Casey Burkholder
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 461818 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Casey Burkholder |
| NOMBRES | Casey |
| APELLIDO | Burkholder |
| FIRMA | BURKHOLDER C |
| AFILIACIONES | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3979-7021 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Exploring Sexuality Education Through Play and Queer Joy with Rural Early Childhood Teachers
How might we reimagine early childhood sexuality education so that queer joy flourishes in these spaces through play? In this work, we come together as two queer researchers and ask how we might inhabit both play and queer joy to create a space where children can engage in queerer worldmaking and disrupt adult norms about sexuality, bodies, and identities in ECE classrooms. We describe how we engaged a group of 13 ECE teachers from a rural New Br…
“Is it good or bad to do anal?”
Where does queer joy fail in the sexuality education classroom? In this article, we work through the productive problematic of employing a queer and pleasure-centered approach to teaching sexuality education in New Brunswick, Canada. Engaging participatory visual research methods and queer joy alongside 60 sexuality education teachers in five separate art-making workshops and online interviews, we describe the conditions when teachers seemed unab…
Don’t say “lesbian”
Lauren Bialystok and Lisa M. F. Andersen, Touchy Subject
Queer Joy as Pedagogy
Background: What does it mean to mobilize queer joy as pedagogy, and how does it manifest in educational projects? Although much scholarship has examined queer pedagogy through critique and resistance, less attention has been paid to joy as a radical and collective mode of learning. In educational contexts marked by systemic violence and exclusion, we think that queer joy might offer a way of reimagining what teaching and learning can feel like. …
“Something that is so overlooked”
In this paper, we seek out the possibility of joyful and queered spaces of sexuality education. The sexual lives of queer and transgender youth are often passed over in sex and sexuality education classrooms. In this study, we were interested in exploring how sexual and bodily diversity make an appearance in these often-normative spaces. Through participatory visual research methodologies, we created art and media alongside 40 teachers in the pro…
On summoning queer joy in early childhood education
What might the concept of queer joy offer to early childhood educators in New Brunswick, Canada? As a part of a study about the supports and barriers to comprehensive sexuality education in New Brunswick, Canada, we sought to speak with early childhood educators about the ways in which sexuality education happens in early childhood centers. We wondered: What kinds of sexuality education is already happening within early childhood centers and unde…
Temporal disobedience
This article theorizes inter time as a critical intervention into normative life courses governed by whiteness, cisheteronormativity, able-bodiedness and endonormativity. We explore how intersex people are positioned as temporal disruptions: outside, behind, or threatening to linear, coherent timelines of birth, reproduction, productivity, and death. Building on queer, crip, Indigenous, and Black temporalities, we develop the notion of inter time…
Unpacking the Islamophobic & queerphobic logics of the sexuality education classroom
New Brunswick or queer’
Compulsory dandyism
This contribution features a conversation between Dr Christopher Breu, Dr Celeste E Orr and Dr Casey Burkholder at the On Intersex Joy (2025) event held at Concordia University, USA in July 2025. We asked a series of questions to centre the opportunities and limits to intersex joy, like 'what are the limits to joy or accessing joy?' and 'in what ways can intersex embodiment be a source of strength, affirmation and celebration?'. The article also …
Introducing the special issue
While intersex studies and activism understandably focus on violence, trauma and anger to fight against the myriad forms of interphobia, various intersex people, scholars and activists seem to be turning to joy to resist deficit frameworks. Responding to this turn, our introduction to the special issue 'On Intersex Joy' unpacks and theorises the potential of placing intersex studies in conversation with feminist theorisations of joy and happiness…
There's a lot of DIY joy
In this article, we reflect on experiences of gender euphoria and do-it-yourself (DIY) queer joy during a collage-making workshop with an intergenerational group of 2SLGBTQIA+ participants and researchers. The workshop is part of a larger participatory visual research project called Pride/Swell±an initiative that has been bringing together queer and trans people from across Atlantic Canada to make art since 2020. During an in-person workshop with…
