72.056 - Unruly Queers: Interrogating Power in Higher Education Practice, Policy, and Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Despite substantive theoretical and social advancements throughout the field of higher education research and practice over the past twenty years, queer thinking and being in the world still occupies a subordinate positionality. This symposium will proliferate possibilities of and for queerness, both as a way of thinking and being in higher education, by way of our unruliness. Specifically, we will be unruly in our qualitative, quantitative and historical methodologies, uncovering structural genderism and stretching the capaciousness of identity. This symposium engages Renn’s (2010) assertion that “insights to be gained from queered analyses of apparently nonqueer organizations have the potential to move discussions of persistent, intractable problems (e.g., access, equity, diversity, student success) to new solutions” (p. 137).

Sub Unit

• SIG-Queer Studies

Chair

• Edward Brockenbrough, University of Rochester

Papers

• Rigorous Feelings? Disrupting Tropes of Identities in Historical Educational Research - Andrés Castro Samayoa, University of Pennsylvania

• Sexual- and Gender-Minority Individuals in Survey Instruments: A Critical Examination of Demographic Information Collection - Jason C. Garvey, The University of Alabama

• Changing the Frame: Queering Access to Higher Education for Trans* Students - Susan Marine, Merrimack College

• "It's a Hard Line to Walk": Nonbinary Trans* Collegians' Perspectives on Passing, Realness, and Trans*-Normativity - Z Nicolazzo, Northern Illinois University