‘Laughing ourselves out of the closet’: comedy as a queer pedagogical form

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dc.contributor.authorHenry, Seánen
dc.contributor.authorBryan, Audreyen
dc.contributor.authorNeary, Aoifeen
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-06T13:51:00Z
dc.date.available2025-06-06T13:51:00Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores comedy as a queer pedagogical form that subverts problematic representational tropes of queerness pervading mainstream depictions of queer experience. Articulating ‘form’ less as a fixed arrangement of characters, images, objects, and ideas, and more as a kind of formation that positions these in dynamic relation to the wider context in which comedies are encountered, we mobilise the idea of queer pedagogical forms to capture how comedy can foster new modes of thinking about and embodying queerness for, and with, audiences. Drawing on specific examples from Schitt’s Creek and Derry Girls, we document the potential of specific comedic modalities (e.g. irony, sarcasm, irreverence, and slapstick) to foster alternative representations of queerness, in which normative tropes are poked fun at, problematised, and reimagined. Through these examples, we demonstrate how comedies can enable us to ‘laugh ourselves out of the closets’ we live by, feel, navigate, and embody.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationHenry, S., Bryan, A. and Neary, A. (2023) ‘Laughing ourselves out of the closet’: comedy as a queer pedagogical form', Ethics and Education, 18(1), pp.151-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449642.2023.2188744en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17449642.2023.2188744en
dc.identifier.endpage166en
dc.identifier.issn17449642en
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journaltitleEthics and Educationen
dc.identifier.startpage151en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17620
dc.identifier.volume18
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.rights© 2023, The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativesLicense (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduc-tion in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectComedyen
dc.subjectHeteronormativityen
dc.subjectHumouren
dc.subjectLaughteren
dc.subjectPedagogyen
dc.subjectQueeren
dc.subject~Education - Journal Articles~en
dc.title‘Laughing ourselves out of the closet’: comedy as a queer pedagogical formen
dc.typeArticle (peer reviewed)en
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