Document Type
Journal Article
Abstract
It appears that being young and queer seems to be all about woundedness: it means experiencing suffering, including the risk of suicide, increased drug use, homelessness and violence. Yet how are these wounded truths told, and further, why is it that people in education seem to tell them "unproblematically"? This paper considers these questions by analysing wounded truth telling in the recent debate over the Western Australia Lesbian and Gay Law Reform Bill. Using Foucault's (2001) discussion of Greek parrhesia (truth telling), the Western Australian debate is analysed in terms of its problematisation of wounded truth telling. Questions are raised regarding the implications of unproblematised educational practices that engage in the telling of wounded truths.
ANZSRC / FoR Code
2002 CULTURAL STUDIES
Publication Details
Harwood, V. (2004). Telling truths: Wounded truths and the activity of truth telling. Discourse, Studies in the Cultural Politics of Schooling, 24 (4), 467-476.