Mollie V Blackburn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 90361 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mollie V Blackburn |
| PRENOMES | Mollie V |
| SOBRENOME | Blackburn |
| ASSINATURA | BLACKBURN M V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9128-9406 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Queer Literacies
Understanding queer literacies demands some awareness of queer theory and a compatible understanding of literacies. Queer theory relies on the suspension of classification, particularly but not solely in terms of sex and gender, which are understood as multiple, variable, and fluid. Binaries are troubled, and cisheteronormativity is interrogated, subverted, and disrupted. The limits of whiteness, however, are pronounced and queer scholars of colo…
Censorship as Placemaking
In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of book challenges in educational contexts in the United States. Books representing sexual and gender diversity have been particularly targeted, as have books by and about people of color. Further, many states restrict or censor curricula and discussions of sexual and gender diversity, as well as race, ethnicity, politics, and history. Inspired by previous scholarship on censorship…
The consequences of intimacy, oppression, and activism on gendered power relations in a high school LGBTQ +‐themed literature class
School‐based supports, such as LGBTQ+‐themed curriculum, invite opportunities for challenging oppression with respect to gender and its intersections with other identities such as sexuality and race. However, more understanding is needed regarding how literacy educators might leverage these opportunities. This article describes how intimacy, oppressive actions, and activism functioned in relation to one another in an LGBTQ+‐themed literature cour…
Troubling emotional discomfort
Queer Ruptures of Normative Literacy Practices
Preview this article: Queer Ruptures of Normative Literacy Practices: Toward Visualizing, Hypothesizing, and Empathizing, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/rte/54/1/researchintheteachingofenglish30241-1.gif
The power of multiple voices
Investigating LGBT-themed literature and trans informed pedagogies in classrooms
Scenes of violence and sex in recent award-winning LGBT-themed young adult novels and the ideologies they offer their readers
This study examines LGBT-inclusive and queering discourses in five recent award-winning LGBT-themed young adult books. The analysis brought scenes of violence and sex/love scenes to the fore. Violent scenes offered readers messages that LGBT people are either the victims of violence-fueled hatred and fear, or, in some cases, showed a gay person asserting agency by imposing violence on a violent homophobe. In contrast, sex and/or love scenes offer…
Supernatural, and Occasionally Queer, Youth
Battis's edited volume Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Popular Culture argues that supernatural youth in novels, television shows, and comics offer inspiration for marginalized adolescents, particularly those marginalized by heteronormativity. This argument is well supported by almost half of the chapters; those chapters are discussed in most detail in this review. Most of the remaining chapters are also discussed, albeit more br…
Analyzing Talk in a Long‐Term Literature Discussion Group
Scholars have argued for reading and discussing children's and young adult literature containing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or questioning (LGBTQ) characters and related themes with youths. Yet, we know very little about how to do this among LGBTQ people and their allies. This study examined 18 transcripts of talk from a literature discussion group of 32 adolescents and adults, including the authors, using 24 texts over three years …
Moving Beyond the Inclusion of LGBT‐Themed Literature in English Language Arts Classrooms
Queer Girls and Popular Culture
This article reviews Driver's monograph, Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media, reporting on queer girls’ active engagement with television characters, films, lesbian magazines, online communities, and music. She explores the consequences of their engagements with these media on their lives and their understandings of popular culture and themselves
From Chasm to Conversation
This essay book review of the Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research and Meeting the Challenge of Adolescent Literacy: Research We Have, Research We Need is framed as an argument for dialogism and understanding across differences in the field of adolescent literacy. We focus on the contents of the two volumes by considering three key issues: sponsorship, identity, and agency. We conclude by offering possibilities for understanding the field of …
Rethinking Classroom Participation
Voices of Queer Youth in Urban Schools
