Boni Wozolek
Biographic Data
| ID | 298338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boni Wozolek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boni |
| FAMILY NAME | Wozolek |
| SIGNATURE | WOZOLEK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4226-1439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cishetero Sucker Punches
Foregrounding the narrative of a trans youth in a conservative area of the United States, this article explores how the theoretical and practical implications enmeshed in sonic ethnographic work and curriculum theorizing are in relation to what the author calls critical consent curricula. The author argues that these curricula should be embedded across systems of schooling and are but one way to interrupt educational necropolitics that pervade ev…
Silence is still violence
This article calls for educators to think about what it might mean to listen deeply and to think critically to sounds and silences as they exist as a form of curriculum in their classrooms, in the corridors of schools, and across the broader school community. The author argues that by attending to what one learns through the reverberations that compose sounds and silences in schools, educators can engage in a form of critical allyship or, as poss…
Sound Traumas
OUNDS CONVEY IMPORTANT INFORMATION about our worlds through an inseparable combination of what we, through European sensibilities, often call pitch, rhythm, and haptics.How we interpret that information and our understandings of sonic information are always at the level of perception, always a combination of personal experiences and sociocultural norms and values.I (Walter) remember being so excited as a young person when I understood that human …
Critical Consent Curriculum
Thinking at the intersections of curriculum theory and sound studies, this article explores what the author has named a “critical consent curriculum.” This paper traces the many reverberations of sociopolitical and cultural norms that not only devalue consent as a critical part of schooling, but how the absence of such dialogues in teacher education programs and schools has, in many ways, normalized the milieu of nonconsensual relations and relat…
Mai
Using grief as a node of beginning, this paper considers how all qualitative writing is an intra-action through which the process of engaging with one’s memory, remembering, and collective memory co-constitutes subjectivities and agency within and across the writing process. Therefore, this paper argues that through writing qualitatively, both the author, as well as broader sociopolitical norms and values be and become in ways that are worth our …
Educational Necropolitics
A nice white lady”
Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS) can be a significant tool to dismantle white supremacy in educational contexts. However, the authors argue that without attending to the forms of curriculum as they are entangled across systems of schooling, CWS can reinscribe the very forms of whiteness it seeks to disrupt. Identifying as a queer, Brown assistant professor of education and a Black undergraduate student who recently finished her studies, this pape…
Curricula of oppressions
Troubling longstanding histories of teaching elementary school with an asexual approach for fear of children losing their innocence, this paper argues that schools and teacher preparation programs should be explicit about the inclusion of LGBTQ + voices and perspectives from early childhood forward. Using a narrative inquiry study that foreground the experiences of a 19-year-old college student reflecting on queer-bias at an early age and the exh…
Mapping the contours of queer battle fatigue in educational contexts
This paper traces the contours of queer battle fatigue as it relates to educational research
It's not fiction, it's my life
This article argues that chosen family structures are critical for LGBTQ+ youth of color. Further, it articulates the inherent sense of agency that is found in choosing a family-something that not only shapes young ways of being, knowing, and doing but impacts their ability to resist toxic cultural norms that all too often position students for the school-to-prison and school-to-coffin pipelines. Finally, this article argues that schools should a…
An Invitation
This short article provides guidance and offers and invitation to anyone interested in submitting articles to the Cultural Studies and Curriculum section of JCT
Assemblages of Violence in Education
Assemblages of Violence in Education
Assemblages of Violence: Everyday Trajectories of Oppression brings together fields including new materialisms, anthropology, curriculum theory, and educational foundations to examine how violence is intertwined with everyday events and ideas. Artfully weaving participant narratives in two contexts that exist a literal world apart—queer middle school youth of color in an urban context and Indian women who have survived domestic violence—Assemblag…
Hidden Curriculum of Violence
Grounded in two collaborative interpretive studies—one with women in India who were survivors of domestic violence, and another with queer youth and youth of color in the Midwest who were survivors of sexual assault—this paper argues that there is a hidden curriculum of violence. This curriculum of violence can be traced through affective resonances that exist within an assemblage of violence. Powerfully enacted on the bodies of women and girls a…
The Queer Love Project
Research Article| April 01 2020 The Queer Love Project: AESA, Fatigue, and Building the Body of an Organization Boni Wozolek; Boni Wozolek Boni Wozolek is currently an assistant professor of education at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work considers questions of equity and access at the intersections of race, sexual orientations, and gender with its multiple expressions and identities. Dr. Wozolek serves on the executive council of …
Mothering redoux
