Casey Burkholder (she/her) is a bi femme Tier II Canada Research Chair in Social Justice in Youth and Child Studies and an associate professor at Concordia University. In choosing a research path at the intersection of resistance and activism, gender, sexuality, DIY media-making, art production, queer joy, and participatory archiving, Casey engages in research for social change through participatory visual approaches to local issues with 2SLGBTQ+ youth, adults, elders and teachers. She is the co-founder of the Fredericton Feminist Film Collective, and is the PI of Pride/Swell+ and SexualityNB.Melissa Keehn (she/her) is a femme lesbian and assistant professor at the University of New Brunswick. Before changing careers, she was an art and social studies teacher at a rural high school in New Brunswick. Her current research focuses on the relationships between gender, sexuality, and social change, particularly as they unfold within school contexts. A key strand of her work engages with sex education, exploring how curriculum, pedagogy, and teacher practice can either reinforce or disrupt dominant norms around sex, gender, and sexuality.Megan Hill (she/they) is a PhD candidate of education at Concordia University. Her doctoral research is about intergenerational knowledge exchange between elders and children within the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. She recently completed her master’s at Trent University, where she wrote an SSHRC-supported thesis titled Queer Crip Generativity. Megan is an active member of the JOY Lab and a research assistant on Pride/Swell+. In her spare time, Megan sometimes works at a queer youth summer camp developing accessible and joyful programming.

• Introduction: What does Failure offer to Queer Joy Studies? (Casey Burkholder, Melissa Keehn, and Megan Hill) Chapter 1: Centering Failure in Participatory Visual Research Facilitation: Exploring Romances, Ruptures, and other Ethical Messes (Casey Burkholder, Melissa Keehn, and Megan Hill) Chapter 2: Everything is not Fine: Policy and Pedagogy Failures in Sexuality Education (Melissa Keehn, Casey Burkholder, and Megan Hill) Chapter 3: Engaging Collage and Queer Archives to Reflect White Queer and Femme Complicity (Casey Burkholder, Melissa Keehn, and Megan Hill) Chapter 4: Unpacking the Islamophobic & Queerphobic Logics of the Sexuality Education Classroom (Hafsah Mohammad, Casey Burkholder, and Melissa Keehn) Chapter 5: There’s a lot of DIY Joy”: Elevating Queer Joy through Participatory Visual Research with 2SLGBTQIA+ Folks in Atlantic Canada (Casey Burkholder, Melissa Keehn, Katie MacEntee, Megan Hill, Arlo Beaumont, and Symone Hunt) Chapter 6: Sanctuary: How we Live: Centering Failure in Queer Art Exhibitions and Failure in Gender and Sexuality Research and Practice (Casey Burkholder, Megan Hill, Melissa Keehn, and Katie MacEntee) Chapter 7: “What is Aids? Jesus Christ?!”: Failures and Repair in Sexuality Teacher Education (Melissa Keehn, Casey Burkholder, and Megan Hill) Chapter 8: Conclusion: Learning from queer joy as failure: Rejecting settler moves to innocence and homonationalism inside and outside of schools (Melissa Keehn, Casey Burkholder, and Megan Hill)

Casey Burkholder (she/her) is a bi femme Tier II Canada Research Chair in Social Justice in Youth and Child Studies and an associate professor at Concordia University. In choosing a research path at the intersection of resistance and activism, gender, sexuality, DIY media-making, art production, queer joy, and participatory archiving, Casey engages in research for social change through participatory visual approaches to local issues with 2SLGBTQ+ youth, adults, elders and teachers. She is the co-founder of the Fredericton Feminist Film Collective, and is the PI of Pride/Swell+ and SexualityNB.Melissa Keehn (she/her) is a femme lesbian and assistant professor at the University of New Brunswick. Before changing careers, she was an art and social studies teacher at a rural high school in New Brunswick. Her current research focuses on the relationships between gender, sexuality, and social change, particularly as they unfold within school contexts. A key strand of her work engages with sex education, exploring how curriculum, pedagogy, and teacher practice can either reinforce or disrupt dominant norms around sex, gender, and sexuality.Megan Hill (she/they) is a PhD candidate of education at Concordia University. Her doctoral research is about intergenerational knowledge exchange between elders and children within the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. She recently completed her master’s at Trent University, where she wrote an SSHRC-supported thesis titled Queer Crip Generativity. Megan is an active member of the JOY Lab and a research assistant on Pride/Swell+. In her spare time, Megan sometimes works at a queer youth summer camp developing accessible and joyful programming.

