Taking a Moment for Life

Remembering Black Queer Lives Through Performance

Bibliographic Data

ID2409025
AuthorsDurell M Callier (0000-0002-1402-4519)
Year2020
Volume20
Issue4
Pages350-357
Publication date2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708620911406
OpenAlexW3017946793
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited19

This essay foregrounds Black and queer youth stories of encountering and surviving violence, as reenacted through Tell It!: A Contemporary Chorale for Black Youth Voices. A performance ethnography, Tell It! draws from narratives on the bullying experienced inside and outside K-12 schooling contexts, and narratives of anti-Black and anti-queer violence. Throughout the essay, I argue for the reframing of anti-Black and anti-queer violence as mutually constitutive, coalescing within and through educative spaces and practices. Reflecting on the staged performance of Tell It!, I demonstrate how and why performances of Black and queer youth narratives enable the valuing of these lives and experiences. Rooted in the lives of Black and queer youth, this essay expands educational theory and practice by exploring how the coupling of queer pedagogy, race, and performance creates possibilities for new and different (queer) futures

Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive reframing · Ethnography · Literature · Narrative · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Gender Studies · Social Psychology