This sonic narrative builds off of audio files collected by the author that exemplify the author's experience through the sounds of parenting an infant. Upon analyzing the files themselves along with the experience of capturing particular moments, the author argues that mothering is often characterized by sheer joy that lives with a constant and consistant undercurrent of socioculturally driven senses of shame. This paper argues that shame can be…
Gaslighting queerness
Gaslighting is often discussed as an intentional set of interactions that are designed to leave the victim question her own sense of self and sanity. Through an autoethnographic counternarrative, this article argues that queerness is gaslit through schooling as both a process that is continually carried out and a product that is socioculturally constructed. Under this framing, the author explores the multiplicities of space that facilitate gaslig…
The Mothership Connection
In 8100 Again
In this article, the author uses the sounds of schooling to explore LGBTQ youth experiences as they relate to self-harm and suicide. Although sounds-as-voice and representation is a well-trodden path in scholarly conversations, the author centers her argument on the significance of sounds in the daily lives of LGBTQ students. This is significant as literature predominantly focuses on the signs of suicide as physical and visual rather than residin…
The School-to-Coffin Pipeline
Written from the perspectives of a tenured high school teacher/researcher, an out bisexual sophomore, and a transgender senior, this article discusses the challenges of being and becoming an out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ) student in a large, Midwestern high school. Through counternarratives, the authors explore what they call the school-to-coffin pipeline, a system that (un)intentionally positions LGBTQ teens in what…
The School-to-Coffin Pipeline
Written from the perspectives of a tenured high school teacher/researcher, an out bisexual sophomore, and a transgender senior, this article discusses the challenges of being and becoming an out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ) student in a large, Midwestern high school. Through counternarratives, the authors explore what they call the school-to-coffin pipeline, a system that (un)intentionally positions LGBTQ teens in what…
In 8100 Again
In this article, the author uses the sounds of schooling to explore LGBTQ youth experiences as they relate to self-harm and suicide. Although sounds-as-voice and representation is a well-trodden path in scholarly conversations, the author centers her argument on the significance of sounds in the daily lives of LGBTQ students. This is significant as literature predominantly focuses on the signs of suicide as physical and visual rather than residin…
Gaslighting queerness
Gaslighting is often discussed as an intentional set of interactions that are designed to leave the victim question her own sense of self and sanity. Through an autoethnographic counternarrative, this article argues that queerness is gaslit through schooling as both a process that is continually carried out and a product that is socioculturally constructed. Under this framing, the author explores the multiplicities of space that facilitate gaslig…
Hidden Curriculum of Violence
Grounded in two collaborative interpretive studies—one with women in India who were survivors of domestic violence, and another with queer youth and youth of color in the Midwest who were survivors of sexual assault—this paper argues that there is a hidden curriculum of violence. This curriculum of violence can be traced through affective resonances that exist within an assemblage of violence. Powerfully enacted on the bodies of women and girls a…
The Mothership Connection
Mapping the contours of queer battle fatigue in educational contexts
This paper traces the contours of queer battle fatigue as it relates to educational research
The Queer Love Project
Research Article| April 01 2020 The Queer Love Project: AESA, Fatigue, and Building the Body of an Organization Boni Wozolek; Boni Wozolek Boni Wozolek is currently an assistant professor of education at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work considers questions of equity and access at the intersections of race, sexual orientations, and gender with its multiple expressions and identities. Dr. Wozolek serves on the executive council of …
Mothering redoux
This sonic narrative builds off of audio files collected by the author that exemplify the author's experience through the sounds of parenting an infant. Upon analyzing the files themselves along with the experience of capturing particular moments, the author argues that mothering is often characterized by sheer joy that lives with a constant and consistant undercurrent of socioculturally driven senses of shame. This paper argues that shame can be…
The School-to-Coffin Pipeline
Written from the perspectives of a tenured high school teacher/researcher, an out bisexual sophomore, and a transgender senior, this article discusses the challenges of being and becoming an out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ) student in a large, Midwestern high school. Through counternarratives, the authors explore what they call the school-to-coffin pipeline, a system that (un)intentionally positions LGBTQ teens in what…
Gaslighting queerness
Gaslighting is often discussed as an intentional set of interactions that are designed to leave the victim question her own sense of self and sanity. Through an autoethnographic counternarrative, this article argues that queerness is gaslit through schooling as both a process that is continually carried out and a product that is socioculturally constructed. Under this framing, the author explores the multiplicities of space that facilitate gaslig…
The Mothership Connection
In 8100 Again
In this article, the author uses the sounds of schooling to explore LGBTQ youth experiences as they relate to self-harm and suicide. Although sounds-as-voice and representation is a well-trodden path in scholarly conversations, the author centers her argument on the significance of sounds in the daily lives of LGBTQ students. This is significant as literature predominantly focuses on the signs of suicide as physical and visual rather than residin…
Mothering redoux
