An Cripistemology Analysis of Bullying and Harassment of LGBTQ Youth With Disabilities

• In Event: Understanding Intersectional Lines of Inequities and Diverse Pathways of Resistance

Abstract

Educational research focusing on bullying and harassment is dominated by a framework that discusses bullies and victims from a psycho-social deficit framework, ignoring larger systems of values and behaviors that support dominant hegemonic ideologies such as heteronormativity and able-bodiedness (Payne & Smith, 2016). This presentation purports to examine the social act of bullying that rewards and punishes through norms and values. Bullying acts as a hegemonic device to perpetuate compulsory able-bodiedness and heteronormativity (McRuer, 2014). Utilizing a lens of intersectionality, we explore narratives and art of 17 youth who are sexual or gender minorities with disabilities as a way of resisting and pushing back against the boundaries and norms that are (re)constructed through dominant narratives of bullying and harassment.

Authors

• Laurie Gutmann Kahn, Moravian College

• Angela Ingram, Purdue University - Northwest