Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Apr 2010 Open Access

Queer Rhetorics and Service-Learning: Reflection as Critical Engagement

Geoffrey W. Bateman

Abstract

In Queer Rhetorics, an upper-division service-learning writing course taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2005, students used queer theory to frame their engagement with local LGBTQ non-profit organizations in Boulder. In their journals, students moved from responding personally to the course material and their volunteer work to generating their own critical inquiries into queer discourse, as well as community-based service projects. This essay argues that self-reflecting on their own sexual citizenship in the context of community engagement fosters students' critical understanding of the public rhetoric of sexuality and gender and the social norms that delimit our sexual worlds.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2010-04-01
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10.59236/rjv9i2pp89-112
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rhetorical criticism discourse analysis writing pedagogy service learning gender and writing public rhetoric
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