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Queer Intersectional Outreach Actions to Prevent LGBTQ+ Prejudice and Discrimination in Schools: The Brazilian Context and Analysis of a Local Experience

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This chapter describes and analyzes “queer intersectional outreach work” aiming to prevent and fight prejudice and discrimination against LGBTQ+ students in Brazil. To do so, the first section of this chapter introduces a brief history of education on sexuality and gender diversity in Brazil, as it was under the development of sexual education policies that queer intersectional outreach work emerged. The second part of this chapter describes queer intersectional outreach work carried out by graduate and undergraduate students and supervised by faculty members of our research group. This work was mostly conducted in public schools in the city of Porto Alegre, in the South of Brazil, and the activities discussed here were conducted exclusively in the public school system. Our experience taught us that in extremely unequal societies like Brazil, intersectional framing is crucial to the planning and analysis of outreach actions/work.

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  1. Social Psychology Department, Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Henrique Caetano Nardi

  2. Instituto Federal Catarinense, Videira, Brazil

    Eliana Quartiero

  3. Religious Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Manoela Carpenedo Rodrigues

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  3. Gender Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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Nardi, H.C., Quartiero, E., Rodrigues, M.C. (2020). Queer Intersectional Outreach Actions to Prevent LGBTQ+ Prejudice and Discrimination in Schools: The Brazilian Context and Analysis of a Local Experience. In: Francis, D., Kjaran, J., Lehtonen, J. (eds) Queer Social Movements and Outreach Work in Schools. Queer Studies and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41610-2_8

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