ASA2
Section A01
11/22/2015
Week #10
Boyung Lee brings up the issue of sexuality in Asian American faith communities and its lack thereof in religious education and discourse. Lee analyzes the topic at its current state of discussion while trying to demystify and shed light onto the subject. In initial review on the subject of sexuality, Lee brings up the different types of curricula, focusing specifically on null curriculum and its relevance to sexuality. In this sense, I can relate this type of curriculum to how certain topics in higher education, especially in universities, are ignored or thought of as taboo in comparison to STEM subjects. Therefore, because of this way of thinking and avoidance, many see cultural studies and different categories of identity courses as too radical or unnecessary. Its lack of influence and importance has created a negative predisposition of these topics without even having taken the course firsthand. This "invisibility and silence" creates an negative orientation to the topics of sexuality and homophobia, all of which could've had a different outcome had they been discussed as openly and publicly as explicit curriculum. I believe that the topic of sexuality and gender roles should be embraced alongside ethnic and racial identity and shouldn't be put in the back burner in education. As seen from the different cases in the article, we shouldn't accept the fact of a normative ideal and Asian Americans should integrate the null discourse of sexuality with an open mind and minimized separation.
In what ways can Asian Americans and educational systems integrate the sexuality discourse while bringing it out of the null curriculum?
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| "Minh Tran of Westminster holds a sign and gay pride flag as he protests the exclusion of LGBT groups from the Tet parade in Little Saigon" |
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