ERIC Number: EJ1267546
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 17
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Joaquin's Refusal: An Embodied and Geographic Active Subjectivity
Vázquez, Andrea del Carmen
Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, v14 n2 p87-103 2020
This essay explores a Latinx, queer and trans, student's resistance to a gender-neutral restroom at a high school in an agricultural community of the Central Coast of California. Through a close reading of a field note, I analyze Joaquin's narrative of refusal to demonstrate how queer and trans youth engage in an active subjectivity (Lugones, 2003). For decolonial philosopher María Lugones (2003), an active subjectivity is the process through which oppressed communities become conscious and critical by engaging in a meaning-making process centered on their socialites. I argue that queer and trans high school students' active subjectivity is in relation to their embodied knowledges and geographies. The body and space are both critical in learning to think in community and reflexively. Joaquin's refusal of the restroom becomes useful in understanding how queer and trans youth tell narratives of their self, grounded in a social history capable of alternating the story told about space and place.
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, LGBTQ People, Resistance (Psychology), Sanitary Facilities, High School Students, Personal Autonomy, Gender Bias, Gender Issues, Social Bias, Social Theories
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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