ABSTRACT

This chapter is experimental in that it breaks with analytic traditions of sexualities research in schools by drawing upon the work of feminist theoretical physicist and philosopher Karen Barad. It reconfigures the way in which people might think about how sexuality comes into being at school. In this sense, it is concerned with sexuality's ontology and interrupting what has been characterised within new material feminisms as its anthropocentric focus. Anthropocentricism is a frame of thought that centres humans and human meaning-making as the sole constitutive force of our world. It places humans above other matter in reality, creating a hierarchy in which humans reign supreme. The chapter attempts to be less about fathoming what sexuality at school means and more a methodological experiment in how sexuality becomes. The collapse of a distinction between human and object occurs because of the repetition of subject and object in the image.