Session Summary
Share...

Direct link:

Disrupting the Mythology of Bias-Based Bullying: Queer Kids and Social Violence

Sun, April 27, 11:40am to 1:10pm MDT (11:40am to 1:10pm MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2D

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Authors in this symposium critique and confront mainstream bullying discourse, which is the dominant paradigm for repairing LGBTQ youth experiences of victimization and school exclusion. Through research on how bullying shapes policy and practice in the UK, Australia, and USA, the authors demonstrate that this discourse fails to encompass the diversity and complexity of queer youth school experiences, or account for the how and why bias-based aggression occurs. Authors illustrate the dangers of reductive approaches to creating safer schools, particularly in current contexts of rising bias-based bullying and threats to queer inclusive K-12 policies and practices. Writers offer strategies and opportunities to engage with queer youth in ways that are humanizing and have more realistic potential for counteracting discriminatory policies.

Sub Unit

Chair

Papers

Discussant