Y Taylor
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 8411 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Y Taylor |
| NOMBRES | Y |
| APELLIDO | Taylor |
| FIRMA | TAYLOR Y |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9260-5597 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 175 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Queer capitals in universities
Gateways, Gaps, and Queer Fieldwork
This research note explores methodological dimensions of conducting queer research in rural Scotland. Drawing on long-term engagement with LGBTQ+ communities in the Highlands, I reflect on the complexities of fieldwork, particularly around presence, participation, and absence. In organising a Queer Social Justice workshop, I interrogate the epistemic weight of the ‘non-event’ and question models of success in field-based research. My reflections …
LGBTQ+ carers in UK universities
This paper focuses on LGBTQ+ carers in UK universities and explores how policy problems become personalized. While equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) policies increasingly anticipate LGBTQ+ presence, they often individualize systemic issues. Recognition in care policy may offer symbolic visibility, yet interviewees are routinely expected to embody and enact care themselves – absorbing institutional responsibilities informally and at personal…
“It’s Your Word Against Mine”
Although a number of laws, protocols and plans have been passed in Spain in the last 10 years to support gender diversity in education, they still have not been fully implemented in schools. In this paper we describe the case of Arturo, a trans boy, and the various negotiations he went through in his secondary school for 2 years. We used a thematic analysis to identify the negotiations involving educational staff, teachers and students based on 6…
Queer-class repetitions & interruptions
This piece responds to the Queer Precarities workshop and its invitations and provocations to think back through and forward to questions of class and sexuality, and as navigated by feminist geographers. I think thorough the situatedness of academic (re)productions as always occurring in time and place, when new terms and articulations may repeat or disguise. Precarity as a term of now may act to displace class as a term of then – or ‘them’ – rai…
All imposters in the university? Striking (out) claims on academic Twitter
The UK government LGBT Action Plan
The LGBT Action Plan (2018) represents a significant UK government commitment towards LGBTQI+ equalities, operating in conjunction with cumulative legislative advances. Yet there is room for critique within this Plan, as proposed actions and as celebratory rhetoric of lives ‘getting better’. Using empirical examples, this article examines how ‘progress’ for LGBTQI+ lives is discursively constructed and positioned in the LGBT Action Plan and accom…
Student estrangement in higher education
While investigation on family estrangement is growing within academic circles, research regarding the interconnection between experiences of estrangement and higher education (HE) is still limited. Sociological understandings of these issues are even scarcer, with policy interventions and practical guidance forming early interventions in HE. Set within the context of Scotland, this paper explores the experiences of HE students who are estranged f…
Queer liveability
This article explores queer religious youths’ engagement with the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) – a church founded as a space of worship for LGBT Christians. Interested in sources of well-being in queer people’s lives, we show how MCC provided young religious queer people with a sense of home, family, and a phenomenological experience of ‘fit’ and ‘ease’. We connect to literature on the subjectivization of religion and suggest that MCC is a…
Dangerous Education
This article sets out the ways in which primary schools have come to bear significant risks in making decisions over whether, how and when to reflect transgender issues. We examine press reporting that arose in relation to a recent incident in the UK in which a primary school in East Sussex was widely criticised for instigating a 'transgender education' initiative. We argue that despite tacit indications that UK Government supports 'transgender e…
Mediating aspirant religious-sexual futures
Religion and sexuality frequently collide in the legislative and popular imagination and realisations of citizenship status are negotiated in an increasingly secular UK context. The supposed decline of religion may be conflated with an increased entitlement to sexual citizenship for LGBTQ groups. Such a conflation sidelines the citizenship possibilities and realities negotiated by queer religious youth in imagining future forms of employment and …
Higher education students’ experiences of digital learning and (dis)empowerment
This paper focuses on learning practices in higher education in relation to a digital participatory culture. Using key principles of critical education, the research set out to explore higher education students’ sense of agency online – or lack of it –as part of their formal learning practices. The research found that although students were proficient Web users, they did not exercise their learner agency beyond what they assumed to be expected of…
Getting on? Doing sexuality then and now
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Feminist collaborations in higher education
