Beyond Bullying: Stories of LGBTQ Sexuality in Schools

Presenters:

Jessica Fields, San Francisco State University, author of “Risky Lessons: Sex Education an dSocial Inequality” (Rutgers Univesrity Press)

Jen Gilbert, York University, author of “Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education” (University of Minnesota Press)

Fields and Gilbert will be screening excerpts of stories from their multimedia storytelling project, Beyond Bullying, that explores LGBTQ sexualities in high schools. As teachers and students shared stories of LGBTQ sexualities, families, friendship, and cultures, they pushed back against the narrow casting of LGBTQ issues in school with risk, vulnerability and pathology and offered a portrait of LGBTQ sexualities as complex, ambivalent and ordinary.