Abstract

This is the research paper accompaniment to the heuristic arts-based research performance titled: I Don’t Relate: Performing Sexuality in the Classroom. The performance and accompanying research paper are a personal experience of how I perform my own sexuality in the classroom, and responded to the performed sexuality of those around me. This paper consists of a literature review that discusses themes of gender, performance, how we talk about our sexuality in public spaces, and self-disclosure. I discuss in depth my research methodology, the phases of my own heuristic process, how I collected my data, the script for the piece, and what I found to be a surprising and illuminating conclusion I came to in the last steps of creating my final performance.