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Acting Out!
Combating Homophobia Through Teacher Activism
Edited by Mollie V. Blackburn, Caroline T. Clark, Lauren M. Kenney, and Jill M. Smith
Foreword by JoBeth Allen
Practitioner Inquiry Series
Pub Date: November 2009, 208 pages
Paperback: $26.95, ISBN: 080775031X
Cloth: $58, ISBN: 0807750328
 
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• Philip C. Chinn Book Award, 2011
• Richard A. Meade Award, CEE/NCTE, 2011
• Choice Oustanding Academic Title, 2010
• AERA Queer Studies SIG Body of Work Award “Acting Out! provides vivid examples of gender-fair and antihomophobic spaces where all students can thrive. These courageous stories serve as both chronicles of resistance and a blueprint for change. A little acting out for social justice is just what we need about now.”
—Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, author of The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities
"Inspiring and humbling. The authors invite us into their journey with such gripping honesty and complexity that we cannot help but to see the activist potential of teacher inquiry groups like that modeled here. Whether LGBTQ or Ally, readers will find themselves drawn deeply into Acting Out!...and grateful that they did so."
—Kevin K. Kumashiro, author of The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools In this volume, teachers from urban, suburban, and rural districts join together in a teacher inquiry group to challenge homophobia and heterosexism in schools and classrooms. To create safe learning environments for all students they address key topics, including seizing teachable moments, organizing faculty, deciding whether to come out in the classroom, using LGBTQ-inclusive texts, running a Gay-Straight Alliance, changing district policy to protect LGBTQ teachers and students, dealing with resistant students, and preparing preservice teachers to do antihomophobia work. Book Features: - Examples of antihomophobia teaching across elementary, secondary, and university contexts, and discussions of the consequences of this work.
- Concrete discussions of how to start a teacher inquiry group, and the challenges and rewards of engaging in teacher activism.
- A comprehensive annotated bibliography of texts that address homophobia and heterosexism.
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