#donttagyourhate: Sexual Subjectivities, Writing as Reparation, and the On-/Off-Line Queer Politics of Everyday Life

• In Event: Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: LGBT Perspectives and Experiences in Education

Abstract

Issues of space and place are critical to analyzing and researching the multiple sociocultural and sociopolitical contexts of education for LGBTQ youth. This paper reports on how youth who identify as LGBT and/or queer navigated identities of difference and gender (in)equality through their encounters with community literacies. Grounded in answering the question, how, if at all, do contexts of place (e.g., an out-of-school program, a gay straight alliance, a digital microblogging platform) map out and/or position queer identities of difference across space, this study argues that youth seek out, construct, and sustain queer oriented writing collectives wherein they create communities of youth activism. Ultimately, writing is seen as an ontological practice of reparation and resistance wherein youth #donttag their hate.

Author

• Jon Michael Wargo, Michigan State University