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ERIC Number: EJ659015
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-1081-3004
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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