Abstract
Mindi Rhoades, Kimberly Cosier, James H. Sanders III, Courtnie Wolfgang, and Melanie Davenport—a collective of art educators—engage the intersections of art, religion, and education as an occasion for queer thinking and performance. Within academic contexts, these educators use queer theory and critical performance pedagogies (Denzin; Garoian and Gaudelius) to research, critique, and re-present the intersections of conservative protestant religion, education, the arts, and LGBTQ identities in the USA. In addition, for eight years, Big Gay Church (BGC) has presented as a formal session at the National Art Education Association’s annual convention, serving as a playful yet substantive forum for collaboratively pursuing and performing serious academic arts-based educational research around specific issues of identity, equity, power, and social justice in education.
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“Letter to Coretta .”
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See HRC, Export of Hate; HRC, Scott Lively.
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Rhoades, M., Cosier, K., Sanders, J.H., Wolfgang, C., Davenport, M. (2018). Take a Left at the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Exploring the Queer Crossroads of Art, Religion, and Education Through Big Gay Church. In: McNeil, E., Wermers, J., Lunn, J. (eds) Mapping Queer Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy. Queer Studies and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64623-7_13
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