Going Along with Trans, Queer, and Non-Binary Youth

• In Event: Interrogating Queer and Trans Studies in Education: Inquiries, Interruptions, Innovations

Abstract

This paper focuses on a series of mobile interviews—or "go-alongs"—with 11 transgender, queer, and non-binary youth to examine the everyday ways they navigated and made their lives in New York City. By using detailed narrative descriptions, it shifts methodological attention to those parts of scholarly studies that often get left on the cutting room floor. It foregrounds process, not just findings, reflecting on the complexities of embodying the position of researcher and what it was like to do research with youth. The paper highlights how young people express knowledge about their worlds and their understandings of race, gender, sexuality, class, and age and how we make sense of their quotidian subjectivity and agency.

Author

• Sam Stiegler, University of Melbourne