The Table at Berkeley: An Ethnodrama Recounting the Experiences of Bisexual Faculty and Staff Navigating the Workplace

Abstract

As a workplace, Higher Education has long been spatially socialized as a heteronormative with counter spaces (LGBTQ resource centers) in which assumptions about an individual's sexuality have been assumed as heterosexual or gay/lesbian pushing mononormativity. This study focused on the narratives of six bisexual faculty and staff to uncover how mononormativity is (re)produced in the workplace. We analyze the ways in which bisexual faculty and staff experience an unevenness of power in communicating their bi identity. We drew on Lefebvre's (1991) theory to understand how the social workplace is sexualized presenting our findings through an ethnodrama.

Citation

Kakooza, M. and Robinson, S. (2023), "The Table at Berkeley: An Ethnodrama Recounting the Experiences of Bisexual Faculty and Staff Navigating the Workplace", Jean-Marie, G. and Tran, H. (Ed.) Leadership in Turbulent Times (Studies in Educational Administration), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 83-96. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-494-420231006