Beyond Bullying: New Stories of Queer Sexuality in Schools

• In Event: 33.068 - Narrating Queer Sexualities in Research and Education

Abstract

Sociologists and education scholars argue that talk and practice about bullying and anti-bullying efforts in U.S. schools helps produce school climates where queerness is only recognized in the context of bodily harm, threat, and as objects of health interventions. Utilizing a story-telling project, the authors will examine what happens when broader understandings of LGBTQ sexualities and lives are welcomed in the very culture of schools.

Authors

• Jen Gilbert, York University

• Jessica Fields, San Francisco State University

• Laura Mamo

• Nancy L. Lesko, Teachers College, Columbia University