Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0001-7291-5056
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2001
Abstract
“Negotiating Academic and Personal Selves” is Chapter 4 of the book Between Gay and Straight: Understanding Friendship Across Sexual Orientation (AltaMira Press, 2001). Here I show how my relationships with the gay men of my research community alter how I position myself in graduate courses, how I practice research, how I write, and how I teach my classes. As a student, I delve into new projects on sexual orientation and identity; as an instructor, I alter course reading lists, assignments, and activities. This chapter also moves through my increasingly problematic encounters with associates who identify as heterosexual. My new consciousness makes me impatient for my straight associates to raise their consciousness.
Published In
Tillmann-Healy, L. M. (2001). Between Gay and Straight: Understanding Friendship Across Sexual Orientation. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Publication Title
Between Gay and Straight: Understanding Friendship Across Sexual Orientation [book]
ISSN
0759101116
Included in
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