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MAPPING QUEER SPACE(S) OF PRAXIS AND PEDAGOGY Edited by Elizabeth McNeil, James E. Wermers, and Joshua O. Lunn QUEER Series Editors STUDIES & William F. Pinar EDUCATION Nelson M. Rodriguez, & Reta Ugena Whitlock Queer Studies and Education Series Editors William F. Pinar Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Nelson M. Rodriguez Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies The College of New Jersey Ewing, NJ, USA Reta Ugena Whitlock Department of Educational Leadership Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA, USA LGBTQ social, cultural, and political issues have become a definingfeature of twenty-first century life, transforming on a global scale any number of institutions, including the institution of education. Situated within the context of these major transformations, this series is home to the most compelling, innovative, and timely scholarship emerging at the intersection of queer studies and education. Across a broad range of educational topics and locations, books in this series incorporate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex categories, as well as scholarship in queer theory arising out of the postmodern turn in sexuality studies. The series is wide-ranging in terms of disciplinary/theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, and will include and illuminate much needed intersectional scholarship. Always bold in outlook, the series also welcomes projects that challenge any number of normalizing tendencies within academic scholarship from works that move beyond established frameworks of knowledge production within LGBTQ educational research to works that expand the range of what is institutionally defined within the field of education as relevant queer studies scholarship. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/series/14522 Elizabeth McNeil • James E. Wermers Joshua O. Lunn Editors Mapping Queer Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy Editors Elizabeth McNeil James E. Wermers Languages and Cultures Languages and Cultures College of Integrative Sciences College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University and Arts, Arizona State University Phoenix, Arizona, USA Phoenix, Arizona, USA Joshua O. Lunn Snowflake, Arizona, USA Queer Studies and Education ISBN 978-3-319-64622-0 ISBN 978-3-319-64623-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-64623-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017955016 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image © Jane Lackey, Golden Maze, East, tape, stickers, thread, paint on paper, 45” × 54” (photo credit: Tim Thayer) Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The contributors to this volume are generous, provocative thinkers, researchers, writers, artists, activists, performers, and educators. It has been an immense pleasure working with them and to see the tremendous gifts they give the world. We are grateful for permission from Routledge India, Taylor and Francis Group, to republish segments from Chap. 2 of Rohit K. Dasgupta’s Digital Queer Cultures in India (2017) in Chap. 10 of this volume, “Online Romeos and Gay-dia: Exploring Queer Spaces in Digital India.” Excerpts from Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing, by Stacey Waite, © 2017, are reprinted herein by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Chap. 12 “Intersextionality: Embodied Knowledge, Bodies of Knowledge.” We appreciate permission to reprint, as Chap. 14, Kerri A. Mesner’s “Innovations in Sexual-Theological Activism: Queer Theology Meets Theatre of the Oppressed,” from Theology & Sexuality: The Journal of the Institute for the Study of Christianity & Sexuality 16 (3) (2010): 285–303. For the visual elements in this volume, we want to thank Branden Buehler and Roxanne Samer for their network images of queer aca- demic kinship in Chap. 2 “Queer Acknowledgments.” Jane Lackey has graciously allowed us to use Golden Maze, East—her mixed-media depiction of a 2007 protest march in Rangoon by Burmese monks, nuns, activists, and students—both in Libby Balter Blume and Rosemary Weatherston’s “Queering the Campus Gender Landscape through Visual Arts Praxis,” Chap. 5, and as the cover of our book. We thank the other artists featured in this chapter, too—Molly Marie Nuzzo, Bren Ahearn, v vi Acknowledgments Danielle Hermann, Libby Balter Blume, Vagner M. Whitehead, Owen Eric Wood, Alana Bartol, K. Steven Sherrill, Joyce Polance, Amanda Dillingham, and the Flatlands Dance Theatre—who gave us permission to publish their work from the juried international Women’s and Gender Studies Biennial Art Exhibition, University of Detroit Mercy, which, for the last 12 years, has interrogated and deconstructed ideas of gender, sexuality, and binary models of identity in academic space. Milana Vernikova, our editor at Palgrave, has provided invaluable help and good cheer all along the way, for which we are most grateful. CONTENTS 1 Introduction: Mapping Queer Space(s) 1 The Editors Section I Que(e)rying the Academy 19 2 Queer Acknowledgments 21 Branden Buehler and Roxanne Samer 3 Queer Settlers in a One-Room Schoolhouse: A Decolonial Queerscape Pedagogy 39 Garrett W. Nichols 4 Queering the First-Year Composition Student (and Teacher): A Democratizing Endeavor 57 Mark McBeth and Tara Pauliny 5 Queering the Campus Gender Landscape Through Visual Arts Praxis 71 Libby Balter Blume and Rosemary Weatherston vii viii Contents 6 Safety in Numbers: On the Queerness of Quantification 105 Adam J. Greteman and Justin N. Thorpe Section II Queer Out Here: Public Bodies and Spaces 125 7 Out There: The Lesbian in Literature 127 Amy Gall 8 Work This Cunt Bucket: Knowledge, Love, and De-containment in Sapphire’s Push 141 Michael Angelo Tata 9 “Modern” Is as Modern Does: Modern Family and the Disruption of Gender Binaries 169 Bruce E. Drushel 10 Online Romeos and Gay-dia: Exploring Queer Spaces in Digital India 183 Rohit K. Dasgupta 11 Femme Is a Verb: An Alternative Reading of Femininity and Feminism 201 Sarah Murray Section III Enspiriting, Living, Teaching Queer 215 12 Intersextionality: Embodied Knowledge, Bodies of Knowledge 217 Stacey Waite 13 Take a Left at the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Exploring the Queer Crossroads of Art, Religion, and Education Through Big Gay Church 229 Mindi Rhoades, Kimberly Cosier, James H. Sanders III, Courtnie Wolfgang, and Melanie Davenport Contents ix 14 Innovations in Sexual-Theological Activism: Queer Theology Meets Theatre of the Oppressed 249 Kerri A. Mesner 15 Queer Homes in a Non-Queer World 269 Katie Goldstein 16 Teaching Desire in Third Space: A Queer Prison Pedagogy for the Unknowing Spirit 279 Elizabeth McNeil and Joshua O. Lunn Section IV AnimalQueer 303 17 The Bestiary of Friends 305 Margot Young 18 Animalqueer/Queeranimal: Scatterings 321 Aneil Rallin Index 329 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Libby Balter Blume University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, USA Branden Buehler Department of Communication and Media, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY, USA Kimberly Cosier University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA Rohit K. Dasgupta Institute for Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University, London, UK Melanie Davenport Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA Bruce E. Drushel Miami University, Cincinnati, OH, USA Amy Gall Brooklyn, NY, USA Katie Goldstein Brooklyn, NY, USA Adam J. Greteman School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Joshua O. Lunn Snowflake,AZ, USA Mark McBeth Department of English, John Jay College/CUNY, New York, NY, USA Elizabeth McNeil Languages and Cultures, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA xi xii List of Contributors Kerri A. Mesner Arcadia University School of Education, Glenside, PA, USA Sarah Murray Covina, CA, USA Garrett W. Nichols Department of English, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA, USA Tara Pauliny Department of English, John Jay College/CUNY, New York, NY, USA Aneil Rallin Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, CA, USA Mindi Rhoades The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Roxanne Samer Department