Revisualizing Resistance: Queer Youth Film and Pedagogical Engagement

• In Event: Roundtable Session 79
  In Roundtable Session: Culturally Responsive Schooling

Abstract

This study considers the processes and implications of youth media production and the ramifications of interventionist pedagogies that engage students using alternative media based formats. Such formats include youth-authored films and short-form media that narrate their various experiences as queer and allied youth. The focus of this study is a critical examination of the pedagogies developed by the Out in Schools Program, and the youth-authored films produced as part of their outreach initiatives. This AERA presentation will weave clips from youth produced film created with OIS and/or presented in their facilitations with youth and researcher analyses of anti homophobia and anti-heternormative pedagogies and filmmaking.

Author

• Lori B. Macintosh, The University of British Columbia