Categorical career stages offer an institutional framework through which mobilities can be claimed and contested by feminists in academia. Inhabiting career stages uncritically can serve to reproduce neoliberal academic structures that feminists may seek to resist. Collaboration across career stages is a significant empirical case for understanding how feminists occupy academic space. We use auto-ethnographic methods to read career stages and fem…
Negotiating queer and religious identities in higher education
This article addresses the negotiation of ‘queer religious’ student identities in UK higher education. The ‘university experience’ has generally been characterised as a period of intense transformation and self-exploration, with complex and overlapping personal and social influences significantly shaping educational spaces, subjects and subjectivities. Engaging with ideas about progressive tolerance and becoming, often contrasted against ‘backwar…
Introduction
Mediating 'Aspirant' Religious-Sexual Futures
This paper explores the construction of vocational and familial futures, in times of 'aspiring', 'post-welfare,' or 'crisis' youth transitions, as mediated by sexual-religious identification. By considering the intersectional relations of both sexuality and religion in constructing young people's aspirations, the paper highlights pragmatic and caring orientations, including a 'calling' to religion as a site of present-future vocational and famili…
The ‘Outness' of Queer
This chapter suggests that queer could usefully re-orientate itself to a more empirically-grounded focus on material impossibilities. It draws upon a research on lesbian and gay parents from working and middle-class backgrounds to situate the complexities, complications, and important intersections emerging from absences in queer agendas. The chapter aims to point towards some of the dangers of ignoring class in queer methodologies; empirical dat…
Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth
Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth charts young people's understanding of religion, investigating the experiences, choices and identities of queer - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
Sexualities, creativities and contemporary publics
Seedy bars and grotty pints
This paper is based on the British Academy project 'Not all bright lights and big city?' (2008–2010), which explores the diverse and divided lives of lesbians and gay men in the north-east of England. Here, we focus on the 'close encounters' between material culture and place, within queer leisure spaces (Binnie, 2014; Binnie & Skeggs, 2004; Brown, 2013; Lim, 2007, 2010; Lim & Fanghanel, 2013; Nash & Gorman-Murray, 2014). We build on existing geo…
Introduction to the special issue
This Special Issue explores how religious identity and practice interplays with sexuality. It deliberately foregrounds attentiveness to a diversity of places and positions, as both ‘early career’, often emerging from PhD research, and as 'international', extending across the UK, Canada, Israel, Malaysia and Belgium. Of course the latter intention of being and doing 'international' arguably always fails, but it hoped that this Issue allows for som…
Sounding Religious, Sounding Queer
This paper explores the role music plays in ‘queer-identifying religious youth’ worship, including attitudes to ‘progressive’ and ‘traditional’ musical sounds and styles. It looks at approaches taken by inclusive non-denominational churches (such as the Metropolitan Community Church, mcc ), to reconcile different, and at times conflicting, identities of its members. Focusing on ‘spaces of reconciliation’ we bring together the embodied experience …
Intersecting family lives
Introduction
In this special section of Families, Relationships and Societies, we present six contributions that discuss novel, original research findings surrounding the theme of intimacies, families and practices of consumption. They are versions of presentations originally given in February 2013 to a combined meeting of the British Sociological Association's Family and Interpersonal Relationships Study Group and the Leisure and Recreation Study Group. The …
Queer youth, Facebook and faith
‘Making space for queer-identifying religious youth’ (2011–2013) is an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded project, which seeks to shed light on youth cultures, queer community and religiosity. While non-heterosexuality is often associated with secularism, and some sources cast religion as automatically negative or harmful to the realisation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) identity (or ‘coming out’), we explore how…
Complexities and Complications
I explore some questions and dilemmas raised by considering social class, gender, and sexuality within the same interconnecting research framework. I begin with attention to the theoretical development of intersectionality, arising from feminist conceptualizations of "differences that matter," and the ways these are included in or excluded from research agendas. Arguing that interconnections between class and sexuality have often been neglected i…
Seedy bars and grotty pints
This paper is based on the British Academy project 'Not all bright lights and big city?' (2008–2010), which explores the diverse and divided lives of lesbians and gay men in the north-east of England. Here, we focus on the 'close encounters' between material culture and place, within queer leisure spaces (Binnie, 2014; Binnie & Skeggs, 2004; Brown, 2013; Lim, 2007, 2010; Lim & Fanghanel, 2013; Nash & Gorman-Murray, 2014). We build on existing geo…
