Please join us for a GASWorks Seminar on March 27th from 12-1:30pm at the LGBT Center (3907 Spruce Street).

This spring GASWorks has additionally teamed up with OutEd to bring you this wonderful seminar! 

Featuring Edward Brockenbrough (Warner School of Education, Un of Rochester) and Marla Munro (GSE, Penn)

Edward Brockenbrough (GSE '09) is assistant professor, Teaching andCurriculum at the Warner Graduate School of Education, University of Rochester.

His article is titled "Becoming Queerly Responsive: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Black and Latino Urban Queer Youth"

Abstract: Although recent attention to homophobic bullying in American K-12 schools has increased public concern over the plight of queer students, it has also fallen short of addressing a range of dilemmas facing urban queer  youth of color, whose needs extend beyond protection from homophobic victimization. Drawing upon an ethnographic study of an HIV/AIDS prevention and supports center, this article describes the center’s culturally responsive pedagogical work with Black and Latino urban queer youth, and it identifies several implications for how educational and community stakeholders who work with urban youth might engage this particular population in a culturally  responsive manner.

Marla Munro is an M.S.Ed. candidate at the Penn Graduate School of Education. 

Her paper is titled “Reading, Writing and Heterosexuality: Learning to Be Straight in Elementary School.”

Abstract:  Heterosexuality is often assumed to be an innate orientation, experienced by the majority of people. However, insufficient attention is paid to the societal forces that encourage (and demand) heterosexual identification and practice, while stigmatizing and repressing queer desire. This paper explores the sexual socialization students experience starting in elementary school, and considers how this learning of heterosexuality can lead to alternative sexual identity development trajectories for LGBQ youth and unrealized queer possibility for heterosexual-identified youth. 

lunch will be served. Please RSVP to receive the pre-circulated papers.