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In this chapter, I turn to observations I have made in working with sexual minority youth in public schools to show their innovations in gender and sexuality within the contingencies and disruptions of desire. Central to their task of organizing against homophobia is a collective reconsideration of the limits of gender and sexual identities, limits that they link to how their bodies are perceived by others and how the space of school seems intent on perpetuating those limits whether through bias that stabilizes their identities or through discourses of safety that stabilize their riskiness.
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Mayo, C. (2017). Desire, Ethics, and (Mis)Recognitions. In: Gay-Straight Alliances and Associations among Youth in Schools. Queer Studies and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59529-4_3
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