Constructing Educational Possibilities in Queer Literacy Research Through Intergenerational Co-Creation

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 7:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Exploring Transformative Literacy Practices Across Educational and Community Spaces (Table 17)

Abstract

This presentation revisits the co-creation of a 45-minute film produced with middle school students in response to Kirstin Cronn-Mills’s (2012) young adult novel, Beautiful Music for Ugly Children. Drawing on scholars in queer and trans epistemologies, pedagogies, and methodologies (Airton, 2014; Alexander, 2019; Campbell & Farrier, 2015; Author 1, 2022; Keenan, 2022; Munoz, 2009), and literacy scholars (Blackburn, 2003; Janks, 2010; Wargo, 2018) we trace how students’ participation in the process of co-creating this film mapped their inquiries into gender identity and representation and our own attempts to horizontalize teaching and research.

Authors

• Rob Simon, University of Toronto

• Pamela Baer, University of Toronto

• Ty Walkland, University of Toronto