"Is it good or bad to do anal?": Failures in queer joy and sexuality education.
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| Title: | "Is it good or bad to do anal?": Failures in queer joy and sexuality education. |
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| Authors: | Burkholder, Casey1 (AUTHOR) casey.burkholder@concordia.ca, Keehn, Melissa2 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy. Mar2026, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p68-94. 27p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Sex education, *Psychology of teachers, *Classrooms, *Education methodology, LGBTQ+ identity, Community-based participatory research, Attitudes toward sex |
| Geographic Terms: | Canada |
| Abstract: | Where does queer joy fail in the sexuality education classroom? In this article, we work through the productive problematic of employing a queer and pleasure-centered approach to teaching sexuality education in New Brunswick, Canada. Engaging participatory visual research methods and queer joy alongside 60 sexuality education teachers in five separate art-making workshops and online interviews, we describe the conditions when teachers seemed unable to access the language of queer joy, like when they teach in a conservative space, encounter shame and sex negativity, or when they lack the resources and guidance to feel confident to teach sexuality education. We propose that queer joy is a worldmaking project in sexuality education classrooms—that is most often experienced in tandem with resistance—and offers a futurity queered toward something joyfully different, including when it fails. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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