NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Back to results
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
ERIC Number: EJ1249975
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1066-5684
EISSN: N/A
Under the Trees in Lincoln Center: Queer and Trans Homeless Youth Coming Together in the City
Stiegler, Sam
Equity & Excellence in Education, v52 n4 p373-382 2019
This essay explores the relationship of two homeless youth--one queer and one trans--as they move together through and pass time in public space between the opening hours of their shelters and groups homes. Pulling from a critical ethnography of the experiences of trans and queer youth in New York City, this essay examines how these two youth come to know how to navigate and be in relation with the affects, structures, bodies, and discourses that comprise the city. The essay centers their relationship as an act of resistance, or queerruption as per this symposium, against normative assumptions about race, gender, and sexuality that dictate how the city is "supposed" to be used. The essay is written in a narrative form that asks readers to consider how they are coming to know these two youth through the ways they are animated in the text, with the purpose being to unpack the assumptions of presupposing who, what, and where trans and queer youth are thought to be.
Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A