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This chapter returns to the question of whether heterosexuality can be queered and whether straight people can queer it. The chapter claims that there is a legitimacy and necessity of developing transgressive sexualities, especially heterosexualities, but including homosexualities, that interrogate and interrupt their privilege publicly. I explore three themes: coming out straight as a tactic; the problem of being nomadic as a heterosexual and the need for these accounts to be public. This may mean that heterosexual allies need to admit to same sex attractions where they occurred, whether acted on or not, to counter monolithic views of heterosexuality. The chapter will finish by outlining a set of tentative characteristics of transgressive sexualities developed by the queer study group in the research, intended as a point of reflection.
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Seal, M. (2019). Transformative Sexualities and Public Pedagogies. In: The Interruption of Heteronormativity in Higher Education. Queer Studies and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19089-7_11
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