This paper describes the creation, curriculum and pedagogy of a postgraduate course on difference issues in education. Courses on queer pedagogies and feminist education were combined into a new course that examined frameworks for “difference and diversity” across issues of gender / sexualities/ cultures /ethnicities and disability. There was debate about using the word “queer” in the title. Some students had doubts about the inclusion of sexuality in a diversity course. A queering of dominant cultural perspectives on diversity was done by organising the course around disrupting dualisms, with homage to feminist and Foucauldian critiques of normalization. Common strategies in the struggles for rights were highlighted. Rather than focus on identity politics, intersections of group membership were emphasised in reader-positioning exercises. My reflections are supplemented with comments from students who responded to an e-mail questionnaire. At the end of the paper, questions are raised about unforeseen, contradictory effects of the focus on difference. Launching the course from multiple, mutable starting-points might take its project further in future.