Unpacking the Islamophobic & Queerphobic Logics of the Sexuality Education Classroom: What Might Queer Joy Praxis Offer?
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| Title: | Unpacking the Islamophobic & Queerphobic Logics of the Sexuality Education Classroom: What Might Queer Joy Praxis Offer? |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Hafsah Mohammad, Casey Burkholder (ORCID |
| Source: | Gender and Education. 2025 37(7):811-829. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 19 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Social Bias, LGBTQ People, Sex Education, Educational Policy, Workshops, Faculty Development, Religious Factors, Cultural Influences, Social Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Resistance (Psychology), Racism |
| Geographic Terms: | Canada |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09540253.2025.2544534 |
| ISSN: | 0954-0253 1360-0516 |
| Abstract: | How might invoking queer joy praxis address antiqueer, Islamophobic, and settler colonial carceral logics in sexuality education classrooms? In this paper, we delve into the rise of queerphobic and transphobic policies and rhetoric, alongside growing homonationalist and Islamophobic discourses in New Brunswick, Canada. Using data emerging from five participatory visual workshops with 67 sexuality education teachers collected from 2022-2024, we explore how teachers seemed challenged to reconcile their sexuality education practice with the religious, cultural, and queer diversities that exist in their classrooms. Reflecting on these findings, we invoke the notion of queer joy praxis to confront the Islamophobic logics that emerged across the data. We seek to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of how religious, cultural, and queer diversities operate in and around sexuality education classrooms, considering how they might be reframed into spaces of joyful queer futures, accessible to all students, in all their multitudes. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1488328 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | How might invoking queer joy praxis address antiqueer, Islamophobic, and settler colonial carceral logics in sexuality education classrooms? In this paper, we delve into the rise of queerphobic and transphobic policies and rhetoric, alongside growing homonationalist and Islamophobic discourses in New Brunswick, Canada. Using data emerging from five participatory visual workshops with 67 sexuality education teachers collected from 2022-2024, we explore how teachers seemed challenged to reconcile their sexuality education practice with the religious, cultural, and queer diversities that exist in their classrooms. Reflecting on these findings, we invoke the notion of queer joy praxis to confront the Islamophobic logics that emerged across the data. We seek to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of how religious, cultural, and queer diversities operate in and around sexuality education classrooms, considering how they might be reframed into spaces of joyful queer futures, accessible to all students, in all their multitudes. |
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| ISSN: | 0954-0253 1360-0516 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09540253.2025.2544534 |
