Making a good Victoria Sponge cake: Schooling Empire, class, gender and sexuality

Abstract

How do we communicate our work to our students and our friends who don't speak in the same academic tongues as we do? Using critical personal narrative, and a nice Homely metaphor, rather than poststructuralese, I explain what happens to a body in education, and how power works to produce it, say, as white, Imperial1, middle class and heterosexual. Alternating temporal frames, I tell the counter history of doing my (body's) counterhistory. I encourage you, my reader to settle in, get comfortable, make a cup of tea, and as we counter‐read/write, I hope we will come to understand my/our (counter) stories.