Negotiation and Navigation - an Exploration of the Spaces/Places of Working-class Lesbians
This article draws upon my research on working-class lesbians, which explores the relationship between class, sexuality and social exclusion. Research participants were drawn mainly from Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Highlands), with smaller samples in Yorkshire and Manchester; in total fifty-three women took part, most being interviewed individually, others as part of three focus groups, and a couple in 'paired' interviews. The significan…
Feminist collaborations in higher education
Categorical career stages offer an institutional framework through which mobilities can be claimed and contested by feminists in academia. Inhabiting career stages uncritically can serve to reproduce neoliberal academic structures that feminists may seek to resist. Collaboration across career stages is a significant empirical case for understanding how feminists occupy academic space. We use auto-ethnographic methods to read career stages and fem…
Placing Research
This article raises questions about who becomes the proper subject for (non)academic attention in a time when 'city publics' might be positioned as democratising and open or, conversely, as curtailed and shaped through specific and pre-determined economies of value and use. The use of the city and its residents are echoed in regeneration politics and objectives, attached to and brought forward by specific 'regenerative' subjects, now deemed 'resi…
Negotiating queer and religious identities in higher education
This article addresses the negotiation of ‘queer religious’ student identities in UK higher education. The ‘university experience’ has generally been characterised as a period of intense transformation and self-exploration, with complex and overlapping personal and social influences significantly shaping educational spaces, subjects and subjectivities. Engaging with ideas about progressive tolerance and becoming, often contrasted against ‘backwar…
Intersections, Divisions, and Distinctions
While there is a growing body of research which explores the dramatic changes of higher education, following recent policies of widening participation and ‘internationalisation’, to date much of the research has focused on discrete ‘non-traditional’ groups. Based on qualitative data gathered from international and widening participation students, we explore the crossovers and parallels of their experiences, which is not to say that both groups ar…
Intersections of class and sexuality in the classroom
This research note aims to address concerns about schools as sites where students wrestle, materially and subjectively, with classed based notions of femininity, the promotion of heterosexuality, and the support of hetero‐normative, middle class families against and in contrast with their own working class families, identities and experiences. Two relatively neglected issues in education, those of sexuality and class, are addressed in order to hi…
All imposters in the university? Striking (out) claims on academic Twitter
The UK government LGBT Action Plan
The LGBT Action Plan (2018) represents a significant UK government commitment towards LGBTQI+ equalities, operating in conjunction with cumulative legislative advances. Yet there is room for critique within this Plan, as proposed actions and as celebratory rhetoric of lives ‘getting better’. Using empirical examples, this article examines how ‘progress’ for LGBTQI+ lives is discursively constructed and positioned in the LGBT Action Plan and accom…
Close encounters of the classed kind. Again
Real politik or real politics? Working-class lesbians' political ‘awareness’ and activism
The Gap and how to Mind It
This research note is grounded in the findings of my PhD thesis 'Working-class lesbians: classed in a classless climate' (2004), which examines the significance of class and sexuality in the lives of women who self-identify themselves as working-class and lesbian, who are necessarily, unavoidably, painfully and pleasurably, living out the intersection of class and sexuality. I aim to offer an oversight of the project, taking account of the materi…
Making Space for Young Lesbians in Church? Intersectional Sites, Scripts, and Sticking Points
This article is a case-study exploration of Christianity and sexuality in the lives of young lesbians in the United Kingdom. Religion matters as a personal and political force, but secularizing trends arguably obscure its influence on the complex convergence and intersection of personal, political, familial, and institutional realms (Brierley, 2006; Heelas and Woodhead, 2005). While the question of homosexuality has been a central focus in much d…
Queer presences and absences
II. Classed in a Classless Climate
Lesbian and gay parents' sexual citizenship
This article draws upon research with 60 white lesbian and gay parents from working-class and middle-class backgrounds, to consider the significance of class in the struggle for sexual citizenship in the context of the UK Civil Partnership Act (2004). While parenting is distinct from issues of partnering they are clearly related, not least in the ways that such policies themselves materialise families, offering new possibilities for societal reco…
