1st Edition

Queer Battle Fatigue Education, Exhaustion, and Everyday Oppressions

Edited By Boni Wozolek, David Lee Carlson Copyright 2024
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

This book engages with the concept “queer battle fatigue,” which is the everyday exhaustion that LGBTQIA+ people and communities often experience from anti-queer norms and values. Contributors express how this concept is often experienced across spaces and places, from schools to communities. Queer Battle Fatigue is one way to express the everyday exhaustion that LGBTQIA+ people and... Read more

1. Anti-Queerness as Educational Norms: Tracing the Contours of Queer Battle Fatigue

Boni Wozolek and David Lee Carlson

2. Trans Faculty & Queer Battle Fatigue: Poetic (Re)Presentations of Navigating Identity Politics in the Academy

Sean Robinson

3. Embracing Queer Heartache: Lessons from LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogues

Karen Morris, Adam J. Greteman and Nic M. Weststrate

4. Queer Black Joy in the Face of Racial and Queer Battle Fatigue

Reagan P. Mitchell

5. STEM as a Cover: Towards a Framework for Queer Emotions, Battle Fatigue, and STEM Identity

Mario I. Suárez, Andrea M. Hawkman, Colby Tofel-Grehl, Beth L. MacDonald, Kristin Searle, David F. Feldon, Taryn Sommers and Evelynn Foley-Hernandez

6. Curricula of Oppressions: Queering Elementary School Norms and Values

Boni Wozolek and Samantha Antell

7. Embodied failure: Resisting gender and sexuality erasures in K-12 schools

Darla Linville

8. Illegible and Illiterate in Honduras: Research in a Transnational Setting as a Queer from the Global North

Kate E. Kedley

Biography

Boni Wozolek is currently serving as the inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Excellence at Penn State University, Abington College, where she is also an Assistant Professor.

David Lee Carlson is Full Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University.