This article reviews scholarship that represents urban students who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning. It draws on empirical examples to illustrate prominent themes across this scholarship, including the homophobia they experience, the impact it has on their academic performance, and the activism it sparks. Finally, it considers implications for urban educators working with queer youth, specifically, the …
Risky, Generous, Gender Work
At the 2005 NCTE Annual Convention in Pittsburgh, Mollie Blackburn received the Alan C. Purves Award, given each RTE volume year for an article that holds particular promise to enhance classroom practice. Professor Blackburn’s award-winning article, “Disrupting Dichotomies for Social Change: A Review of, Critique of, and Complement to Current Scholarship on Gender and Literacy,” appeared in the May 2005 issue of RTE. In the essay that follows, sh…
Agency in Borderland Discourses
This article focuses on the ways in which a small group consisting mostly of Black queer youth makes sense of their use of language to assert agency in a world that is often heterosexist, homophobic, ageist, and racist. The author draws from the work of Gee and Anzaldúa to identify what youth call “Gaybonics,” as a Borderland Discourse that is intertwined with Ebonics. The author and youth worked together in a youth-run center for lesbian, gay, b…
Teaching Queer‐Inclusive English Language Arts
The authors argue for teaching queer‐inclusive English language arts (ELA). They report on a study that surveyed high school personnel across the United States, revealing that very few people in charge of ELA curricula value such inclusion. In response to these findings, the authors offer “images of the possible” in which texts and methods that could be used in queer‐inclusive ELA curricula are suggested. They advocate for teaching ELA that repre…
This Issue
Understanding Agency Beyond School Sanctioned Activities
This article reviews literature that portrays lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students both as victims of heterosexism and homophobia as well as agents, or ones who exert power, for change in schools. It complicates this literature by focusing on three youth who deal with the oppressions they experience in quite different ways and in ways that are not always sanctioned by schools. It challenges educators to recognize …
This Issue
Understanding Agency Beyond School-Sanctioned Activities
This article reviews literature that portrays lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students both as victims of heterosexism and homophobia as well as agents, or ones who exert power, for change in schools. It complicates this literature by focusing on three youth who deal with the oppressions they experience in quite different ways and in ways that are not always sanctioned by schools. It challenges educators to recognize …
Exploring Literacy Performances and Power Dynamics at The Loft
This study draws on queer theory, critical feminism, Critical Race Theory, and New Literacy Studies to explore the ways in which queer youth read and wrote words and worlds in ways that both challenged and reinforced power dynamics in and beyond a youth-run center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth
Boys and literacies
Book reviewed in this article: Boys and Literacy: Exploring the Issues . By Trisha Maynard. 2002. Boys, Literacies and Schooling: The Dangerous Territories of Gender‐based Literacy Reform . By Leonie Rowan, Michele Knobel, Chris Bigum, and Colin Lankshear. 2002. “Reading Don't Fix No Chevys”: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men . By Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm. 2002. To Be a Boy, To Be a Reader: Engaging Teen and Preteen Boys in Active…
Voices of Queer Youth in Urban Schools
This article reviews scholarship that represents urban students who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning. It draws on empirical examples to illustrate prominent themes across this scholarship, including the homophobia they experience, the impact it has on their academic performance, and the activism it sparks. Finally, it considers implications for urban educators working with queer youth, specifically, the …
Analyzing Talk in a Long‐Term Literature Discussion Group
Scholars have argued for reading and discussing children's and young adult literature containing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or questioning (LGBTQ) characters and related themes with youths. Yet, we know very little about how to do this among LGBTQ people and their allies. This study examined 18 transcripts of talk from a literature discussion group of 32 adolescents and adults, including the authors, using 24 texts over three years …
Understanding Agency Beyond School Sanctioned Activities
This article reviews literature that portrays lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students both as victims of heterosexism and homophobia as well as agents, or ones who exert power, for change in schools. It complicates this literature by focusing on three youth who deal with the oppressions they experience in quite different ways and in ways that are not always sanctioned by schools. It challenges educators to recognize …
