Dialogue on Queering Arts Education across the Americas

Abstract

This article constitutes a conversation between professionals of differing generations and nationalities: a North American tenured academic Baby Boomer born in 1951 and a vintage 1986 Millennial South American neophyte professor from Brazil. In this article, we merge our voices in pursuing a literature review and exploring pedagogical practices within arts education classrooms through visual culture studies. We discuss our approaches to introducing queer sexuality subjects within the classroom, define key concepts and terms, tease out our queer theoretical standpoints, and concretely illustrate how we have attempted to perform our queer theorizing through our pedagogical practices.