• Introduction: What does Failure offer to Queer Joy Studies? (Casey Burkholder, Melissa Keehn, and Megan Hill) Chapter 1: Centering Failure in Participatory Visual Research Facilitation: Exploring Romances, Ruptures, and other Ethical Messes (Casey Burkholder, Melissa Keehn, and Megan Hill) Chapter 2: Everything is not Fine: Policy and Pedagogy Failures in Sexuality Education (Melissa Keehn, Casey Burkholder, and Megan Hill) Chapter 3: Engaging Collage and Queer Archives to Reflect White Queer and Femme Complicity (Casey Burkholder, Melissa Keehn, and Megan Hill) Chapter 4: Unpacking the Islamophobic & Queerphobic Logics of the Sexuality Education Classroom (Hafsah Mohammad, Casey Burkholder, and Melissa Keehn) Chapter 5: There’s a lot of DIY Joy”: Elevating Queer Joy through Participatory Visual Research with 2SLGBTQIA+ Folks in Atlantic Canada (Casey Burkholder, Melissa Keehn, Katie MacEntee, Megan Hill, Arlo Beaumont, and Symone Hunt) Chapter 6: Sanctuary: How we Live: Centering Failure in Queer Art Exhibitions and Failure in Gender and Sexuality Research and Practice (Casey Burkholder, Megan Hill, Melissa Keehn, and Katie MacEntee) Chapter 7: “What is Aids? Jesus Christ?!”: Failures and Repair in Sexuality Teacher Education (Melissa Keehn, Casey Burkholder, and Megan Hill) Chapter 8: Conclusion: Learning from queer joy as failure: Rejecting settler moves to innocence and homonationalism inside and outside of schools (Melissa Keehn, Casey Burkholder, and Megan Hill)

Casey Burkholder (she/her) is a bi femme Tier II Canada Research Chair in Social Justice in Youth and Child Studies and an associate professor at Concordia University. In choosing a research path at the intersection of resistance and activism, gender, sexuality, DIY media-making, art production, queer joy, and participatory archiving, Casey engages in research for social change through participatory visual approaches to local issues with 2SLGBTQ+ youth, adults, elders and teachers. She is the co-founder of the Fredericton Feminist Film Collective, and is the PI of Pride/Swell+ and SexualityNB.Melissa Keehn (she/her) is a femme lesbian and assistant professor at the University of New Brunswick. Before changing careers, she was an art and social studies teacher at a rural high school in New Brunswick. Her current research focuses on the relationships between gender, sexuality, and social change, particularly as they unfold within school contexts. A key strand of her work engages with sex education, exploring how curriculum, pedagogy, and teacher practice can either reinforce or disrupt dominant norms around sex, gender, and sexuality.Megan Hill (she/they) is a PhD candidate of education at Concordia University. Her doctoral research is about intergenerational knowledge exchange between elders and children within the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. She recently completed her master’s at Trent University, where she wrote an SSHRC-supported thesis titled Queer Crip Generativity. Megan is an active member of the JOY Lab and a research assistant on Pride/Swell+. In her spare time, Megan sometimes works at a queer youth summer camp developing accessible and joyful programming.

• Introduction: What does Failure offer to Queer Joy Studies? (Casey Burkholder, Melissa Keehn, and Megan Hill) Chapter 1: Centering Failure in Participatory Visual Research Facilitation: Exploring Romances, Ruptures, and other Ethical Messes (Casey Burkholder, Melissa Keehn, and Megan Hill) Chapter 2: Everything is not Fine: Policy and Pedagogy Failures in Sexuality Education (Melissa Keehn, Casey Burkholder, and Megan Hill) Chapter 3: Engaging Collage and Queer Archives to Reflect White Queer and Femme Complicity (Casey Burkholder, Melissa Keehn, and Megan Hill) Chapter 4: Unpacking the Islamophobic & Queerphobic Logics of the Sexuality Education Classroom (Hafsah Mohammad, Casey Burkholder, and Melissa Keehn) Chapter 5: There’s a lot of DIY Joy”: Elevating Queer Joy through Participatory Visual Research with 2SLGBTQIA+ Folks in Atlantic Canada (Casey Burkholder, Melissa Keehn, Katie MacEntee, Megan Hill, Arlo Beaumont, and Symone Hunt) Chapter 6: Sanctuary: How we Live: Centering Failure in Queer Art Exhibitions and Failure in Gender and Sexuality Research and Practice (Casey Burkholder, Megan Hill, Melissa Keehn, and Katie MacEntee) Chapter 7: “What is Aids? Jesus Christ?!”: Failures and Repair in Sexuality Teacher Education (Melissa Keehn, Casey Burkholder, and Megan Hill) Chapter 8: Conclusion: Learning from queer joy as failure: Rejecting settler moves to innocence and homonationalism inside and outside of schools (Melissa Keehn, Casey Burkholder, and Megan Hill)