Teaching as transgression

Abstract

This chapter employed meta-autoethnography to interrogate how the fields of sport and exercise psychology, kinesiology, and physical education reinforce, reproduce, and normalize weightist, ableist, white, gendered constructions of the body. Meta-autoethnography, a methodology where the researcher revisits their previous autoethnography(ies), allows researchers to reflect upon their personal experiences to critique positionality and social structures and theorize about everyday life. This meta-autoethnography questions what knowledges matter and identifies ways that sexism, racism, and ableism manifest within kinesiology and related fields. Furthermore, it encourages readers to challenge what students learn about brown, female, disabled/differently able, and fat bodies. The chapter calls for professionals in sport and exercise psychology, kinesiology, and physical education to “train their inner eyes” to see brown, female, disabled, and fat bodies differently and to help their students and clients train their inner eyes too. By training the inner eyes thusly, those fields can include and embrace a wider range of bodies and individuals.