HETEROSEXUAL and queer are not mutually exclusive groups or fixed categories. One's sexual practices, tastes, styles, desires, subjectivities, and identifications vary over periods of time, changing even sometimes by the hour. At the same time, teaching and learning can be fuelled by passion, pleasure, pain and desire, sharing these qualities with sex and sexuality. It can be fun, it can be uncomfortable, and at times it gets messy. How is it, then, that social work pedagogy so often compartmentalizes issues of sexuality under the paradigm of a sexual minority oppression model, far removed from the complexities of human sexuality?
I argue that anti-oppressive social work education …