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IJHRE Vol. 9 | Special Issue: Queering Human Rights Education: Research Praxis and Liberation for LGBTQIA2S+

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The International Journal of Human Rights Education is an independent, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal dedicated to the examination of the theory, philosophy, research, and praxis central to the field of human rights education. This journal seeks to be a central location for critical thought in the field as it continues to expand.

This special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights Education, Queering Human Rights Education: Research, Praxis and Liberation for LGBTQIA2S+, presents research, reflection on practice, and reviews of new scholarship that highlight the experience of LGBTQIA2S+ students, educators, and activists through a human rights lens. The articles draw on diverse methodologies, perspectives, and intersecting identities to reimagine not just schools but all spaces of learning, from ballrooms to the internet, as sites for LGBTQ+ joy and liberation. The scholarship in this issue is “queer” not only in its focus on LGBTQ+ stakeholders in education but also in the way it challenges all that is considered normal and natural. It queers education, human rights, and human rights education by troubling power, questioning assumptions about sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) and replacing binary thinking with more complex, situated, fluid ways of understanding. And in a world where the news about SOGIESC is mostly bad, the authors in this issue also hold on to the agency, desires, and creativity of the queer community while at the same time documenting the incredible challenges of this moment. This moment in queer rights calls for the kind of thinking and action at the core of this journal: clearly, queer rights are an international concern that need to be framed as human rights and secured through, among other means, education.

Special Issue Guest Edited by David Donahue, Maria Autrey Noriega, Lori Selke, and Mauro Sifuentes

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