Moving from the Margins: Centering Womens, Queer, and Trans Voices
Ways to promote self-expression and knowledge-creation in the classroom that go beyond the textbook:
- Ask students to edit and/or create Wikipedia articles about notable women or LGBTQ+ notable people—or ask them to generate content about topics or issues related to gender and sexuality.
- Have students create digital or print zines to promote self-expression
- Craft a collaborative syllabus, including a community agreement, with students
- Develop an oral history project where the students’ personal stories are preserved
- Write an open textbook or other open educational resources over the course of the term with students
- Invite students to develop a service-learning project
- Encourage students to make tutorial videos
These projects (with the permission of students) could be added to Huskie Commons or another repository.
ACT UP for Evaluating Sources
Because source evaluation is social justice work, it is critical we teach students how to push against privilege in publishing as well as identifying misinformation before sharing it with others.
Dawn Stahura, Simmons College: ACT UP for evaluating sources
Practicing Citational Justice
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Citational Justice is the act of citing authors based on identify to uplift marginalized voices with the knowledge that citation is used as a form of power in a patriarchal society based on white supremacy.
Open Textbooks
- Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach by Amory, Massey, and Miller
Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of topics, including history, culture, and Queer Theory; an exploration of LGBTQ+ relationships, families, parenting, health, and education; and how to conduct research on LGBTQ+ topics. The book explores LGBTQ+ issues from the ancient world to contemporary global perspectives. Employing an intersectional analysis, the textbook highlights how sexuality and gender are simultaneously experienced and constructed through other structures of inequality and privilege, such as race and class. - Sexuality, the Self, and Society by Rahman, Bowman, and Jackson
Content included in Sexuality, the Self, and Society is aligned with the typical scope for an introductory, interdisciplinary Human Sexuality Textbook. It is written to be a complete text for a semester length course but could be used, in part, reorganized, or edited in true OER fashion. It is meant to be accessible, relevant, and inclusive. It also will not remain static meaning that the author will continue to update periodically and those who adopt may do so as they see fit. - Gendered Lives: Global Issues by Fernandez and Nelson
Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors’ ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North. Each regional section begins with an overview of the broader historical, social, and gendered contexts, which situate the regions within larger global linkages. These introductions also feature short project/people profiles that highlight the work of community leaders or non-governmental organizations active in gender-related issues. - Sexuality and Translation in World Politics by Cottet and Picq
Translating sexuality in world politics forces us to confront issues of emancipation, colonisation, and sovereignty, in which global frameworks are locally embraced and/or resisted. Translating sexualities is a political act entangled in power politics, imperialism and foreign intervention. This book explores the entanglements of sex and tongue in international relations from Kyrgyzstan to Nepal, Japan to Tajikistan, Kurdistan to Amazonia.