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Author Bio

cody freeman’s mission is to create freedom through education for queer youth globally. Their work centers on leading the transformative shift of systems through actionable strategies at the intersection of academia, civil society, and the United Nations. They are the Founder & CEO of The Global Center, and a course instructor and PhD student in the Comparative and International Development Education program at the University of Minnesota. They’ve researched and written extensively on queer education topics, and have worked with international development organizations including the World Bank on how to better implement LGBTIQ-inclusive strategies in their development initiatives and Save the Children as their first SOGIESC Fellow.

Abstract

Despite growing movements, queer youth find themselves in the spotlight of intense backlash. While anti-queer activism becomes increasingly visible, queer youth activists engage in worldmaking practices through their educational activism. This narrative literature review examines how scholarly literature discusses education and research as a transformative praxis to further queer youths’ envisioned ways of being and their activism in the future. Employing the concept of queer futurity, this article highlights how queer youth move through time and space, co-create knowledge through participatory research, and engage in activism within and beyond school settings. It also underscores the need for critically reflexive, relational research methodologies that center queer youths’ lived experiences. This article concludes with an invitation to reconceptualize pedagogical, methodological, and theoretical approaches that might foster movements and facilitate what is possible.

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