Telling tales from the queer periphery: heteronormative discourses in Australian primary schools.
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| Title: | Telling tales from the queer periphery: heteronormative discourses in Australian primary schools. |
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| Authors: | Milenkovic, James1 (AUTHOR) james.milenkovic@live.vu.edu.au, Vicars, Mark1 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Sex Education. May2026, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p376-387. 12p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Psychology of teachers, *Elementary schools, *Occupational roles, *Discrimination (Sociology), *Interpersonal relations, *Cultural pluralism, LGBTQ+ people, Sexual orientation identity, Work environment, Homosexuality, Social stigma |
| Geographic Terms: | Victoria |
| Abstract: | This paper discusses how gay/queer educators in primary schools in the state of Victoria, Australia, can become entrapped in a network of differences, displacements, and deferrals from being positioned in relation to the straight cultural imaginary, and how such positioning produced varying degrees of anxiety about embodying a stigmatised identity. In line with a post-qualitative mode, we (re)situate ourselves as 'data' and reconstruct a series of professional experiences characterised by psychic fragmentation and discomfort vis-à-vis heteronormative discourses. We write with personal reminiscences as testimony to the bifurcation of the personal and professional, and to story ourselves out of the transitional spaces of disassociation, dis-identification, and differentiation that can occur when identity discourses collide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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