Queerly Responsive Pedagogy in Anti-Queer Times

The UCR School of Education Ethnic Studies Speaker Series, in collaboration with the Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC), invites you to join our Fall Public Talk: Queerly Responsive Pedagogy in Anti-Queer Times.

Queerly responsive pedagogy is a framework for teaching and learning that counters anti-queerness and other forms of domination that marginalize LGBTQ+ youth with critically caring attention to these young people’s identities, agency, desires, community-building, and knowledge production. As anti-queerness expands its pernicious reach across US K-12 schools, queerly responsive pedagogy has become more necessary—and more dangerous. This presentation will define queerly responsive pedagogy and consider how to manage the risks associated with its implementation in our current anti-queer milieu.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ed Brockenbrough

Dr. Ed Brockenbrough is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) in Philadelphia, PA, where he teaches courses on diversity and social justice issues in education to doctoral students as well as to current and future K–12 educators. His research focuses on negotiations of identity, pedagogy, and power in urban educational spaces, particularly through the lenses of Black masculinity studies and queer of color critique. Previous projects include a study of an HIV/AIDS community-based agency that functioned as a pedagogical space for Black queer youth; and the SENT Study, an examination of how young Black queer males used social media and internet sites as alternative sources for sex education, which was funded by the University of Rochester’s Center for AIDS Research and the University of Pennsylvania’s Calvin Bland Faculty Fellowship. His latest research project explores the sexuality education experiences of queer Gen-Zers in the United States. Dr. Brockenbrough’s work has appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, and he is the author of two books: Black Men Teaching in Urban Schools: Reassessing Masculinity (Routledge, 2018), and Learning While Black and Queer: Understanding the Educational Experiences of Black LGBTQ+ Youth (Harvard Education Press, 2024).

https://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/ed-brockenbrough

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