Beschreibung:
Guided by the scholarly personal narratives of LGBTQ+ higher education scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners, this informative volume explores how individuals exist within and experience the insider/outsider paradox within higher education as they engage in disruption, queer methods, and action.
1. Introduction: Unpacking the Insider/Outsider Paradox and the Concept of Queerness as Doing. 2. "Low Key from the University:" Making Sense of Researcher Positionality and Professional Identity as Bi+ Women in Academia. 3. Who are We to Do This Research?: Duoethnographic Reflections on the Insider/Outsider Paradox in Queer Research. 4. Embodied Paradox, Queered Dialogue: Navigating Insider/Outsider Subjectivities in Higher Education Research. 5. Switching Up, Positions. 6. Will the Master's Tools Dismantle the Master's House?: Navigating Student Conduct and Conflict Work as Queer Administrators in Higher Education. 7. Tearing it Apart While Holding it Together: Using Queer, Situated Knowledges to Navigate the Paradoxes of Institutional Life. 8. Navigating Three QT Resource Centers: Identifying and Dismantling Discursive Logics of Oppression. 9. Insiders, Outsiders, and Dangerous Waters: Homonormative Whiteness in LGBTQ+ Resource Centers. 10. Creating Insiders as the Only One Out. 11. Under the Queer Umbrella: Strategies and Struggles of Intersectional Activism. 12. Queer, Trans, and Brown in Higher Education: The Outsiders Within? 13. Today's Grad Students, Tomorrow's Faculty: LGBTQIA+ Graduate Student Experiences Navigating the Insider/Outsider Paradox in Engineering. 14. Conclusion: Working the Cracks Within the System.