Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth

1. Introduction: The Role of Recognition
sj Miller

2. Why a Queer Literacy Framework Matters: Models for Sustaining (A)Gender Self-Determination and Justice in Today’s Schooling Practices
sj Miller

3. Teaching Our Teachers: Trans* and Gender Education in Teacher Preparation and Professional Development
Cathy A. R. Brant

4. Kindergartners Studying Trans* Issues Through I Am Jazz

Ashley Lauren Sullivan, A. L. Sullivan

5. Beyond This or That: Challenging the Limits of Binary Language in Elementary Education Through Poetry, Word Art, and Creative Bookmaking
benjamin lee hicks

6. The Teacher as a Text: Un-centering Normative Gender Identities in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom
Kate E. Kedley

7. The T* in LGBT*: Disrupting Gender Normative School Culture Through Young Adult Literature
Katherine Mason Cramer, Jill Adams

8. Risks and Resiliency: Trans* Students in the Rural South
Stephanie Anne Shelton, Aryah O’Tiss S. Lester

9. Introducing (A)gender into Foreign/Second Language Education
Paul Chamness Miller, Hidehiro Endo

10. Exploring Gender Through Ash in the Secondary English Classroom
Paula Greathouse

11. Transitional Memoirs: Reading Using a Queer Cultural Capital Model
Summer Melody Pennell

12. Trans* Young Adult Literature for Secondary English Classrooms: Authors Speak Out
Judith A. Hayn, Karina R. Clemmons, Heather A. Olvey

13. Puncturing the Silence: Teaching The Laramie Project in the Secondary English Classroom
Toby Emert

14. Making Space for Unsanctioned Texts: Teachers and Students Collaborate to Trans*form Writing Assignments
Michael Wenk

15. Using Queer Pedagogy and Theory to Teach Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Kathryn Cloonan

16. The Nonconclusion: Trans*ing Education into the Future—This Cannot Wait
sj Miller

Keywords: Education, Literacy, Gender and Education