Queer Kids and Social Violence

The Limits of Bullying

Elizabethe Payne, Melissa J. Smith

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781452974446
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Counseling

Challenging the myths about LGBTQ+ kids and bullying: what it means to protect queer kids in schools

 

Conversations around LGBTQ+ kids in school have become dominated by the subject of bullying. Although this may be due to good-faith efforts to protect vulnerable students, Queer Kids and Social Violence demonstrates that a focus on bullying as acts of individual peer aggression fails to address the social norms that perpetuate the violence. Considering the broader contexts of bullying, this volume offers ways to engage with queer youth that are both more humanizing and more likely to create sustainable change.

 

Essays by leading international scholars analyze how bullying discourse shapes policy and practice, using in-depth case studies, research findings, and examinations of political policy to guide readers through the various forms of violence, identity regulation, and identity erasure in schools. Offering conversation-shifting interventions to respond to a difficult and frightening political moment for LGBTQ+ youth, Queer Kids and Social Violence is a rounded, empathetic picture that does queer youth justice and points the way toward safer schools for all.

 

Contributors: Ana María Amigo-Ventureira, Durell M. Callier, Cristyn Davies, Renée DePalma, Tania Ferfolja, Jessica Fields, Elliot Fonarev, Jen Gilbert, Tristan Gleason, Dominique C. Hill, Angela Ingram, Laurie Gutmann Kahn, Cris Mayo, Mollie McQuillan, Aoife Neary, C.J. Pascoe, Victoria Rawlings, EJ Renold, Jessica Ringrose, Kerry H. Robinson, Dorte Marie Søndergaard, Cris Townley, Jacqueline Ullman, Boni Wozolek.

 

 

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Bullying and LGBTQ+ Students: A Call to Redefine the Problem
• Chapter 2. Addressing LGBTQ+ Students’ Experiences of Sexual Harassment in Schools: Reconceptualizing Understandings, Policies, and Interventions
• Chapter 3. Rainbowland Bans, Sticking Heads in the Sand, or Holding Students’ Hands: How Administrators Engage in Direct, Facilitative, Accommodating, and Resistant Bullying
• Chapter 4. Reading Anti-queer Violence Through a Black Girlhood Studies Framework
• Chapter 5. Perched on a Tree: A Crip Theory Analysis of the Lived Experiences of Bullying, Discrimination, and Harassment of LGBTQI Young Adults with Disabilities
• Chapter 6. Pipelines Paved by Bullies: Black Queer Youth and Zero-ish Tolerance Policies
• Chapter 7. “You’re a Bully. That’s Not Cool.”: Interactional Aggression and Organizational Inequalities in High School
• Chapter 8. The Thrill of Policing Gender via Bullying and Humor
• Chapter 9. Interrogating the Orientation Toward Anti-homophobic/transphobic Bullying Procedures in Primary Schools
• Chapter 10. Disrupting the Conservative Parent Discourse: Parents’ Considerations of School-Based Bullying of Gender and Sexuality Diverse Students
• Chapter 11. A Critical Analysis of Spanish School Protocols for Preventing Bullying of Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Children
• Chapter 12. State-Led Configurations of Gender, Violence, and “Bullying” at School: Essentialism at Work
• Chapter 13. Queer Cwtch: A Feminist Posthuman and New Materialism Praxis Approach to Researching Gender and Sexual Diversity a d Equity in Schools
• Chapter Afterword: Beyond Schooling: Intimate Possibilities and the Limits of Bullying
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors