Full Description
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, José A. García.
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.
