik butler, metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film

amin maalouf, the crusades through arab eyes

anandi ramamurthy, black star: britain's asian youth movements

christopher chitty, sexual hegemony

shakespearean gothic, ed. christy desmet and anne williams

cervantes' don quixote: a casebook, ed. roberto gonzález echevarria

edward said, culture and imperialism

emily hobson, lavender and red: liberation and solidarity in the gay and lesbian left

audre lorde, zami: a new spelling of my name

ghassan kanafani, on zionist literature

afsaneh najmabadi, women with moustaches and men without beards: gender and sexual anxieties of iranian modernity

jamie berrout, essays against publishing

beverley bryan, stella dadzie, suzanne scafe, heart of the race: black women's lives in britain

jamaica kincaid, a small place

friedrich engels, socialism: utopian and scientific

poetry:

trish salah, lyric sexology

melissa range, scriptorium

wendy trevino, cruel fiction

june jordan, selected poems

#.txt #i skipped a few that were just like. very famous plays or whatever but! #you see what i mean abt how much i need to Read More Poetry :( #also: posts that make you think about the inadequacy of the fiction/nonfiction distinction

[lalalaugenbrot]

15 questions + 15 friends tagged by @nougatbit

1. Are you named after anyone?

i don't think so but as far as i can retrace my name it's greek, somehow ended up in russia and then was made popular outside of russia via doctor zhivago's lara/larissa... (still have to read that!)

2. When was the last time you cried?

I cried from an allergy i have to certain skin cremes last night at the cinema... apart from that i don't remember atm but certainly not long ago

3. Do you have kids?

nope

4. What sports do you play/ have you played?

i did swimming when i was like 14 (i still like swimming a lot but i'm not in a club or anything anymore)

5. Do you use sarcasm?

no :-)

6. What is the first thing you notice about people?

this has always been a weird question to me... their??? face?!?!! (*laughs nervously* wouldn't that always be the first thing to notice about someone???)

7. What's your eye color?

blue

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

a weird opposition. i don't really like horror movies and i prefer the ending a story needs and deserves, so some stories (e.g. a story on two traumatised young men who love and need each other more than anything or anyone else in the world in a mediocre prime time crime show) certainly deserve a happy end, other stories (e.g. a film that displays some severe social grievances) often should not have a happy ending because there isn't one to be expected in reality either... except for sometimes, for example, when it is about two queer men in 1913 Britain, finding and loving each other against all odds and all social norms, written by a gay man in the same era, then of course a happy ending can be imperative even :-)

9. Any talents?

people don't tire to tell me how ~creative i am... and that despite my apparent total lack of (visual, auditory, sensory) imagination 🙃 so there's that

other than that... i think i am good with words and i write since i literally can write and nothing brings me more joy than having written.. writing has been like the most important thing in my life for 26 years now even though it has always been something that happens more like 'in the background' of everything else

10. Where were you born?

in one of the (imo) most village-like "Großstädte" of Germany... if i told you where you'd probably know it because of one specific thing... i've been all the way to other continents and people knew it just because of that

11. What are your hobbies?

most hobbylike things are probably analogue photography, building stuff around the house (shelves etc.) and going to the cinema (or like film in general)

12. Do you have any pets?

no, but i had mice and i miss them... if i had more time and more space to have an adequate place to keep them i'd like to have mice or rats again...

13. How tall are you?

1,73

14. Favorite subject in school?

hm. not sports. i had a 'compulsory optional course' in physics/informatics and i always say it changed my life bc that's where i understood that i like and am good at technical and computer stuff... i also liked pedagogy (nrw superiority), the obligatory history course in 12th grade specifically and in the last years also maths... god do i miss solving math problems 😭😭

15. Dream job?

i wrote this in my friends journal when i was like 10 and it is still true but i think i am a bit past the point where this will ever happen but it's 'director ' (of films)... but that involves networking and other people and putting yourself out there... and uh... i just don't see that happening (i have directed but not in the slightest professionally), the other one of course has always been 'author' and i guess that could still happen... someday in the future maybe... you know, when I'm a grown-up

tagging: @diersten @tiny-steve @sinnsenke @mcfif @black-cat-aoife @silverysnake @free-piza @lachricola

#tag things

[dnaamericaapp]

African American LGBTQ Trailblazers Who Made History

From 1960s civil rights activist Bayard Rustin (featured in the photo) to Chicago's first lesbian mayor, Lori Lightfoot, Black LGBTQ Americans have long made history with innumerable contributions to politics, art, medicine and a host of other fields.

“As long as there have been Black people, there have been Black LGBTQ and same-gender-loving people,” David J. Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, told NBC News. “Racism combined with the forces of stigma, phobia, discrimination and bias associated with gender and sexuality have too often erased the contributions of members of our community."

Stormé DeLarverie was called the "guardian of lesbians in the Village." Beyond her LGBTQ activism, DeLarverie also organized and performed at fundraisers for women who suffered from domestic violence and their children.

James Baldwin is perhaps best known for his 1955 collection of essays, "Notes of a Native Son," and his groundbreaking 1956 novel, "Giovanni's Room," which depicts themes of homosexuality and bisexuality. Baldwin spent a majority of his literary and activist career educating others about Black and queer identity, as he did during his famous lecture titled “Race, Racism, and the Gay Community” at a meeting of the New York chapter of Black and White Men Together (now known as Men of All Colors Together) in 1982.

Audre Lorde, a self-described “Black, lesbian, feminist, mother, poet, warrior," made lasting contributions in the fields of feminist theory, critical race studies and queer theory through her pedagogy and writing. Among her most notable works are “Coal” (1976), “The Black Unicorn” (1978), “The Cancer Journals” (1980) and “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name” (1982).

Ernestine Eckstein was a leader in the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian civil and political rights organization in the United States. She attended "Annual Reminder" picket protests and was frequently one of the only women — and the only Black woman — present at early LGBTQ rights protests.

There are plenty more.

DNA America

“It’s what we know, not what you want us to believe.”