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Publication Date: 2014
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"It Gets Narrower": Creative Strategies for Re-Broadening Queer Peer Education
Harris, Anne; Farrington, David
Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, v14 n2 p144-158 2014
Using collaborative performance ethnography in community- and school-based settings, sex education has the potential to challenge at-risk narratives for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) youth. This paper problematises the youth-led drama project "Epic Queer" to test the "queer" potential of youth-driven initiatives at the school and community level, and to reject the singularity of victimised and "at-risk" narratives so pervasive in sex education internationally about queer youth. By drawing on the "It Gets Better Project" as an example of widespread but narrowing social media texts encouraging normativity, deferred pleasure and a happiness narrative, this paper argues for the potential of performance-based arts engagement for re-expanding queer youth subjectivities.
Descriptors: Creativity, Homosexuality, Sex Education, Social Networks, At Risk Persons, Ethnography, Victims, Drama, Program Descriptions, Neoliberalism, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Theater Arts
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