eprintid: 10147348
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creators_name: Gray, John
title: 'When you don't see yourself on the page, it's harder to imagine yourself as person' - Gender and Sexuality in ELT
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divisions: B14
divisions: J77
divisions: B16
divisions: UCL
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abstract: Despite decades of progressive social reform with regard to LGBTQ protection in many countries around the world, demands that the ELT curriculum addresses queer absence, or LGBTQ erasure, have fallen largely on deaf ears. In this paper I address key issues surrounding representation, identification and erasure, and I explore some of the reasons for the systematic editing out of non-normative genders and sexualities from English language teaching. My contention is that LGBTQ erasure is a double injustice—on the one hand an injustice against LGBTQ people who are denied recognition in the curriculum and on the other an injustice against those who are not LGBTQ and who are denied the opportunity to see the world through different eyes. I conclude by offering some suggestions as to how we might redress this situation.
date: 2022-03
date_type: published
publisher: Japanese Association of College English Teachers
official_url: https://doi.org/10.32234/jacetjournal.66.0_21
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1950704
doi: 10.32234/jacetjournal.66.0_21
lyricists_name: Gray, John
lyricists_id: JGRAY79
actors_name: Gray, John
actors_id: JGRAY79
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: JACET Journal
volume: 66
number: 2022
place_of_pub: Japan
pagerange: 21-28
pages: 7
event_location: Japan
edition: 1st
citation:        Gray, John;      (2022)    'When you don't see yourself on the page, it's harder to imagine yourself as person' - Gender and Sexuality in ELT.                   JACET Journal , 66  (2022)   pp. 21-28.    10.32234/jacetjournal.66.0_21 <https://doi.org/10.32234/jacetjournal.66.0_21>.       Green open access   
 
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