Future Directions in Queer of Color Scholarship Across Educational Settings

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium interrogates whiteness and anti-Blackness in education that shape knowledge production, institutional practices, and identity formation specific to queer and trans people of color (QTPOC). Conceptual and methodological perspectives across the symposium’s five papers collectively seek to advance the queer of color research agenda to dismantle interlocking systems of racism, white supremacy, and cis-heteropatriarchy in P-12 and higher education. In alignment with the 2021 Annual Meeting theme, this interdisciplinary symposium is a forum for “accepting educational responsibility” to transform scholarship and pedagogical practices that affirm QTPOCs’ lived experiences, ways of knowing, and full humanities in educational spaces. The symposium addresses implications for the future of P-16 queer of color educational research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Queer Studies

Chair

• Antonio Duran, Florida International University

Papers

• Using Queer of Color Analysis in Educational Research to Interrupt and Transform - Lance Trevor McCready, University of Toronto

• Blackqueer Practices of Survival: Black Lesbian Poetry as Educative Possibilities for Black Mattering - Dominique C. Hill, Colgate University; Durell M. Callier, Miami University

• A Black Queer and Trans Theory Approach to Troubling Inclusion, Best Practices, and LGBTQ Research - Romeo Jackson

• Queer Black and Latinx Men's Counterstories of Undergraduate STEM Education as a White, Cis-Heteropatriarchal Space - Luis Antonio Leyva, Vanderbilt University; Taylor McNeill, Vanderbilt University; Zander Alley, Vanderbilt University; Oscar Guzman, Vanderbilt University; Virginia Elizabeth King, University of Georgia

Discussant

• Edward Brockenbrough, University of Pennsylvania