Queer Pedagogy: violence against a Queer parent in early childhood education

Abstract

This article presents an everyday experience in the field of early childhood education, specifically colonial cisgender-endosex violence contained in teachers’ discourse. Possible forms of resistance based on Queer studies and experiences are presented. The article discusses the colonial cisgender-endosex apparatus through a perspective of biopower, which circulates in the school space in an exclusionary, pejorative and discriminatory way. The study draws on decolonial and post-structuralist theory, articulated with emerging issues from queer, feminist and anti-racist production. The results of the research evidence the existence of some escape lines for the school’s agency in relation to its cisheteronormative discourse. The discussion focuses on how the intersection of other discourses present in the school, driven by an increased cultural and political visibility of the Queer population, contribute to the construction of Queer Pedagogy.