Non-Normative Gender and Sexual Identities in Schools: - Schools Out

D: That’s pretty bad actually you should have some kind of power over a teacher, just
because you’re…
T: {what throw a chair at her head?!
(laughs)
T: (inaudible)
H: Well it is like harassment and things like that.
AM: Has anyone had experiences were teachers have [//] have been homophobic towards
them?
V: My teachers did jack [//] basically…
AM: {Jack shit?}
V: …yeah I had posters put up in the toilets saying look at the new found dyke is and they
just got took down, nothing was said, even though people admitted and went up to them
and told them who it was, they didn’t do anything because it was easier not to, because
they would have got shot in the head…
{inaudible}
V: …and I also got told my art work was very lesbian, because it was made up of
triangles [//] that was interesting…
T: {seriously?}
AM: By your teachers?
T: {I got off…}
V: …um by the deputy of something…
T: {I got offered to do some body and life art drawing to…}
V: {It’s stupid}
T: …well its great cos my teacher’s a lesbian as well [//] yeah its like, what does that
mean, she went, drawing naked people and I went like I’m getting all my mates can we
all come and she were like yeah you know you’ll be drawing a female, even better.
(inaudible)
V: I had one nice teacher.
AM: Um Ushihu?