Scenes of violence and sex in recent award-winning LGBT-themed young adult novels and the ideologies they offer their readers
This study examines LGBT-inclusive and queering discourses in five recent award-winning LGBT-themed young adult books. The analysis brought scenes of violence and sex/love scenes to the fore. Violent scenes offered readers messages that LGBT people are either the victims of violence-fueled hatred and fear, or, in some cases, showed a gay person asserting agency by imposing violence on a violent homophobe. In contrast, sex and/or love scenes offer…
Investigating LGBT-themed literature and trans informed pedagogies in classrooms
Troubling emotional discomfort
Queer Girls and Popular Culture
This article reviews Driver's monograph, Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media, reporting on queer girls’ active engagement with television characters, films, lesbian magazines, online communities, and music. She explores the consequences of their engagements with these media on their lives and their understandings of popular culture and themselves
This Issue
This Issue
Understanding Agency Beyond School-Sanctioned Activities
This article reviews literature that portrays lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students both as victims of heterosexism and homophobia as well as agents, or ones who exert power, for change in schools. It complicates this literature by focusing on three youth who deal with the oppressions they experience in quite different ways and in ways that are not always sanctioned by schools. It challenges educators to recognize …
Exploring Literacy Performances and Power Dynamics at The Loft
This study draws on queer theory, critical feminism, Critical Race Theory, and New Literacy Studies to explore the ways in which queer youth read and wrote words and worlds in ways that both challenged and reinforced power dynamics in and beyond a youth-run center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth
Boys and literacies
Book reviewed in this article: Boys and Literacy: Exploring the Issues . By Trisha Maynard. 2002. Boys, Literacies and Schooling: The Dangerous Territories of Gender‐based Literacy Reform . By Leonie Rowan, Michele Knobel, Chris Bigum, and Colin Lankshear. 2002. “Reading Don't Fix No Chevys”: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men . By Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm. 2002. To Be a Boy, To Be a Reader: Engaging Teen and Preteen Boys in Active…
This Issue
Understanding Agency Beyond School Sanctioned Activities
This article reviews literature that portrays lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students both as victims of heterosexism and homophobia as well as agents, or ones who exert power, for change in schools. It complicates this literature by focusing on three youth who deal with the oppressions they experience in quite different ways and in ways that are not always sanctioned by schools. It challenges educators to recognize …
This Issue
Understanding Agency Beyond School-Sanctioned Activities
This article reviews literature that portrays lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students both as victims of heterosexism and homophobia as well as agents, or ones who exert power, for change in schools. It complicates this literature by focusing on three youth who deal with the oppressions they experience in quite different ways and in ways that are not always sanctioned by schools. It challenges educators to recognize …
Agency in Borderland Discourses
This article focuses on the ways in which a small group consisting mostly of Black queer youth makes sense of their use of language to assert agency in a world that is often heterosexist, homophobic, ageist, and racist. The author draws from the work of Gee and Anzaldúa to identify what youth call “Gaybonics,” as a Borderland Discourse that is intertwined with Ebonics. The author and youth worked together in a youth-run center for lesbian, gay, b…
Teaching Queer‐Inclusive English Language Arts
The authors argue for teaching queer‐inclusive English language arts (ELA). They report on a study that surveyed high school personnel across the United States, revealing that very few people in charge of ELA curricula value such inclusion. In response to these findings, the authors offer “images of the possible” in which texts and methods that could be used in queer‐inclusive ELA curricula are suggested. They advocate for teaching ELA that repre…
Risky, Generous, Gender Work
At the 2005 NCTE Annual Convention in Pittsburgh, Mollie Blackburn received the Alan C. Purves Award, given each RTE volume year for an article that holds particular promise to enhance classroom practice. Professor Blackburn’s award-winning article, “Disrupting Dichotomies for Social Change: A Review of, Critique of, and Complement to Current Scholarship on Gender and Literacy,” appeared in the May 2005 issue of RTE. In the essay that follows, sh…
Voices of Queer Youth in Urban Schools
