Blog 10-A01-Pahnia Vang

In the article, it proves to serve two purposes: examining sexuality in Asian American faith communities and exploring appropriate strategies for teaching sexuality in religious education. The area of sexuality is a taboo topic in which Lee mentions that through invisibility and silence, the attitudes within Asian American community brings on shame, separation, homophobia, and fixed gender roles. I personally think that sexuality itself is still a taboo even within today’s generation. If you come from a family that is rooted in traditional values and beliefs believing that to be anything but different from the normative structure, problems will arise. Coming from an Asian family especially with high influence of the older generation values and beliefs will obviously breakdown the central core of what was once balanced. I would consider my own family traditional such that they still practice the old Hmong religion and culture such that it is necessary to incorporate that into my siblings and onto the next generation. It doesn’t allow for conversation on sexuality nor even allow room for it.

Question: In what ways have you challenged the norms of sexuality? How do you know that you have acquired change?

Lee, Boyung. "Teaching Justice and Living Peace: Body, Sexuality, and Religious Education in Asian-American Communities 1." Religious Education 101.3 (2006): 402-19. Web


http://www.visibilityproject.org/article-in-the-apogee-journal/