58.076 - From Verbal Aggression to Physical Violence: LGBTQI Experiences, Everyday Oppression, and Queer Battle Fatigue

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel explores “Queer Battle Fatigue” (QBF): the personal and sociocultural effects and affects of everyday aggressions and violence that face LGBTQI people, communities and their allies in their daily fight to simply “be” in the world. In so doing, we press at the boundaries of intersectionality and assemblages of queer theory in relation other sociocultural precepts (e.g., race, ability, home language, and class). Papers explore possibilities for employing QBF ranging from the ever increasing suicide rate among queer youth to the range of violence against LGBTQI people, from events in Orlando to those around the globe.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Queer Studies

Chair

• Boni Wozolek, Loyola University Maryland

Papers

• Suicide Notes Written in Homeroom: From Queer Battle Fatigue to the School-to-Coffin Pipeline - Boni Wozolek, Loyola University Maryland

• On Cruel Optimism and the Struggles of LGBT Organizing - Roland Sintos Coloma, Northern Kentucky University

• "Great Course, but You Didn't Talk About Sexuality Enough!" Queer Battle Fatigue Meets Queer Affirmation - Lee Airton, Queen's University

• Tending Toward Friendship: LGBTQ Sexualities in School - Jen Gilbert, York University

Discussant

• Erica R. Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University