Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth

Abstract

This book draws upon a queer literacy framework to map out examples for teaching literacy across pre-K-12 schooling. To date, there are no comprehensive Pre-K-12 texts for literacy teacher educators and theorists to use to show successful models of how practicing classroom teachers affirm differential (a)gender bodied realities across curriculum and schooling practices. This book aims to highlight how these enactments can be made readily conscious to teachers as a reminder that gender normativity has established violent and unstable social and educational climates for the millennial generation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, (a)gender/(a)sexual, gender creative, and questioning youth. Introduction : The role of recognition / sj Miller -- Why a queer literacy framework matters : models for sustaining (a)gender self-determination and justice in today's schooling practices / sj Miller -- Teaching our teachers : trans* and gender education in teacher preparation and professional development / Cathy A.R. Brant -- Kindergartners studying trans* issues through I am Jazz / Ashley Lauren Sullivan -- Beyond this or that : challenging the limits of binary language in elementary education through poetry, word art, and creative bookmaking / benjamin lee hicks -- The teacher as a text : un-centering normative gender identities in the secondary English language arts classroom / Kate E. Kedley -- The t* in lgbt* : disrupting gender normative school culture through young adult literature / Katherine Mason Cramer and Jill Adams -- Risks and resiliency : trans* students in the rural South / Stephanie Anne Shelton and Aryah O'Tiss S. Lester -- Introducing (a)gender into foreign/second language education / Paul Chamness Miller and Hidehiro Endo -- Exploring gender through Ash in the secondary English classroom / Paula Greathouse -- Transitional memoirs : reading using a queer cultural capital model / Summer Melody Pennell -- Trans* young adult literature for secondary English classrooms : authors speak out / Judith A. Hayn, Karina R. Clemmons, and Heather A. Olvey -- Puncturing the silence : teaching The Laramie Project in the secondary English classroom / Toby Emert -- Making space for unsanctioned texts : teachers and students collaborate to trans*form writing assignments / Michael Wenk -- Using queer pedagogy and theory to teach Shakespeare's Twelfth Night / Kathryn Cloonan -- The nonconclusion : trans*ing education into the future : this cannot wait / sj Miller -- Erratunm to: Teaching, affirming, and recognizing trans and gender creative youth -- Glossary of terms : defining a common queer language.