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This book engages with the concept "queer battle fatigue," which is the everyday exhaustion that LGBTQIA+ people and communities often experience from anti-queer norms and values. Contributors express how this concept is often experienced across spaces and places, from schools to communities.
List of contents
1. Anti-Queerness as Educational Norms: Tracing the Contours of Queer Battle Fatigue 2. Trans Faculty & Queer Battle Fatigue: Poetic (Re)Presentations of Navigating Identity Politics in the Academy 3. Embracing Queer Heartache: Lessons from LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogues 4. Queer Black Joy in the Face of Racial and Queer Battle Fatigue 5. STEM as a Cover: Towards a Framework for Queer Emotions, Battle Fatigue, and STEM Identity 6. Curricula of Oppressions: Queering Elementary School Norms and Values 7. Embodied failure: Resisting gender and sexuality erasures in K-12 schools 8. Illegible and Illiterate in Honduras: Research in a Transnational Setting as a Queer from the Global North
About the author
Boni Wozolek is currently serving as the inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Excellence at Penn State University, Abington College, where she is also an Assistant Professor.
David Lee Carlson is Full Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University.
Summary
This book engages with the concept “queer battle fatigue,” which is the everyday exhaustion that LGBTQIA+ people and communities often experience from anti-queer norms and values. Contributors express how this concept is often experienced across spaces and places, from schools to communities.
