Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Reinforcing Heteronormativity in the Classroom



Classroom as a site of reproducing heteronormatvity.
  • ·      When a professor or TA assumes a student is heterosexual, it is normalizing heterosexuality.
  • ·      When our history tends to only focus on “straight” individuals and tend to ignore the LGBTI history an individuals. 
  • ·      When sexuality is not discussed in the classroom and seen as taboo. It becomes another way the existence of "alternative" sexualities are over looked. Another way heterosexuality is normalized. 
  • ·      When classes such as “hard” sciences think that sexuality is not relevant when it is.
  • ·      When homophobic comments go unaddressed

No comments:

Post a Comment