Full Description
Queer Precarity in Higher Education looks at queer scholars pushing against institutional structures, and the queer knowledge that gets pushed out by universities. It provides insight into the work of, in and beyond academia as it is un-done in the contemporary (post)Covid moment, not least by queer academic-activists.
This radical un-doing represents cycles of queer precarity, pragmatism and participation both situating and questioning the 'queer arrival' of institutionalized programmes and presences (e.g. queer and gender studies degrees, prominent and public feminist academics). In this book, the contributors push back against contemporary educational precarity, mobilizing queer insight and insistence; and push back against confinement of the University, socially and spatially. The collection brings together academic-activist perspectives to extend understandings of experiences of marginalization and inequality in higher education. It also documents the diversity of tactics with which queers negotiate and resist the various, shifting and interconnected forms of precarity and privilege found on the edges of academia.
Contributors consider these issues from inside/outside academia and across career course, challenging the 'queer arrival' as emanating outward from the university to the community, from the academic to the activist, or from a state of privilege to a place of precarity.
Contents
List of table
Contributor Biographies
INTRODUCTION TO QUEER PRECARITIES IN AND OUT OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Yvette Taylor, Matt Brim, Churnjeet Mahn
PROLOGUE: SOUR GRAPES
Anne Balay
Part I THE WORK OF QUEER CARE AND MUTUAL AID
Chapter 1: QUEER CARE WORK AS POSSIBILITY: HOW CARE SUSTAINS QUEER SURVIVAL IN THE ACADEMY
Della J. Winters and Holly Ningard
Chapter 2: REDISTRIBUTING RESOURCES BEYOND THE ACADEMY: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH THE DAVIDSON COMMUNITY FUND
Sanzari Aranyak, Katie Horowitz, Ashley Ip, Myka Johnson, Zach Neville, Isabel Padalecki, Margo Parker, Yara Quezada Marino, Jaelyn Taylor, Rahrah Taylor, and Emily Troutman (Davidson Community Fund)
Chapter 3: QUEERING COMPLEX CONVERSATIONS: SHARING ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES DURING THE PANDEMIC
Fen Kennedy
Chapter 4: QUEER KINSHIP AS COUNTERNARRATIVE: A PARADIGM OF PERSISTENCE FOR CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION
Shereen Inayatulla and David P. Rivera
Part II FAILURE AND RESISTANCE IN DIVERSITY WORK
Chapter 5: UNAFFILIATED: THE DELEGITIMIZATION OF SCHOLARS OF COLOR OUTSIDE OF ACADEME
Monalesia Earle
Chapter 6: BEYOND BOX TICKING AND BUZZWORDS: A QUEER, WORKING-CLASS, ANTI-RACIST, ANTI-ABLEIST SHARING IN UK ACADEMIA
Leanne Dawson
Chapter 7: THE PARADOX OF BEING SEEN: STORIES FROM TWO QUEER EDUCATORS AT A NEW YORK CITY HIGH SCHOOL
Tiffany Lenoi Jones and Elana Eisen-Markowitz
Part III QUEER COMMUNITY PEDAGOGIES
Chapter 8: SHARING ACROSS GENERATIONS: THE LGBTQ+ INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE PROJECT
Adam J. Greteman, Nic M. Weststrate, and Karen Morris
Chapter 9: PERMEABLE SPACES: CREATING STRUCTURED YET FLUID CULTURAL EXPERIENCES FOR LGBTI+ ELDERS
Lou Brodie and Lewis Hetherington
Chapter 10: QUEER KINSHIP AND THE PRACTICE OF FAITH DURING COVID-19
Sadie Counts
EPILOGUE: QUEER FAILURE AND THE FIGHT FOR PUBLIC COLLEGE FOR ALL
Jennifer Gaboury
Notes
Further Reading
Index
