Facts, fictions, identity constrictions: Sexuality, gender and class in higher education

Abstract

In this piece I aim to provide some personal, professional and, at times, provocative insights into the negotiation of identities within higher education. I seek to combine classed, gendered and sexual identities and inequalities as significant to the experience of university. Many feminist writers have pointed to the structuring of education as it solidifies, rather than challenges, social divisions. In referencing such scholarly research, and in combining this with personal positioning and tension, I seek to highlight the complexities of ‘coming out’ in relation sexuality, gender and class, where the constrictions of academia often means that there is little space to do so.

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