Divisive Concepts Laws (DCL) are legislative acts and state and local policies that restrict teaching, learning, and professional development in PK- 20 education regarding race, gender, sexuality, and history. In November 2022, we surveyed NAfME members to ascertain the perceived impacts of DCL on music educators, music teacher educators, and…

Teaching in university education programmes, can, at times, involve the uncomfortable situation of discriminatory speech. A situation that has often occurred in our own teaching, and in those of our colleagues, is the citation of homophobic and heterosexist comments.These are comments that are more likely to occur in foundation subjects such as…

Seeks rhetoric(s) that enact corporeally in language suggestions of "queer," a "queer rhetoric," in which desire/bodies put into play a kind of linguistic music. Searches for "queer," particularly its sexual and gendering connotations. Connects that with postmodern, poststructuralist rhetoric(s) as self-referential.…