Going Along With Trans, Queer and Non-binary Youth

Engaging, self-reflective stories of conducting research on and with transgender, queer, and non-binary youth as they go about their everyday lives in New York City.

Honorable Mention, for the 2025 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Qualitative Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association

This book recounts a series of mobile interviews-or "go-alongs"-with eleven transgender, queer, and non-binary youth to examine the everyday ways they navigated and made their lives in New York City. By telling the stories of how the go-alongs transpired and using detailed narrative description, Sam Stiegler shifts methodological attention to those parts of scholarly studies that often get left on the cutting room floor. Going Along with Trans, Queer, and Non-Binary Youth foregrounds process, not just findings, reflecting on the complexities of embodying the position of researcher and what it was like to do research with these participants. We, as readers, are compelled not only to see how these young people express knowledge about their worlds and their understandings of race, gender, sexuality, class, and age but also to appraise how we make sense of them in the course of our reading.

Sam Stiegler is an incoming McKenzie Fellow at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne.