Heteronormative higher education: challenging this status quo through LGBTIQ awareness-raising

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dc.contributor.authorMatthyse, Glenton
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-28T14:01:34Z
dc.date.available2017-07-28T14:01:34Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis article focus on the challenges homophobia and transphobia pose to LGBTIQ students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), a historically black peri-urban university located on the margins of Cape Town. Both the geographical location as well as the internal environment of the university give rise to various challenges for LGBTIQ identifying, and particularly gender non-conforming, students around their sexual freedom and self-affirmation. In transcending the vacuum between the challenges faced by these students and the existing human rights discourse on non-normative sexual orientations and gender identities, the Gender Equity Unit, through its student-driven LGBTIQ programme LoudEnuf, its support staff and in collaboration with the student structure GaylaUWC has been educating and sensitising the campus community through its intersectional awareness-raising initiatives. This article focuses on the effectiveness of awareness-raising in creating a welcoming, comfortable, liberating and safe campus for LGBTIQ students to access comprehensive quality education.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMatthyse, G. (2017). Heteronormative higher education: challenging this status quo through LGBTIQ awareness-raising. South African Journal of Higher Education, 31(4): 112-126en_US
dc.identifier.issn1753-5913
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3116
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.20853/31-4-890
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherStellenbosch Universityen_US
dc.rightsSouth African Journal of Higher Education is an Open Access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, as underwritten by the license CC BY NC ND 4.0, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectUniversityen_US
dc.subjectLGBTIQen_US
dc.subjectSupport staffen_US
dc.subjectAwarenessen_US
dc.titleHeteronormative higher education: challenging this status quo through LGBTIQ awareness-raisingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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