Queer Kids and Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517917166)

Challenging the myths about LGBTQ+ kids and bullying: what it means to protect queer kids in schools

Conversations around LGBTQ+ kids in school have become dominated by the subject of bullying. Although this may be due to good-faith efforts to protect vulnerable students, Queer Kids and Social Violence demonstrates that a focus on bullying as acts of individual peer aggression fails to address the social norms that perpetuate the violence. Considering the broader contexts of bullying, this volume offers ways to engage with queer youth that are both more humanizing and more likely to create sustainable change.

Essays by leading international scholars analyze how bullying discourse shapes policy and practice, using in-depth case studies, research findings, and examinations of political policy to guide readers through the various forms of violence, identity regulation, and identity erasure in schools. Offering conversation-shifting interventions to respond to a difficult and frightening political moment for LGBTQ+ youth, Queer Kids and Social Violence is a rounded, empathetic picture that does queer youth justice and points the way toward safer schools for all.

Contributors: Ana Mar?a Amigo-Ventureira, Durell M. Callier, Cristyn Davies, Ren?e DePalma, Tania Ferfolja, Jessica Fields, Elliot Fonarev, Jen Gilbert, Tristan Gleason, Dominique C. Hill, Angela Ingram, Laurie Gutmann Kahn, Cris Mayo, Mollie McQuillan, Aoife Neary, C.J. Pascoe, Victoria Rawlings, EJ Renold, Jessica Ringrose, Kerry H. Robinson, Dorte Marie S ndergaard, Cris Townley, Jacqueline Ullman, Boni Wozolek.

Author: Elizabethe Payne
ISBN-10: 1517917166
ISBN-13: 9781517917166
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 10/28/2025
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.62lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.79d