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42.075 - Queering Identities in Adolescent Literature and Classrooms

Sat, April 29, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Floor: Fourth Floor, Crockett B

Session Type: Symposium

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Young adult literature with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and questioning characters offers young people the opportunity to understand identities and relationships in ways that differ from heteronormative expectations. Secondary English teachers, too, are finding ways to incorporate this literature into classrooms as a way to disrupt normative scripts and offer students a chance to queer their understandings of themselves and others. Papers in this session offer readings of LGBTQ YA literature that reveal the queer storylines that texts offer, and also offer pedagogies and curriculum ideas for how to bring queer readings into classrooms.

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