Queer voices from the classroom

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 experienc...

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Other Authors Endo, Hidehiro, 1971- (Editor), Miller, Paul Chamness (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., [2014]
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806613175
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-474-0
Physical Description1 online resource (ix, 209 pages)

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Table of 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.