Pandemic Considerations in Literacy Research & Teaching
Editors note: The remaining articles are from the 2022 Pre-Conference of LLRC and have been placed within this special issue of L&L
Temporal Seeing as Visual Literacy
Temporal seeing is a mode of visual perception that interrupts the spatial bias we bring to visual literacy practices. Although an image only captures one moment in time, there are multiple spatioanalytical tools we can use to consider any image. Spatial literacy, which is the practice of analyzing objects through their properties in space, tends to be the default analytical mode for making sense of imagery. For people to bring a commensurate tem…
Introduction to the special issue “Mobilising queer joy
Our introduction to the special issue “Mobilising Queer Joy” reflects an urgent need for queer joy studies amidst a sociopolitical climate that feels increasingly ruinous. We reject the ‘joy deficit’ in sociological research that fixates on homogenous, misery-filled visions of 2SLGBTQIA+ existence, and which is severed from the profound beauty of queer love, queer and trans joy, gender euphoria, and the strength and depth of 2SLGBTQIA+ community …
Mobilizing femme pedagogy in sexuality education in New Brunswick, Canada
Speaking back to gender-based violence in New Brunswick schools through queer maker literacies with 2SLGBTQ+ youth
Schools are a site of gender-based violence for queer, trans, and non-binary youth. Drawing on a participatory visual research project with three queer, trans, and non-binary youth, we argue that selfie and cellphilm production offer a glimpse into queer maker literacies. We suggest that the practice of making do-it-yourself (DIY) media productions with queer youth and older community collaborators in out-of-school settings provides opportunities…
Solidarity Through Mail-Based Participatory Visual Research
The COVID-19 pandemic posed a logistical problem to our normal ways of engaging in participatory visual research. Our in-person art, activism and archiving with 2SLGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian youth pivoted to use distanced engagement strategies that met the demands of the pandemic. We sought to create networks of solidarity while we were apart. Monthly, over the course of a year, we mailed out themed packages of art supplies and directions to fifty-f…
Embracing new paths in visual research facilitation
This introduction to the special section establishes facilitation as an important yet underreported component of visual sociological research. Although institutional and regulatory ethics have been ingrained in university research settings, scholars such as Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2014) have asked us to consider the ways in which participants’ and communities’ refuse research influence our ethical frameworks. We take up Tuck and Yang’s call t…
Facilitating gender-affirming participatory visual research in embodied and online spaces
How might participatory visual research with 2SLGBTQ+ be facilitated in gender affirming ways across physical and digital spaces? What do these practices look like, and how might facilitators adapt their practices in response to cisnormative language and binary physical spaces? This article describes the opportunities and challenges to facilitating two projects with 2SLGBTQ+ youth. The first project, Where Are Our Histories (2018–2020) – was a fa…
Zine Production with Queer Youth and Pre-Service Teachers in New Brunswick, Canada
Queer, trans, and non-binary youth navigate school spaces punctuated by erasures, silences, and oppression, and resist these experiences through solidarity-building, activism, and art practice. In this article, we seek to centre experiences of school and society as important spheres of inquiry through participatory visual research with queer, trans, and non-binary young people (ages 12 to 17) and pre-service teachers and community educators (ages…
Examining Gender and Resistance with Filipina Hong Kongers through Cellphilm Production and Collaborative Writing
Hong Kong’s non-white ethnic minorities – including its Filipina residents – are often described in media and policy discourses as a unified group. Speaking back to this misconception, in this article we describe the gendered experiences of two 23-year old Filipinas born and raised in Hong Kong through what Claudia Mitchell has described as girl method – research with girls for girls and about girls’ concerns – in our case producing visual depict…
Coproducing digital archives with 2SLGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian youth amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose The authors explore the coproduction of a digital archive with 50 2SLGBTQ+ youth across Atlantic Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to catalyze broader public participation in understanding 2SLGBTQ+ youth-led activism in this place and time through art production. Design/methodology/approach Through a mail-based participatory visual research project and an examination of collage, zines and DIY facemasks, the authors highlight ho…
