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Conflict, Empowerment, Resistance: Queer Youth and Geographies of Intergenerationality

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Part of the book series: Geographies of Children and Young People ((GCYP,volume 5))

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Queer youth intergenerationality is an emerging topic within geography. As such, the chapter draws not only from geographies of children and young people, geographies of sexualities, and geographies of family, home, and household but also takes an interdisciplinary approach – including family studies, youth studies, critical pedagogy, sociology, and anthropology – to explore the breadth of queer youth research germane to present and future studies of queer youths’ intergenerational familial and extrafamilial relationships. Intersectionality provides a theoretical framework with which to examine queer youth, who represent the intersection of age with sexuality. Intersectionality is further useful in analyzing the ways LGBT youths’ sexual identities intersect with multiple identity markers – race, gender, class, and religion among others – across the life course as well as at various sites. Emphasizing site and scale, this chapter explores spaces of important multigenerational and intergenerational social exchange, including the home, school, queer youth group, park, playground, legislature, and supranational organization. This chapter interrogates intragenerational, intergenerational, and multigenerational conflicts, such as bullying and the anxiety surrounding queer youth sex education. The chapter further examines the complex spatiality of bedroom culture in regard to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender youth, and young adults and the bedroom space that becomes a locus of empowerment, conflict, and resistance. As this chapter shows, the intersectional identities of queer youth enable, restrict, shape, and are shaped by complex forms of intergenerational and multigenerational interaction and relationships.

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Schroeder, C. (2018). Conflict, Empowerment, Resistance: Queer Youth and Geographies of Intergenerationality. In: Punch, S., Vanderbeck, R. (eds) Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations. Geographies of Children and Young People, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-026-1_13

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