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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Educ.
Sec. STEM Education
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1442806

Identifying Queer Discourses and Navigational Strategies in Mathematics for Undergraduate STEM Students

Provisionally accepted
Matthew Voigt Matthew Voigt *
  • Clemson University, Clemson, United States

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    Using phenomenology, this article identifies seven Queer discourses and navigational strategies in mathematics based on individual interviews with 17 Queer STEM students. The most prevalent discourses cast Queer identity as being irrelevant (erasure), unseen (heteronormative), or discriminated against (marginalized) in mathematics. At the same time there were some beliefs that Queer identity acceptance was unknown (ambiguous) was treated equally (normalized) or was accepted and even valued in math. Key findings from the study help theory build an exclusionirrelevancy space to network together mathematical discourses and highlight how Queer marginalization is acted upon based on notions of rightful presence and not mathematical success.

    Keywords: queer, stem, LGBTQQIP2SA+, Discourses, Math Identity Queer, LGBTQ, Math identity, discourse

    Received: 03 Jun 2024; Accepted: 11 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Voigt. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Matthew Voigt, Clemson University, Clemson, United States

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