Intellectualizing whiteness as a response to campus racism
This paper is rooted in the reactions of our university community to a racist poster that appeared on our campus. It presents a critique of tendencies to intellectualize whiteness in depoliticized forms as a response to acts of racism, tendencies that work to centre "good whiteness" in unconscious ways, obstructing opportunities for a more robust and determined politics of anti-racism. We structure the paper around three concerns: the first, a co…
Cellphilm production as posthuman research method to explore injustice with queer youth in New Brunswick, Canada
Posthuman research methodologies center nonhuman actors and spaces. In this paper, we argue that technological mediation is a key component in a move toward the exploration of posthuman subjectivity in research and the restructuring of dominant understandings of gender and sexualized difference. Drawing on a cellphilm (cellphone + film production) based project with queer, trans, and non-binary youth in New Brunswick, Canada, we seek to center qu…
Coproducing digital archives with 2SLGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian youth amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose The authors explore the coproduction of a digital archive with 50 2SLGBTQ+ youth across Atlantic Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to catalyze broader public participation in understanding 2SLGBTQ+ youth-led activism in this place and time through art production. Design/methodology/approach Through a mail-based participatory visual research project and an examination of collage, zines and DIY facemasks, the authors highlight ho…
Speaking back to gender-based violence in New Brunswick schools through queer maker literacies with 2SLGBTQ+ youth
Schools are a site of gender-based violence for queer, trans, and non-binary youth. Drawing on a participatory visual research project with three queer, trans, and non-binary youth, we argue that selfie and cellphilm production offer a glimpse into queer maker literacies. We suggest that the practice of making do-it-yourself (DIY) media productions with queer youth and older community collaborators in out-of-school settings provides opportunities…
Mobilizing femme pedagogy in sexuality education in New Brunswick, Canada
Solidarity Through Mail-Based Participatory Visual Research
The COVID-19 pandemic posed a logistical problem to our normal ways of engaging in participatory visual research. Our in-person art, activism and archiving with 2SLGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian youth pivoted to use distanced engagement strategies that met the demands of the pandemic. We sought to create networks of solidarity while we were apart. Monthly, over the course of a year, we mailed out themed packages of art supplies and directions to fifty-f…
Intellectualizing whiteness as a response to campus racism
This paper is rooted in the reactions of our university community to a racist poster that appeared on our campus. It presents a critique of tendencies to intellectualize whiteness in depoliticized forms as a response to acts of racism, tendencies that work to centre "good whiteness" in unconscious ways, obstructing opportunities for a more robust and determined politics of anti-racism. We structure the paper around three concerns: the first, a co…
Exploring racial identities through participatory visual and ethnographic methods
There is increasing research attention to the integration of ethnic minority youth in Hong Kong. Within this attention lies an interest in how these young people make sense of their identities in relation to their schooling experiences. From a qualitative methodological viewpoint, researchers’ positionalities, including their cultural background and scholarly motivations, have implications on the ways in which they (re)present their findings. Usi…
Intellectualizing whiteness as a response to campus racism
This paper is rooted in the reactions of our university community to a racist poster that appeared on our campus. It presents a critique of tendencies to intellectualize whiteness in depoliticized forms as a response to acts of racism, tendencies that work to centre "good whiteness" in unconscious ways, obstructing opportunities for a more robust and determined politics of anti-racism. We structure the paper around three concerns: the first, a co…
Cellphilm production as posthuman research method to explore injustice with queer youth in New Brunswick, Canada
