Queer Epistemologies in Education

Moira Pérez is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Assistant Researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET). At the convergence of Practical Philosophy and Queer Theory, her research focuses on the articulation between violence and identity, with particular interest in epistemic and institutional violence.Gracia Trujillo-Barbadillo is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Education at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain, and feminist and queer/cuir activist. Trujillo-Barbadillo has published on lgtbi and queer theories and political practices, queer epistemologies in education, sexual politics, memories, archives, and queer kinship and reproduction.

• 1. Introduction.- Section I. Between Theories and Practices.- 2. Perspectivizing and reimagining queer times and places through collaborative interventionist research in a Brazilian school.- 3. Queering Freire’s Pedagogies: Resistance, Empowerment and Transgression in Teacher Training.- 4. Queer, Crip, and Social Pedagogy: A Critical Hermeneutic Perspective.- 5. Pedagogical Devices in/of the Images. Notes on Lesbian Desire and Knowing How to Fuck.- Section II. Queering the Classroom and Beyond.- 6. Gender and Sexuality in the Brazilian Educational Rhizome: A Cartogenealogy of the Production of Difference in the Plot of Curricular Public Policies.- 7. Diva Yes! Free to Fly! Queer Resistance of Young Students in a Public School in the Capital of Piauí, Brazil.- 8. Claiming their Right to Appear: the Gender Studies Research Group, from the Free University of Colombia, as Maker of Oppositional Knowledge.- Section III. Queer Pedagogies in and for Regressive Times.- 9. ‘Gender ideology’ in conservative discourses: public sphere and sex education in Latin America.- 10. Subjectivities, bodies and desires: Costa Rican secondary teachers and students discourses about sexual diversity.- 11. Fear of a Queer Pedagogy of Law.- 12. "A Glossary of Queer".- 13. Conclusion: Shared horizons and future challenges.