Openly gay teachers often perform palatable identities that reinforce dominant norms.

Evidence

While “splitters” describe practices and discursive techniques they employ to stay closeted at school and “quitters” leave the field, “knitters” are visibly out at school, but in ways that work with their professional identities. Both resisting and assimilating, “knitters” may succeed in their goal of providing role models for LGBTQ youth, but they do so in a way that reproduces the notion of a “right” way to be out, through the policing of gender expression, which always intersects with race, class, and sexuality to produce power along intersecting axes. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1258

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Connell’s tripartite categories of splitters, knitters, and quitters as negotiating strategies.
• XREF: connects to: Legal prohibitions on disclosure punish sexuality without appearing to ban it outright. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1244; Multicultural affirmation alone does not achieve collective liberation. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1272; Some queer educators teach as co-learners rather than as identity-based role models. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1263 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Some queer educators teach as co-learners rather than as identity-based role models. #contradicts (0.85) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1263
• Professors can teach radical content while enforcing bourgeois classroom decorum #expands (0.85) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 358
• Queer identity can be conceived as a bridge rather than a closet. #qualifies (0.80) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1270
• Professors can espouse liberatory theory while practicing domination in class #expands (0.80)
• Social norms make people present stable identities that others can trust #expands (0.75)
• Complementarian teachers blamed women for men’s sexual behavior #exemplifies (0.72)