Learning Difference

Riggs, Damien W.; Augoustinos, Martha

doi:10.1300/j461v03n02_06

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“…As a whole, then, the SSA website provides a non-normalising discussion of sexuality and gender in relation to sex education. Importantly, the website moves beyond liberal inclusivity (where 'diversity' in education is constructed as a problem of the other that must justify its existence, see Riggs & Augoustinos, 2007;Lovell & Riggs, 2009), and towards a thoroughly situated account of sexual and gender identities that is cognisant of the effects of social norms. As a public website, and as a key provider of sex education, SSA is thus relatively progressive in the agenda that it sets for engaging with topics relating to youth sexuality by providing a language in which a diverse range of sexualities and gender can be discussed in ways that are neither domesticating nor pathologising.…”

Section: Shine Sa (Ssa) Websitementioning

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Heteronormativity in Online Information about Sex: A South Australian Case Study

Riggs

2013

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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Whilst sex education in Australia has moved beyond a focus solely on abstinence, it is still in many instances shaped by what Silin refers to as the 'silences' that accompany topics considered unspeakable to young people. The present article focuses specifically on one such silence, namely the representation of non-heterosexual sexualities and non-gender-normative people in the context of sex education. By focusing on three South Australian websites that act as first ports of call in terms of information about sex and sex education to young people and their parents, the analysis provided suggests that two of the three websites evoke a range of heteronormative and gender-normative assumptions, with one of these sites more explicitly emphasising reproductive heterosex, and the other adopting a liberal approach that nonetheless fails to adequately challenge stereotypes about nonheterosexuality and non-gender normativity. The third site, by contrast, provides relatively progressive inclusion of a range of genders and sexualities, and addresses homophobia and its effects. The article concludes by suggesting that websites providing information about sex to young people and their parents must make a substantive shift away from perpetuating the silencing of marginal sexualities and genders, and towards contributing to open public discussion about young people and sex.

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Heteronormativity in Online Information about Sex: A South Australian Case Study

Riggs

2013

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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Intercountry Adoption and the Inappropriate/d Other: Refusing the Disappearance of Birth Families

Riggs¹

2012

Social Policy & Society

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Dominant social norms relating to families shape the lives of all people. This can have negative effects upon non-traditional families. This is especially the case in terms of adoption, where a focus solely on the adoptive family can often result in the 'disappearance' of the birth family. This paper explores the location of birth families in relation to adoptive families by examining a sample of children's storybooks aimed at adoptive children living with lesbian or gay parents as but one example of how policy makers may come to identify dominant cultural norms that circulate about birth families in the context of intercountry adoption. A number of key tropes are identified across these books, namely the ghostly presence of birth families, and the representation of birth parents as deviant (thus warranting the removal of their children).

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The Good and the Bad: Lesbian Parents’ Experiences of Australian Early Childhood Settings and Their Suggestions for Working Effectively with Families

Cloughessy

Waniganayake

Blatterer

2019

Journal of Research in Childhood Education

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Learning Difference

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Heteronormativity in Online Information about Sex: A South Australian Case Study

Heteronormativity in Online Information about Sex: A South Australian Case Study

Intercountry Adoption and the Inappropriate/d Other: Refusing the Disappearance of Birth Families

The Good and the Bad: Lesbian Parents’ Experiences of Australian Early Childhood Settings and Their Suggestions for Working Effectively with Families

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