Sexualities and Genders in Education: Towards Queer Thriving: Queer Studies and Education

Adam J. Greteman is Assistant Professor of Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.

This book explores queerness in the context of changing economic, intellectual, sexual, and school terrains. Greteman proposes the concept queer thriving to imagine how queers might develop in-contestation to becoming normalized. This work and the work of queer thriving challenge various norms that have evolved over the course of queer theory’s history. To read queer thriving into the world takes the reader into investigations of the child, the seminar classroom, queer cultures, the history of AIDS, and emerging discourses on barebacking and PrEP. Queer thriving guides queers into a 21st century that does justice to diverse queer existences, past and present.

Fills a gap with its focus on LGBTQ students in preK-12 schools and universities Investigates ways queers can historically and contemporarily be seen to be thriving Illustrates how queer thriving is tied up with the struggles for surviving