Discussing LGBTQ+ Issues with Muslim Students in the ESL Classroom: The Interface of Culture, Religion, and Sexuality

Güney, Özge

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76779-2_3

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“…Indeed, entertainment media such as movies or shows can encourage positive attitudes towards diversity, especially if minority characters are depicted as attractive and having friendly interactions with others and society (Żerebecki et al, 2021). It may be because LGBTQ+ is still a very sensitive and controversial issue in many societies, especially in Eastern culture (Güney, 2021). Consequently, LGBTQ+ is often represented only through side characters who are not too prominent so as not to disturb those who are against the LGBTQ+ community.…”

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“From the Series, I See that LGBTQ+ Characters are Ordinary People”: An Audience Study on Netflix Series with LGBTQ+ Themes in 2020–2022

Trisnawati,

Sari,

Hadiningrum

2023

Humaniora

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The research focused on how the audience of gender-diverse series in Indonesia reacted to the LGBTQ+ themes broadcasted in some Netflix series aired from 2020 to 2022. It was interesting to discuss, considering that LGBTQ+ issues were still taboo, and that Indonesian society was known to be conventional and religious. By examining the audience’s reactions to the narration of LGBTQ+ themes, the research delved deeper into how Indonesian audience members problematize the LGBTQ+ issues in the Netflix series. The research was conducted with the qualitative research method by asking 70 participants, from whom validated informed consent was retrieved in advance, to answer the questions posed in the online questionnaire employed herein and by inviting them to join Zoom-mediated interviews. Three problematizations are found: Netflix’s ideology related to its LGBTQ+ content, audience perception about the LGBTQ+ community, and audience religiosity before and after watching such a series. There are also varying views on these problematizations according to the various manners in which audience members are reasoning, which are subsequently assigned to several clusters. Ultimately, such problematizations help shed light on how Netflix and its LGBTQ+ content is dynamically perceived by the audience.

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“From the Series, I See that LGBTQ+ Characters are Ordinary People”: An Audience Study on Netflix Series with LGBTQ+ Themes in 2020–2022

Trisnawati,

Sari,

Hadiningrum

2023

Humaniora

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In Pursuit of Queer Inquiry with Turkish EFL Preservice Teachers

Güney

2023

TESOL Quarterly

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Based on queer critical literacies framework, this study describes an intervention that aimed to help preservice teachers identify and deconstruct heteronormative discourse in Turkish social and educational contexts. Through a local documentary that narrates the experiences of a Turkish transgender individual, preservice teachers critique the normal/abnormal binary as conditioned by social practices, power relations, and religion in Turkey. The study further explores the attitudes of preservice teachers towards incorporation of sexuality issues in the English classroom and in English language teaching programs with data from in‐class discussions and individual interviews conducted at three Turkish state universities. Certain methodological challenges I encountered during data collection are also presented to hopefully give insights to future researchers interested in exploring sexual diversity issues in similar settings. As for the findings, the study revealed that participants’ lived experiences of queer conversations with teacher educators enabled them to successfully identify and deconstruct heteronormative discourses in their programs. Their experiences as trainee teachers additionally showed that queer discussions, considered a taboo in the Turkish society, are inevitable in the English classroom. However, preservice teachers revealed certain reservations about how or whether they would adopt a queer friendly discourse in their future classrooms considering the strict government policies and high levels of religiosity in society. It is thus critical that (preservice) teachers in conservative communities be pedagogically prepared for future encounters of queer discussions to offer a respectful classroom environment for all learners. Queer critical literacies might be a useful framework for teacher educators to increase awareness of teachers about how dominant discourses may reinforce heteronormativity and how teachers could be agents of change by identifying and deconstructing such discourses to create a safe classroom environment for learners of diverse sexual identities.

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Opening the Conversation on Intersectional Issues in LGBTQ+ Studies in Applied Linguistics

Paiz

2021

Intersectional Perspectives on LGBTQ+ Issues in Modern Language Teaching and Learning

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Discussing LGBTQ+ Issues with Muslim Students in the ESL Classroom: The Interface of Culture, Religion, and Sexuality

Cited by 5 publications

References 35 publications

“From the Series, I See that LGBTQ+ Characters are Ordinary People”: An Audience Study on Netflix Series with LGBTQ+ Themes in 2020–2022

“From the Series, I See that LGBTQ+ Characters are Ordinary People”: An Audience Study on Netflix Series with LGBTQ+ Themes in 2020–2022

In Pursuit of Queer Inquiry with Turkish EFL Preservice Teachers

Opening the Conversation on Intersectional Issues in LGBTQ+ Studies in Applied Linguistics

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