Agitating “Youth”: Queer, Trans and Nonbinary Youth Within the Hopes and Denials of Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will critically examine current framings of queer, trans and nonbinary youth in educational discourses across myriad settings (technologies, LGBTQ leadership camp, sexuality education) and locales (United States, Canada, and Australia). How might youth be understood as curating and producing knowledges of identities, self, and education? Drawing upon new media studies, critical theories of race, queer theories, youth studies and affect theory, the symposium brings together educational researchers whose work calls into question the construction of queer, trans and nonbinary youth as inherently at-risk or understood as white/cisgender, to ask instead how a fuller range of perspectives, emotions and identities can enter into our conversations and research about and with youth in education.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Studies of diversity and variation within social contexts of education

Chair

• Lisa W. Loutzenheiser, The University of British Columbia

Papers

• "These Boys Are Mixty": Queer- and Sex-Negative Discourses Among Young Black Queer Males - Edward Brockenbrough, University of Pennsylvania

• Thinking Through Hope: Queer, Trans, and Nonbinary Youth and the Curation of Multiple, Enmeshed Identities - Lisa W. Loutzenheiser, The University of British Columbia

• Thinking Plurality in the "World" Traveling of Queer Youth of Color - Cindy Cruz, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Doing "Difference" Differently: Working Within-Through Methodological-Pedagogical (Im)Possibilities With Young People - Leanne Coll, Deakin University