This sonic narrative builds off of audio files collected by the author that exemplify the author's experience through the sounds of parenting an infant. Upon analyzing the files themselves along with the experience of capturing particular moments, the author argues that mothering is often characterized by sheer joy that lives with a constant and consistant undercurrent of socioculturally driven senses of shame. This paper argues that shame can be…
An Invitation
This short article provides guidance and offers and invitation to anyone interested in submitting articles to the Cultural Studies and Curriculum section of JCT
Assemblages of Violence in Education
Assemblages of Violence in Education
Assemblages of Violence: Everyday Trajectories of Oppression brings together fields including new materialisms, anthropology, curriculum theory, and educational foundations to examine how violence is intertwined with everyday events and ideas. Artfully weaving participant narratives in two contexts that exist a literal world apart—queer middle school youth of color in an urban context and Indian women who have survived domestic violence—Assemblag…
Hidden Curriculum of Violence
Grounded in two collaborative interpretive studies—one with women in India who were survivors of domestic violence, and another with queer youth and youth of color in the Midwest who were survivors of sexual assault—this paper argues that there is a hidden curriculum of violence. This curriculum of violence can be traced through affective resonances that exist within an assemblage of violence. Powerfully enacted on the bodies of women and girls a…
The Queer Love Project
Research Article| April 01 2020 The Queer Love Project: AESA, Fatigue, and Building the Body of an Organization Boni Wozolek; Boni Wozolek Boni Wozolek is currently an assistant professor of education at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work considers questions of equity and access at the intersections of race, sexual orientations, and gender with its multiple expressions and identities. Dr. Wozolek serves on the executive council of …
It's not fiction, it's my life
This article argues that chosen family structures are critical for LGBTQ+ youth of color. Further, it articulates the inherent sense of agency that is found in choosing a family-something that not only shapes young ways of being, knowing, and doing but impacts their ability to resist toxic cultural norms that all too often position students for the school-to-prison and school-to-coffin pipelines. Finally, this article argues that schools should a…
A nice white lady”
Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS) can be a significant tool to dismantle white supremacy in educational contexts. However, the authors argue that without attending to the forms of curriculum as they are entangled across systems of schooling, CWS can reinscribe the very forms of whiteness it seeks to disrupt. Identifying as a queer, Brown assistant professor of education and a Black undergraduate student who recently finished her studies, this pape…
Curricula of oppressions
Troubling longstanding histories of teaching elementary school with an asexual approach for fear of children losing their innocence, this paper argues that schools and teacher preparation programs should be explicit about the inclusion of LGBTQ + voices and perspectives from early childhood forward. Using a narrative inquiry study that foreground the experiences of a 19-year-old college student reflecting on queer-bias at an early age and the exh…
Mapping the contours of queer battle fatigue in educational contexts
This paper traces the contours of queer battle fatigue as it relates to educational research
Educational Necropolitics
Sound Traumas
OUNDS CONVEY IMPORTANT INFORMATION about our worlds through an inseparable combination of what we, through European sensibilities, often call pitch, rhythm, and haptics.How we interpret that information and our understandings of sonic information are always at the level of perception, always a combination of personal experiences and sociocultural norms and values.I (Walter) remember being so excited as a young person when I understood that human …
Critical Consent Curriculum
Thinking at the intersections of curriculum theory and sound studies, this article explores what the author has named a “critical consent curriculum.” This paper traces the many reverberations of sociopolitical and cultural norms that not only devalue consent as a critical part of schooling, but how the absence of such dialogues in teacher education programs and schools has, in many ways, normalized the milieu of nonconsensual relations and relat…
Mai
Using grief as a node of beginning, this paper considers how all qualitative writing is an intra-action through which the process of engaging with one’s memory, remembering, and collective memory co-constitutes subjectivities and agency within and across the writing process. Therefore, this paper argues that through writing qualitatively, both the author, as well as broader sociopolitical norms and values be and become in ways that are worth our …
Cishetero Sucker Punches
Foregrounding the narrative of a trans youth in a conservative area of the United States, this article explores how the theoretical and practical implications enmeshed in sonic ethnographic work and curriculum theorizing are in relation to what the author calls critical consent curricula. The author argues that these curricula should be embedded across systems of schooling and are but one way to interrupt educational necropolitics that pervade ev…
Silence is still violence
This article calls for educators to think about what it might mean to listen deeply and to think critically to sounds and silences as they exist as a form of curriculum in their classrooms, in the corridors of schools, and across the broader school community. The author argues that by attending to what one learns through the reverberations that compose sounds and silences in schools, educators can engage in a form of critical allyship or, as poss…
Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Curriculum (5 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (5 works) · Narrative (5 works)