Bridging the Rainbow Gap

Antonio Duran, Ph.D. (2019), The Ohio State University, is Assistant Professor of Higher and Postsecondary Education at Arizona State University. His research focuses on understanding how historical and contemporary legacies of oppression influence college student development, experiences, and success. Kamden K. Strunk, Ph.D. (2012), Oklahoma State University, is Associate Professor of Research Methodology in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research focuses research methodologies, especially critical quantitative methodologies, as applied to the study of queer studies and anti-racism in education. ​​​Ryan Schey, Ph.D. (2018), The Ohio State University, is Assistant Professor of English Education in the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia. His research examines literacy and language practices and social change in schools, focusing on LGBTQIA+ youth and the educators who work with them.

Foreword

 Kristen A. Renn

Notes on Contributors



1 The Road to Bridging the Rainbow Gap: Unearthing Possibilities and Tensions in Queer and Trans Studies in Education

 Antonio Duran, Kamden K. Strunk and Ryan Schey



2 Identity Development from High School through College: Considering Queer Adolescence across Contexts

 Kaity Prieto and J. B. Mayo



3 The Beauty of Queerness: A Response to “Identity Development from High School through College: Considering Queer Adolescence across Contexts”

 Brandon Haskey-Valerius



4 Queer(ing) Educational Ethnography within and beyond Schools

 LJ Slovin and Ryan Schey



5 Blurring Ethnographic and Practitioner Research Methodologies and Affirming Queer and Trans Youth: A Response to “Queer(ing) Educational Ethnography within and beyond Schools”

 Jen McLaughlin Cahill



6 Flipping the Narrative: Using Queer and Trans Young Adult Literature as a Form of Resistance

 Cindy Ann Kilgo and Summer Pennell



7 The Way Is Queer: A Response to “Flipping the Narrative: Using Queer and Trans Young Adult Literature as a Form of Resistance”

 Caitlin O’Loughlin



8 Confessions of Whiteness in Queer Organizing Spaces

 Kamden K. Strunk and Kachine Kulick



9 Sergio’s Letter of Confession: A Response to “Confessions of Whiteness in Queer Organizing Spaces”

 Sergio Gonzalez



10 Queer Joy as an Affective Incitement to Queer and Trans Studies in Education

 Antonio Duran and Roland Sintos Coloma



11 Three Queeries: A Response to “Queer Joy as Affective Incitement to Queer and Trans Studies in Education”

 Taylor Stocks



12 “Watery Thinking”: The Layering of Queer Potential and Ideological Shifts

 Stephanie Anne Shelton, Mollie V. Blackburn and Lindsey Allen



13 Water under the Bridge: A Response to “‘Watery Thinking’: The Layering of Queer Potential and Ideological Shifts”

 Jessica A. Weise



14 Transgressing Educational Divides: Building Bridges between K-12 and Postsecondary Trans Studies

 Justin A. Gutzwa and Bishop Owis



15 Abutments and Arches: Complicating the Bridges between and beyond Trans Studies in K-16 Education—A Response to “Transgressing Educational Divides: Building Bridges between K-12 and Postsecondary Trans Studies

 Benjamin C. Kennedy

16 Bridging Possibilities and Imagining Futures in Queer and Trans Studies in Education

 Kamden K. Strunk, Ryan Schey and Antonio Duran



Afterword

 Kevin Kumashiro



Index