This article reviews scholarship that represents urban students who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning. It draws on empirical examples to illustrate prominent themes across this scholarship, including the homophobia they experience, the impact it has on their academic performance, and the activism it sparks. Finally, it considers implications for urban educators working with queer youth, specifically, the …
Moving Beyond the Inclusion of LGBT‐Themed Literature in English Language Arts Classrooms
Queer Girls and Popular Culture
This article reviews Driver's monograph, Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media, reporting on queer girls’ active engagement with television characters, films, lesbian magazines, online communities, and music. She explores the consequences of their engagements with these media on their lives and their understandings of popular culture and themselves
From Chasm to Conversation
This essay book review of the Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research and Meeting the Challenge of Adolescent Literacy: Research We Have, Research We Need is framed as an argument for dialogism and understanding across differences in the field of adolescent literacy. We focus on the contents of the two volumes by considering three key issues: sponsorship, identity, and agency. We conclude by offering possibilities for understanding the field of …
Rethinking Classroom Participation
Analyzing Talk in a Long‐Term Literature Discussion Group
Scholars have argued for reading and discussing children's and young adult literature containing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or questioning (LGBTQ) characters and related themes with youths. Yet, we know very little about how to do this among LGBTQ people and their allies. This study examined 18 transcripts of talk from a literature discussion group of 32 adolescents and adults, including the authors, using 24 texts over three years …
Supernatural, and Occasionally Queer, Youth
Battis's edited volume Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Popular Culture argues that supernatural youth in novels, television shows, and comics offer inspiration for marginalized adolescents, particularly those marginalized by heteronormativity. This argument is well supported by almost half of the chapters; those chapters are discussed in most detail in this review. Most of the remaining chapters are also discussed, albeit more br…
The power of multiple voices
Investigating LGBT-themed literature and trans informed pedagogies in classrooms
Scenes of violence and sex in recent award-winning LGBT-themed young adult novels and the ideologies they offer their readers
This study examines LGBT-inclusive and queering discourses in five recent award-winning LGBT-themed young adult books. The analysis brought scenes of violence and sex/love scenes to the fore. Violent scenes offered readers messages that LGBT people are either the victims of violence-fueled hatred and fear, or, in some cases, showed a gay person asserting agency by imposing violence on a violent homophobe. In contrast, sex and/or love scenes offer…
Queer Ruptures of Normative Literacy Practices
Preview this article: Queer Ruptures of Normative Literacy Practices: Toward Visualizing, Hypothesizing, and Empathizing, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/rte/54/1/researchintheteachingofenglish30241-1.gif
Troubling emotional discomfort
The consequences of intimacy, oppression, and activism on gendered power relations in a high school LGBTQ +‐themed literature class
School‐based supports, such as LGBTQ+‐themed curriculum, invite opportunities for challenging oppression with respect to gender and its intersections with other identities such as sexuality and race. However, more understanding is needed regarding how literacy educators might leverage these opportunities. This article describes how intimacy, oppressive actions, and activism functioned in relation to one another in an LGBTQ+‐themed literature cour…
Queer Literacies
Understanding queer literacies demands some awareness of queer theory and a compatible understanding of literacies. Queer theory relies on the suspension of classification, particularly but not solely in terms of sex and gender, which are understood as multiple, variable, and fluid. Binaries are troubled, and cisheteronormativity is interrogated, subverted, and disrupted. The limits of whiteness, however, are pronounced and queer scholars of colo…
Censorship as Placemaking
In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of book challenges in educational contexts in the United States. Books representing sexual and gender diversity have been particularly targeted, as have books by and about people of color. Further, many states restrict or censor curricula and discussions of sexual and gender diversity, as well as race, ethnicity, politics, and history. Inspired by previous scholarship on censorship…
Sociology (23 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Gender Studies (14 obras) · Pedagogy (14 obras) · Queer (11 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (9 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Lesbian (6 obras)