Spoken word as border pedagogy with LGBTQ youth

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Arai recounts a moment of performance as border pedagogy. Critical pedagogy and performance ethnography merged in a spoken word workshop as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer youth and their allies created, performed, and collectively explored experiences of homophobia, intersectional-identity, the role of gay-straight alliances in their schools, and their beliefs about community. They confronted the juxtaposition of messages, unfolding possibilities for hope. Through audio recordings and mash-ups participants felt the emotional weight of different tracks, heard complexity, and held tensions as multiple tracks played together representing the plurality of messages heard in community. Fieldwork was a collaborative process and performance created possibilities for remaking culture and self in the complexities of micropractices of power as they moved, disrupted, acted, and questioned the status quo.

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Arai, S. M. (2017). Spoken word as border pedagogy with LGBTQ youth. In Creating Social Change Through Creativity: Anti-Oppressive Arts-Based Research Methodologies (pp. 355–372). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52129-9_19

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