Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth : A Queer Literacy Framework

This book draws upon a queer literacy framework to map out examples for teaching literacy across pre-K-12 schooling. To date, there are no comprehensive Pre-K-12 texts for literacy teacher educators and theorists to use to show successful models of how practicing classroom teachers affirm differential (a)gender bodied realities across curriculum and schooling practices. This book aims to highlight how these enactments can be made readily conscious to teachers as a reminder that gender normativity has established violent and unstable social and educational climates for the millennial generation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, (a)gender/(a)sexual, gender creative, and questioning youth. 

sj Miller is a trans*+disciplinary award-winning teacher/writer/activist/scholar and an expert in secondary literacy across disciplines. sj’s research is framed around trans*+disciplinary perspectives on social justice and links across socio-spatial justice, urban education, preservice and inservice secondary language arts teacher dispositions, and marginalized/undervalued student literacies and identities, with a particular emphasis on gender identity. sj has written nine books, over twenty-five book chapters, over fifty articles, and is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, BBC Radio, CBS News, GLSEN, Vice, and PBS. In 2019, sj received the AERA Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award.