Celebrating 15 Years of "Making Space": Reflections and New Trajectories of Race, Sexuality, and Justice in Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In 2010, Lance McCready, published Making Space for Diverse Masculinities: Difference, Intersectionality, and Engagement in an Urban High School. This groundbreaking work was one of the first to illuminate the ways gay and gender non-conforming Black boys navigate schools.. The text in theorizing the ways “multiple forces of marginalization, discrimination, and/or oppression affect gay and gender nonconforming black male youth,” laid the groundwork for important policy considerations and initiated conversations and scholarship that takes seriously the lived experiences of Black youth at the intersections of gender and sexuality. Symposium participants will reflect on the legacy of this work, illuminating new questions and possibilities necessary to create just education for Black queer youth.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Queer Studies

Chair

• Durell M. Callier, University of Delaware

Papers

• Embracing “Queer”: A Confession #thanksLance - Judy A. Alston, Miami University (OH)

• Methodologies for Understanding Expansive Notions of Masculinity - Mollie V. Blackburn, The Ohio State University; Joselyn Parker, The Ohio State University

• Creating Community by Making Space: A Genealogy of Queer of Color Analysis in Education - Ed Brockenbrough, University of Pennsylvania

• Seeing & Believing: Celebrating Legacies of BlackQueer World Making & Survival - Durell M. Callier, University of Delaware; Dominique C. Hill, Colgate University

• Making Space for Queer of Color Analysis - Roland Sintos Coloma, Wayne State University

Discussant

• Lance Trevor McCready, University of Toronto - OISE