Posthuman research methodologies center nonhuman actors and spaces. In this paper, we argue that technological mediation is a key component in a move toward the exploration of posthuman subjectivity in research and the restructuring of dominant understandings of gender and sexualized difference. Drawing on a cellphilm (cellphone + film production) based project with queer, trans, and non-binary youth in New Brunswick, Canada, we seek to center qu…
Zine Production with Queer Youth and Pre-Service Teachers in New Brunswick, Canada
Queer, trans, and non-binary youth navigate school spaces punctuated by erasures, silences, and oppression, and resist these experiences through solidarity-building, activism, and art practice. In this article, we seek to centre experiences of school and society as important spheres of inquiry through participatory visual research with queer, trans, and non-binary young people (ages 12 to 17) and pre-service teachers and community educators (ages…
Examining Gender and Resistance with Filipina Hong Kongers through Cellphilm Production and Collaborative Writing
Hong Kong’s non-white ethnic minorities – including its Filipina residents – are often described in media and policy discourses as a unified group. Speaking back to this misconception, in this article we describe the gendered experiences of two 23-year old Filipinas born and raised in Hong Kong through what Claudia Mitchell has described as girl method – research with girls for girls and about girls’ concerns – in our case producing visual depict…
Coproducing digital archives with 2SLGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian youth amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose The authors explore the coproduction of a digital archive with 50 2SLGBTQ+ youth across Atlantic Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to catalyze broader public participation in understanding 2SLGBTQ+ youth-led activism in this place and time through art production. Design/methodology/approach Through a mail-based participatory visual research project and an examination of collage, zines and DIY facemasks, the authors highlight ho…
Embracing new paths in visual research facilitation
This introduction to the special section establishes facilitation as an important yet underreported component of visual sociological research. Although institutional and regulatory ethics have been ingrained in university research settings, scholars such as Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2014) have asked us to consider the ways in which participants’ and communities’ refuse research influence our ethical frameworks. We take up Tuck and Yang’s call t…
Facilitating gender-affirming participatory visual research in embodied and online spaces
How might participatory visual research with 2SLGBTQ+ be facilitated in gender affirming ways across physical and digital spaces? What do these practices look like, and how might facilitators adapt their practices in response to cisnormative language and binary physical spaces? This article describes the opportunities and challenges to facilitating two projects with 2SLGBTQ+ youth. The first project, Where Are Our Histories (2018–2020) – was a fa…
Speaking back to gender-based violence in New Brunswick schools through queer maker literacies with 2SLGBTQ+ youth
Schools are a site of gender-based violence for queer, trans, and non-binary youth. Drawing on a participatory visual research project with three queer, trans, and non-binary youth, we argue that selfie and cellphilm production offer a glimpse into queer maker literacies. We suggest that the practice of making do-it-yourself (DIY) media productions with queer youth and older community collaborators in out-of-school settings provides opportunities…
Solidarity Through Mail-Based Participatory Visual Research
The COVID-19 pandemic posed a logistical problem to our normal ways of engaging in participatory visual research. Our in-person art, activism and archiving with 2SLGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian youth pivoted to use distanced engagement strategies that met the demands of the pandemic. We sought to create networks of solidarity while we were apart. Monthly, over the course of a year, we mailed out themed packages of art supplies and directions to fifty-f…
Pandemic Considerations in Literacy Research & Teaching
Editors note: The remaining articles are from the 2022 Pre-Conference of LLRC and have been placed within this special issue of L&L
Temporal Seeing as Visual Literacy
Temporal seeing is a mode of visual perception that interrupts the spatial bias we bring to visual literacy practices. Although an image only captures one moment in time, there are multiple spatioanalytical tools we can use to consider any image. Spatial literacy, which is the practice of analyzing objects through their properties in space, tends to be the default analytical mode for making sense of imagery. For people to bring a commensurate tem…
Introduction to the special issue “Mobilising queer joy
