Queer Precarities in and out of Higher Education

Yvette Taylor is Professor of Education, University of Strathclyde, UK, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Yvette has published four sole-authored books based on funded research: Working-class Lesbian Life (2007); Lesbian and Gay Parenting (2009); Fitting Into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities (2012) and Making Space for Queer Identifying Religious Youth (2015) and co-authored Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education: Interrupting Career Categories.Matt Brim is Professor of Queer Studies at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island and Graduate Cente, USA. His book Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (2020) reorients the field of queer studies away from exclusionary institutions of higher education and toward working-class colleges, students, theories, and pedagogies. Brim is the author of James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination (2014), as well as an open access online guide for teaching the HIV/AIDS activist documentary film United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012).Churnjeet Mahn is Reader in English at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and a fellow of the Young Academy of Scotland (Royal Society of Edinburgh). She recently completed a large Arts and Humanities Research Council project entitled Creative Interruptions and she is currently running a British Academy grant entitled Cross-Border Queers: The Story of South Asian Migrants to the UK.

• List of table Contributor BiographiesINTRODUCTION TO QUEER PRECARITIES IN AND OUT OF HIGHER EDUCATION Yvette Taylor, Matt Brim, Churnjeet MahnPROLOGUE: SOUR GRAPES Anne BalayPart I THE WORK OF QUEER CARE AND MUTUAL AIDChapter 1: QUEER CARE WORK AS POSSIBILITY: HOW CARE SUSTAINS QUEER SURVIVAL IN THE ACADEMYDella J. Winters and Holly NingardChapter 2: REDISTRIBUTING RESOURCES BEYOND THE ACADEMY: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH THE DAVIDSON COMMUNITY FUND Sanzari Aranyak, Katie Horowitz, Ashley Ip, Myka Johnson, Zach Neville, Isabel Padalecki, Margo Parker, Yara Quezada Marino, Jaelyn Taylor, Rahrah Taylor, and Emily Troutman (Davidson Community Fund)Chapter 3: QUEERING COMPLEX CONVERSATIONS: SHARING ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES DURING THE PANDEMICFen KennedyChapter 4: QUEER KINSHIP AS COUNTERNARRATIVE: A PARADIGM OF PERSISTENCE FOR CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONShereen Inayatulla and David P. Rivera Part II FAILURE AND RESISTANCE IN DIVERSITY WORKChapter 5: UNAFFILIATED: THE DELEGITIMIZATION OF SCHOLARS OF COLOR OUTSIDE OF ACADEME Monalesia EarleChapter 6: BEYOND BOX TICKING AND BUZZWORDS: A QUEER, WORKING-CLASS, ANTI-RACIST, ANTI-ABLEIST SHARING IN UK ACADEMIA Leanne DawsonChapter 7: THE PARADOX OF BEING SEEN: STORIES FROM TWO QUEER EDUCATORS AT A NEW YORK CITY HIGH SCHOOL Tiffany Lenoi Jones and Elana Eisen-MarkowitzPart III QUEER COMMUNITY PEDAGOGIESChapter 8: SHARING ACROSS GENERATIONS: THE LGBTQ+ INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE PROJECT Adam J. Greteman, Nic M. Weststrate, and Karen MorrisChapter 9: PERMEABLE SPACES: CREATING STRUCTURED YET FLUID CULTURAL EXPERIENCES FOR LGBTI+ ELDERS Lou Brodie and Lewis HetheringtonChapter 10: QUEER KINSHIP AND THE PRACTICE OF FAITH DURING COVID-19 Sadie CountsEPILOGUE: QUEER FAILURE AND THE FIGHT FOR PUBLIC COLLEGE FOR ALL Jennifer GabouryNotes Further Reading Index

This exciting collection is an important addition to both the literature on queer cultures/theory and on the precarious systems of higher education. Wide-ranging in focus, and including both evocative reflections and analytical suggestions for change, it will be a valuable addition to many bookshelves.