Queering Rural Literacies (Poster 5)

• In Event: Division G Vice President Graduate Student/Early Career Scholar Poster Session

Abstract

This poster showcases a conceptual framework for queering rural literacies educational research to remedy queer- and transphobic harm. It draws upon Ahmed’s (2006) theory of orientations and the concepts of scripts of schooling (Keenan, 2017; Ladson-Billings, 1998) and rural literacies (Corbett & Donehower, 2017) to interrogate the orientations of rural English Language Arts classrooms and their effects on LGBTQIA2S+ students. Centering the experiences of rural queer and transgender students disturbs the cisheteronormative, white supremacist orientations of American schooling, creating possibilities for reorientations toward LGBTQIA2S+-affirming pedagogies and practices. This poster details and synthesizes each concept and offers implications for research.

Author

• Josh Thompson, Virginia Tech