Accessions
This brief viewpoint piece depicts educational (dis)engagements apparent in researching and (re)designing higher education in and through Accessions. Accessions, a collaborative research-design project, probed at how cultures, climates and conditions of higher education may be reproducing or reshaping social inequalities and divisions. Here, questions are asked about how these might be challenged within and potentially beyond the specific locale …
Dangerous Education
This article sets out the ways in which primary schools have come to bear significant risks in making decisions over whether, how and when to reflect transgender issues. We examine press reporting that arose in relation to a recent incident in the UK in which a primary school in East Sussex was widely criticised for instigating a 'transgender education' initiative. We argue that despite tacit indications that UK Government supports 'transgender e…
Compelling diversities, educational intersections
The ninth international Gender and Education Association Conference Compelling Diversities, Educational Intersections hosted by the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University engages with key debates surrounding the interplay between dynamics of education, work, employment and society in the context of crisis, upheaval and cutbacks, which reconfigure axes of intersectional inequalities. In considering diversity in e…
Intersectional dialogues - a politics of possibility
In this short piece I hope to draw attention to the location of class within debates over lesbian feminism and queer theory, acknowledging some intellectual legacies, departures and points of intersection. My thoughts in constructing this paper on the relevancies – or otherwise – of lesbian feminism today, and the potential erasures and enduring legacies of and within this, were one of panic and inspiration: could I effectively capture a moment t…
Stories to Tell? Reflexive (Dis)engagements and (De)legitimized Selves
This article aims to tell a story about the politics of storytelling and the complexity of care. But it is not (completely) a "good" story: It is frayed in its unraveling, and its characters are on edge, in their varied states of disbelief, and misbelief. And an authorial ambivalence exists about its depth, reach and significance, about whether the pronounced pain does justice to a particular methodological approach and to a specific set of socio…
Re)constituting the past, (re)branding the present and (re)imagining the future
The themes of mobility and transformation occupy centre stage in many sociological accounts, where ‘movement’ references people and places in ‘new’ times, often without situating how movements may actually be embedding or reconstituting inequalities, spatially, culturally and materially. Attention to how gender and class may be reconfigured queries straightforward notions of change, even ‘crisis’, pointing towards the reshaping of exclusions and …
Brushed behind the bike shed
This article aims to address concerns about schools as locations where students grapple, materially and subjectively, with class‐based notions of femininity, the promotion of heterosexuality and the support of hetero‐normative, middle‐class families against, and in contrast with, their own working‐class families, identities and experiences. Two interconnecting but relatively neglected issues in education, those of sexuality and class, are address…
Negotiation and Navigation - an Exploration of the Spaces/Places of Working-class Lesbians
This article draws upon my research on working-class lesbians, which explores the relationship between class, sexuality and social exclusion. Research participants were drawn mainly from Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Highlands), with smaller samples in Yorkshire and Manchester; in total fifty-three women took part, most being interviewed individually, others as part of three focus groups, and a couple in 'paired' interviews. The significan…
Inclusion, Exclusion, Exclusive? Sexual Citizenship and the Repeal of Section 28/2a
II. Classed in a Classless Climate
Real politik or real politics? Working-class lesbians' political ‘awareness’ and activism
The Gap and how to Mind It
This research note is grounded in the findings of my PhD thesis 'Working-class lesbians: classed in a classless climate' (2004), which examines the significance of class and sexuality in the lives of women who self-identify themselves as working-class and lesbian, who are necessarily, unavoidably, painfully and pleasurably, living out the intersection of class and sexuality. I aim to offer an oversight of the project, taking account of the materi…
Intersections of class and sexuality in the classroom
This research note aims to address concerns about schools as sites where students wrestle, materially and subjectively, with classed based notions of femininity, the promotion of heterosexuality, and the support of hetero‐normative, middle class families against and in contrast with their own working class families, identities and experiences. Two relatively neglected issues in education, those of sexuality and class, are addressed in order to hi…
Poor Transitions
Working-Class Lesbian Life
This is an original study of women self-identified as working-class and lesbian, showing the significance of class and sexuality in their biographies, everyday lives and identities. It provides insigh
‘If Your Face Doesn’t Fit...’