Our introduction to the special issue “Mobilising Queer Joy” reflects an urgent need for queer joy studies amidst a sociopolitical climate that feels increasingly ruinous. We reject the ‘joy deficit’ in sociological research that fixates on homogenous, misery-filled visions of 2SLGBTQIA+ existence, and which is severed from the profound beauty of queer love, queer and trans joy, gender euphoria, and the strength and depth of 2SLGBTQIA+ community …
Mobilizing femme pedagogy in sexuality education in New Brunswick, Canada
Lauren Bialystok and Lisa M. F. Andersen, Touchy Subject
Queer Joy as Pedagogy
Background: What does it mean to mobilize queer joy as pedagogy, and how does it manifest in educational projects? Although much scholarship has examined queer pedagogy through critique and resistance, less attention has been paid to joy as a radical and collective mode of learning. In educational contexts marked by systemic violence and exclusion, we think that queer joy might offer a way of reimagining what teaching and learning can feel like. …
“Something that is so overlooked”
In this paper, we seek out the possibility of joyful and queered spaces of sexuality education. The sexual lives of queer and transgender youth are often passed over in sex and sexuality education classrooms. In this study, we were interested in exploring how sexual and bodily diversity make an appearance in these often-normative spaces. Through participatory visual research methodologies, we created art and media alongside 40 teachers in the pro…
On summoning queer joy in early childhood education
What might the concept of queer joy offer to early childhood educators in New Brunswick, Canada? As a part of a study about the supports and barriers to comprehensive sexuality education in New Brunswick, Canada, we sought to speak with early childhood educators about the ways in which sexuality education happens in early childhood centers. We wondered: What kinds of sexuality education is already happening within early childhood centers and unde…
Temporal disobedience
This article theorizes inter time as a critical intervention into normative life courses governed by whiteness, cisheteronormativity, able-bodiedness and endonormativity. We explore how intersex people are positioned as temporal disruptions: outside, behind, or threatening to linear, coherent timelines of birth, reproduction, productivity, and death. Building on queer, crip, Indigenous, and Black temporalities, we develop the notion of inter time…
Unpacking the Islamophobic & queerphobic logics of the sexuality education classroom
New Brunswick or queer’
Compulsory dandyism
This contribution features a conversation between Dr Christopher Breu, Dr Celeste E Orr and Dr Casey Burkholder at the On Intersex Joy (2025) event held at Concordia University, USA in July 2025. We asked a series of questions to centre the opportunities and limits to intersex joy, like 'what are the limits to joy or accessing joy?' and 'in what ways can intersex embodiment be a source of strength, affirmation and celebration?'. The article also …
Introducing the special issue
While intersex studies and activism understandably focus on violence, trauma and anger to fight against the myriad forms of interphobia, various intersex people, scholars and activists seem to be turning to joy to resist deficit frameworks. Responding to this turn, our introduction to the special issue 'On Intersex Joy' unpacks and theorises the potential of placing intersex studies in conversation with feminist theorisations of joy and happiness…
There's a lot of DIY joy
In this article, we reflect on experiences of gender euphoria and do-it-yourself (DIY) queer joy during a collage-making workshop with an intergenerational group of 2SLGBTQIA+ participants and researchers. The workshop is part of a larger participatory visual research project called Pride/Swell±an initiative that has been bringing together queer and trans people from across Atlantic Canada to make art since 2020. During an in-person workshop with…
Exploring Sexuality Education Through Play and Queer Joy with Rural Early Childhood Teachers
How might we reimagine early childhood sexuality education so that queer joy flourishes in these spaces through play? In this work, we come together as two queer researchers and ask how we might inhabit both play and queer joy to create a space where children can engage in queerer worldmaking and disrupt adult norms about sexuality, bodies, and identities in ECE classrooms. We describe how we engaged a group of 13 ECE teachers from a rural New Br…
Sociology (20 obras) · Gender Studies (16 obras) · Queer (14 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (11 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Citizen journalism (9 obras) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (8 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Pedagogy (8 obras)