Queer superheroes: the impossibility of difference, a neoliberal promise of equal (teacher) love

摘要: This paper troubles the im/possibilities of exploring difference through queer popular culture within teacher education classroom. article locates such pedagogical practice as existing in opposition to dominant neoliberal discourses around marketization higher well queerness mainstream culture, and expectation students that all coursework should be ‘relevant’ marketplace classrooms. In response previous research our own empirical evidence highlights ways which students’ (and courses’) conception ‘relevance’ is not critically theorized either or curricular ways, this problematizes notions a changing ecology Here we argue hopes for challenging normativity spaces can at odds with possibilities devices offer, they are inevitably shaped, informed fore...