TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - The school-to-coffin pipeline: queer youth, suicide, and living the in-between
JO  - Cultural studies <=> critical methodologies
A1  - Wozolek, Boni
A1  - Wootton, Lindsey
A1  - Demlow, Aaron
SP  - 392
EP  - 398
VL  - 17
IS  - 5
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1532-7086
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708616673659
ID  - ref1
ER  -