@article{ref1,
title="The school-to-coffin pipeline: queer youth, suicide, and living the in-between",
journal="Cultural studies <=> critical methodologies",
year="2017",
author="Wozolek, Boni and Wootton, Lindsey and Demlow, Aaron",
volume="17",
number="5",
pages="392-398",
abstract="Written from the perspectives of a tenured high school teacher/researcher, an out bisexual sophomore, and a transgender senior, this article discusses the challenges of being and becoming an out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ) student in a large, Midwestern high school. Through counternarratives, the authors explore what they call the school-to-coffin pipeline, a system that (un)intentionally positions LGBTQ teens in what has become a horrific, yet normalized, epidemic of queer youth suicide. The authors use the framework of this pipeline to examine what it means to live with/in the in-between of school rhetoric and a dearth of enacted school policy that could literally be life-saving for queer youth. Through an examination of the everyday challenges queer youth encounter, the authors argue that all adults involved in schooling--including teachers, teacher educators, administrators, counselors, and school psychologist--are necessarily (un)knowing participants in the school-to-coffin pipeline, contributing to institutional homophobia and, by extension, LGBTQ youth suicide. The authors argue that by attending to the school-to-coffin pipeline, those who contribute to it can begin to interrupt the current, and possibly continuing, cycle of self-inflicted violence on queer youth bodies.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1532-7086",
doi="10.1177/1532708616673659",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708616673659"
}