Wayward Joy in Queer Femme-inist Educational Research
| Title: | Wayward Joy in Queer Femme-inist Educational Research |
|---|---|
| Authors: | Stapleton, Sarah; Cavanaugh, Lindsay; Crimson Rose Da Costa, Jade |
| Source: | Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education |
| Publisher Information: | VCU Scholars Compass |
| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Collection: | Virginia Commonwealth University: VCU Scholars Compass |
| Subject Terms: | dream-mapping; femme; wayward; queer joy; softness; Education; Gender and Sexuality; Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual; and Transgender Studies |
| Description: | This article draws on our experiences with “Femme Educational Futurities,” a dream-mapping (Author 2, 2023), critical arts-based, participatory-informed project about softness in K–12 schools, to explore the boundaries of queer, femme-inist research. We trace how our attempts to enact research softly (Schwartz, 2020) led us towards wayward joy (Hartman, 2019): a messy affective terrain marked by connection, vulnerability, shame, and hope. For each author, we identify what Applebaum (1995) calls a “stop” moment and explore within each instance the convergence of softness, radical love (hooks, 2000) and tender failure (Halberstam, 2011), and discuss what joy means to us as a praxis of methodological waywardness rooted in a queer femme-inist ethic. |
| Document Type: | text |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | unknown |
| Relation: | https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jqtsie/vol2/iss2/7; https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/context/jqtsie/article/1073/viewcontent/JQTSIE_Volume_2_Issue_2_Article_7.pdf |
| DOI: | 10.60808/hn39-7s10 |
| Availability: | https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jqtsie/vol2/iss2/7; https://doi.org/10.60808/hn39-7s10; https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/context/jqtsie/article/1073/viewcontent/JQTSIE_Volume_2_Issue_2_Article_7.pdf |
| Rights: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.63CCC99A |
| Database: | BASE |