This article makes use of the concept of 'misrecognition' to convey the ways that working‐class lesbians are rendered unentitled to occupy commercialized scene space, focussing mainly on the UK cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester. The article is based upon an ESRC funded study of working‐class lesbians, which examines the significance of class and sexuality in the lives of women who self‐identify themselves as working‐class and lesbian. H…
Brushed behind the bike shed
This article aims to address concerns about schools as locations where students grapple, materially and subjectively, with class‐based notions of femininity, the promotion of heterosexuality and the support of hetero‐normative, middle‐class families against, and in contrast with, their own working‐class families, identities and experiences. Two interconnecting but relatively neglected issues in education, those of sexuality and class, are address…
Sexualities and Consumption
Sexuality and consumption are interlinked in powerful and significant ways, perhaps even more so in contemporary, even “postmodern,” times, shaping various material and subjective possibilities and impossibilities, as sexuality is displayed and regulated via consumption. Consumption refers to a wide variety of spending patterns and behaviors and is typically equated with “choice”; what we choose to buy, where and when, and how we choose to use pu…
Sibling Identity and Relationships (Relationships and Resources S)
'That's Not Really My Scene'
In this article I consider working-class lesbians' views and experiences of commercialized scene space as these venues change in light of social, economic and political developments. Working-class lesbians both participated in and felt excluded from scene spaces, often criticizing them as 'pretentious' and 'unreal' for their cosmopolitan gloss. In this upgrading a politicized perspective was believed to have been sacrificed or in jeopardy, threat…
The tip of the iceberg
In this article I provide an overview of the methodological approaches of the Victoria Climbié Data Corpus Project, which aims to provide researchers, educators and policy makers with an invaluable source of data, based upon the coding of witness statements given to the Victoria Climbié Inquiry. I assess my own research role within this, making a case for the need to incorporate more grounded theory techniques, research reflexivity and subjective…
Re)constituting the past, (re)branding the present and (re)imagining the future
The themes of mobility and transformation occupy centre stage in many sociological accounts, where ‘movement’ references people and places in ‘new’ times, often without situating how movements may actually be embedding or reconstituting inequalities, spatially, culturally and materially. Attention to how gender and class may be reconfigured queries straightforward notions of change, even ‘crisis’, pointing towards the reshaping of exclusions and …
Complexities and Complications
I explore some questions and dilemmas raised by considering social class, gender, and sexuality within the same interconnecting research framework. I begin with attention to the theoretical development of intersectionality, arising from feminist conceptualizations of "differences that matter," and the ways these are included in or excluded from research agendas. Arguing that interconnections between class and sexuality have often been neglected i…
Stories to Tell? Reflexive (Dis)engagements and (De)legitimized Selves
This article aims to tell a story about the politics of storytelling and the complexity of care. But it is not (completely) a "good" story: It is frayed in its unraveling, and its characters are on edge, in their varied states of disbelief, and misbelief. And an authorial ambivalence exists about its depth, reach and significance, about whether the pronounced pain does justice to a particular methodological approach and to a specific set of socio…
Sexualities and class
Sexuality frequently neglects class studies, just as class analysis ignores sexualities. This special issue of the journal Sexualities aims to open debates on class and sexuality with four original research studies on class and sex, along with four commentaries from leading experts in the field
Intersections, Divisions, and Distinctions
While there is a growing body of research which explores the dramatic changes of higher education, following recent policies of widening participation and ‘internationalisation’, to date much of the research has focused on discrete ‘non-traditional’ groups. Based on qualitative data gathered from international and widening participation students, we explore the crossovers and parallels of their experiences, which is not to say that both groups ar…
Lesbian and gay parents' sexual citizenship
This article draws upon research with 60 white lesbian and gay parents from working-class and middle-class backgrounds, to consider the significance of class in the struggle for sexual citizenship in the context of the UK Civil Partnership Act (2004). While parenting is distinct from issues of partnering they are clearly related, not least in the ways that such policies themselves materialise families, offering new possibilities for societal reco…
Intersectional dialogues - a politics of possibility
In this short piece I hope to draw attention to the location of class within debates over lesbian feminism and queer theory, acknowledging some intellectual legacies, departures and points of intersection. My thoughts in constructing this paper on the relevancies – or otherwise – of lesbian feminism today, and the potential erasures and enduring legacies of and within this, were one of panic and inspiration: could I effectively capture a moment t…
Accessions
This brief viewpoint piece depicts educational (dis)engagements apparent in researching and (re)designing higher education in and through Accessions. Accessions, a collaborative research-design project, probed at how cultures, climates and conditions of higher education may be reproducing or reshaping social inequalities and divisions. Here, questions are asked about how these might be challenged within and potentially beyond the specific locale …
Author Response to Editor
Queer presences and absences
Placing Research
This article raises questions about who becomes the proper subject for (non)academic attention in a time when 'city publics' might be positioned as democratising and open or, conversely, as curtailed and shaped through specific and pre-determined economies of value and use. The use of the city and its residents are echoed in regeneration politics and objectives, attached to and brought forward by specific 'regenerative' subjects, now deemed 'resi…
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