Disrupting the (Hetero)normative: Exploring Literacy Performances and Identity Work with Queer Youth.

Blackburn, Mollie V.

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ERIC Number: EJ659015

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Disrupting the (Hetero)normative: Exploring Literacy Performances and Identity Work with Queer Youth.

Blackburn, Mollie V.

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v46 n4 p312-24 Dec-Jan 2002-2003

Explores literacy performances as a way for students to empower themselves and effect social change. Describes a literacy group called Story Time in a youth-run center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youths. Concludes that literacy performances are a way into opportunities for social change for any marginalized reader and writer. (PM)

Descriptors: Literacy, Secondary Education, Sexual Orientation, Social Change, Student Attitudes, Student Empowerment, Youth Programs

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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