Queering youthoods

Question 1

What are some forms of identification and association when it comes to LGBTQ youth?

Answer 1

These complications also include negotiations among forms of identification, including racialized, ethnic, gendered, and other aspects of subjectivity and location.

Question 2

What did Foucault encourage?

Answer 2

Foucault (1981) too encouraged thinking about gayness as productive of new kinds of relationships and new ways of thinking.

Question 3

What are some of the key tasks that LGBTQIA students have to navigate in school?

Answer 3

The complications around self-representation, community building, and advocacy are also key tasks for LGBTQIA youth navigating schools and other spaces.

Question 4

What should research focus more on when it comes to trans youth?

Answer 4

• help open conversations
• show how queer youth negotiate positions and alliances as they move in social groups

Question 5

What are some ways the scope of research can be widened?

Answer 5

think critically about how gender normativity effects everyone

Question 6

What does queer legal theory suggest?

Answer 6

• institutional spaces and practices related to family forms and immigration status help shape sexuality and gender identity (Lugg & Adelman, 2015)

Question 7

What do queer and trans experiences continued to be shaped by?

Answer 7

race, gender, class, and gender identity (meanings have changed too)

Question 8

Queer is not a verb, it is a …intent on challenging even ….

Answer 8

Queer is not just a verb, it is an imperative, intent on challenging even provisional normativity (Britzman, 1995).