ABSTRACT
Critical sexualities literature has established that schools are heteronormative spaces. Conceptually, heteronormativity is not only a noun or a word used to name something. Understanding how heteronormativity is embodied through students' gendered and sexual performances has produced new knowledge of heteronormativity's configurations and scope. This chapter seeks to extend this important work by examining the way heteronormativity inheres and is produced in unexplored dimensions of schooling. It investigates the ways in which sexual meanings are (re)produced through, and at, the intersections of bodies and spaces. The chapter conceptualises the relationships between bodies and space to establish the theoretical foundations for photo analysis undertaken. It analyses a series of photographs to illuminate ways in which heteronormativity is (re)produced and disrupted. In contrast to a history of educational research which takes gay, lesbian and bisexual students and their experiences of discrimination as the sole object of investigation, the chapter works 'queerly'.
