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Publication Date: 2025
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Categories Are Made to Be Broken: Uncovering Strategies and Pedagogies of BlaQueer Resistance
Femi Higgins
International Journal of Human Rights Education, v9 n1 Article 4 2025
This article explores the liberatory praxis and spaces of BlaQueer (Black & Queer) and Trans communities, focusing on educational settings that promote the rights and well-being of Black LGBTQ+ people and how these BlaQueer/Trans educational projects disrupt asymmetrical citizenship and violence. The analysis of BlaQueer/Trans educational projects, ranging from ballroom houses to community-based education programs, reveals core competencies that align with human rights education (HRE) and principles of ballroom culture. These include critical thinking and analysis of power structures and embodied resistance pedagogies that interrogate identity and unequal citizenship while building power to dismantle interlocking oppressive systems. The article contends that these BlaQueer/Trans educational projects exemplify quintessential forms of transformative human rights education, linking intersectional analysis to personal and societal transformative action.
Descriptors: African Americans, LGBTQ People, Resistance (Psychology), Civil Rights, Dance, Educational Practices, Popular Education, Transformative Learning
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Language: English
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