In this article, Jen Gilbert, Jessica Fields, Laura Mamo, and Nancy Lesko explore the Beyond Bullying Project, a multimedia, storytelling project that invited students, teachers, and community members in three US high schools to enter a private booth and share stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) sexuality and gender. While recent policy making and educational research have focused on links between LGBTQ sexuality and gender, bullying, and other risks to educational and social achievement, Beyond Bullying aimed to identify the ordinary stories of LGBTQ sexuality and gender that circulate in schools and that an interventionist framing may obscure. After offering an overview of the method in Beyond Bullying, this article connects narratives of LGBTQ desire, family, and school life to the intimate possibilities—who students and teachers are, who they want to be, and the social worlds they want to build—available to them in schools.
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June 01 2018
Intimate Possibilities: The Beyond Bullying Project and Stories of LGBTQ Sexuality and Gender in US Schools
JESSICA FIELDS;
JESSICA FIELDS
San Francisco State University
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NANCY LESKO
NANCY LESKO
Teachers College, Columbia University
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Harvard Educational Review (2018) 88 (2): 163–183.
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JEN GILBERT, JESSICA FIELDS, LAURA MAMO, NANCY LESKO; Intimate Possibilities: The Beyond Bullying Project and Stories of LGBTQ Sexuality and Gender in US Schools. Harvard Educational Review 1 June 2018; 88 (2): 163–183. doi: https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-88.2.163
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