We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Conversation: Making Space for Non-Binary and Trans Gender Narratives in Curriculum Studies
Abstract
Issues of gender have been and continue to be a part of the narrative of curriculum studies, but despite the field’s deep commitment to social justice, cisnormative narratives largely drive conversations that center gender. When non-binary and trans narratives are promoted in curriculum conversations, they are often under the guise inclusivity, although largely promoted through a cisgender lens and additive in nature. The goal for this presentation is to bring forth an important and critical discussion about the exclusion and marginalization of non-binary gender and trans gender narratives within the field of curriculum studies. The presenter will disrupt the normative binary gender narrative and urge the inclusion of non-binary and trans gender voices by: (1) highlighting problematic gaps in curriculum studies related to gender inclusivity; (2) exposing ways in which conversations that center on gender maintain cisnormativity; and (3) presenting possibilities for interrupting the current cisnormative narrative of gender to include non-binary and trans gender narratives.
Presentation Description
Issues of gender have been and continue to be a part of the narrative of curriculum studies, but despite the field’s deep commitment to social justice, cisnormative narratives largely drive conversations that center gender. The goal for this presentation is to bring forth a critical discussion about the exclusion and marginalization of non-binary gender and trans gender narratives within the field. The presenter will disrupt the normative binary gender narrative and urge the inclusion of non-binary and trans gender voices.
Keywords
Transgender; Non-Binary; Cisgender; Cisnormative; Gender
Location
Room B
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Stachowiak, Dana M., "We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Conversation: Making Space for Non-Binary and Trans Gender Narratives in Curriculum Studies" (2018). Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. 11.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cssc/2018/2018/11
We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Conversation: Making Space for Non-Binary and Trans Gender Narratives in Curriculum Studies
Room B
Issues of gender have been and continue to be a part of the narrative of curriculum studies, but despite the field’s deep commitment to social justice, cisnormative narratives largely drive conversations that center gender. When non-binary and trans narratives are promoted in curriculum conversations, they are often under the guise inclusivity, although largely promoted through a cisgender lens and additive in nature. The goal for this presentation is to bring forth an important and critical discussion about the exclusion and marginalization of non-binary gender and trans gender narratives within the field of curriculum studies. The presenter will disrupt the normative binary gender narrative and urge the inclusion of non-binary and trans gender voices by: (1) highlighting problematic gaps in curriculum studies related to gender inclusivity; (2) exposing ways in which conversations that center on gender maintain cisnormativity; and (3) presenting possibilities for interrupting the current cisnormative narrative of gender to include non-binary and trans gender narratives.
