Queer Youth Cultures (S U N Y Series, Interruptions: Border Testimony(Ies) and Critical Discourse S)

Essays explore the contemporary contexts, activism, and cultural productions of queer youth and their communities.Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, including zine-making, drag performance, online chatting, music, gay porn, and organizing resistance, the essays in Susan Driver's Queer Youth Cultures explore the creative, political, energetic, and artistic worlds of contemporary queer youth. The research in this collection bridges the perspectives of academics and queer youth, and the voices of the youth resonate throughout the analyses of their communities and lives. Through a variety of methodological approaches, the contributors bring into focus the institutional regulations of youth sexuality and gender, the complex and changing embodied experiences of queer youth, and the visual and textual languages through which the experiences of the youth are represented. Rather than seeing queer youth as victims, contributors celebrate the creative ways that sexual and gender minority youth forge subcultures and challenge exclusionary and heteronormative ways of understanding young people.Susan Driver is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at York University and the author of Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media. What's That Smell? : Queer Temporalities And Subcultural Lives / Judith Halberstam -- The Galaxy Is Gay : Examining The Networks Of Lesbian Punk Rock Subculture / Angela Wilson -- Redefining Realities Through Self-representational Performance / Jama Shelton -- My Identity Is Fluid As Fuck : Transgender Zine Writers Constructing Themselves / Jackie Regales -- Articulating Sissy Boy Queerness Within And Against Discourses Of Tolerance And Pride / David Mcinnes And Cristyn Davies -- How To Be A Real Lesbian : 'the Pink Sofa' And Some Fictions Of Identity / Anna Hickey-moody, Mary Louise Rasmussen, And Valerie Harwood -- Photo-essay / Cass Bird -- Queer Readings Of Popular Culture : Searching [to] Out The Subtext / Mark Lipton -- Brandon Goes To Hollywood : 'boys Don't Cry' And The Transgender Body In Film / Melissa Rigney -- Queering Pornography : Desiring Youth, Race, And Fantasy In Gay Porn / Zeb J. Tortorici -- Fobs, Banana Boy, And The Gay Pretenders : Queer Youth Navigate Sex, Race, And Nation In Toronto, Canada / Andil Gosine -- Rethinking The Movement : Trans Youth Activism In New York City And Beyond / Megan Davidson -- Principles Of Engagement : The Anarchist Influence On Queer Youth Cultures / Neal Ritchie -- 'drag It Out!' : How Queer Youth Are Transforming Citizenship In Peterborough / Ziysah D. Markson. Edited By Susan Driver. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. What's that smell? : queer temporalities and subcultural lives / Judith Halberstam The galazy is gay : examining the networks of lesbian punk rock subculture / Angela Wilson Redefining realities through self representational performance / Jama Shelton My identity is fluid as fuck : transgender zine writers constructing themselves / Jackie Regales Articulating sissy boy queerness within and against discourses of tolerance and pride / David McInnes and Cristyn Davies How to be a real lesbian : the pink sofa & some fictions of identity / Anna Hickey-Moody, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Valerie Harwood Photo essay / by Essay Cass Bird Queer readings of popular culture : searching [to] out the subtext / Mark Lipton Brandon goes to Hollywood : representing a transgender body in Boys don't cry / Melissa Rigney Queering pornography : desiring youth, race, and fantasy in gay porn / Zeb Joseph Tortorici FOBs, banana boy, and the gay pretenders : queer youth navigate sex, race, nation in Toronto, Canada / Andil Gosine Rethinking the movement : trans youth activism in New York City and beyond / Megan Davidson Principles of engagement : the anarchist influence on queer youth cultures / Neal Ritchie Drag it out! how queer youths are transforming citizenship in Peterborough / Ziysah D. Markson. Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, including zine-making, drag performance, online chatting, music, gay pom, and organizing resistance, the essays in Susan Driver's Queer Youth Cultures explore the creative, political, energetic, and artistic worlds of contemporary queer youth. The research in this collection bridges the perspectives of academics and queer youth, and the voices of the youth resonate throughout the analyses of their communities and lives. Through a variety of methodological approaches, the contributors bring into focus the institutional regulations of youth sexuality and gender, the complex and changing embodied experiences of queer youth, and the visual and textual languages through which the experiences of the youth are represented. Rather than seeing queer youth as victims, contributors celebrate the creative ways that sexual and gender minority youth forge subcultures and challenge exclusionary and heteronormative ways of understanding young people