Table of Contents

List of table
Contributor Biographies
INTRODUCTION TO QUEER PRECARITIES IN AND OUT OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Yvette Taylor, Matt Brim, Churnjeet Mahn
PROLOGUE: SOUR GRAPES
Anne Balay
Part I THE WORK OF QUEER CARE AND MUTUAL AID
Chapter 1: QUEER CARE WORK AS POSSIBILITY: HOW CARE SUSTAINS QUEER SURVIVAL IN THE ACADEMY
Della J. Winters and Holly Ningard
Chapter 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 PANDEMIC
Fen Kennedy
Chapter 4: QUEER KINSHIP AS COUNTERNARRATIVE: A PARADIGM OF PERSISTENCE FOR CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION
Shereen Inayatulla and David P. Rivera

Part II FAILURE AND RESISTANCE IN DIVERSITY WORK
Chapter 5: UNAFFILIATED: THE DELEGITIMIZATION OF SCHOLARS OF COLOR OUTSIDE OF ACADEME
Monalesia Earle
Chapter 6: BEYOND BOX TICKING AND BUZZWORDS: A QUEER, WORKING-CLASS, ANTI-RACIST, ANTI-ABLEIST SHARING IN UK ACADEMIA
Leanne Dawson
Chapter 7: THE PARADOX OF BEING SEEN: STORIES FROM TWO QUEER EDUCATORS AT A NEW YORK CITY HIGH SCHOOL
Tiffany Lenoi Jones and Elana Eisen-Markowitz

Part III QUEER COMMUNITY PEDAGOGIES
Chapter 8: SHARING ACROSS GENERATIONS: THE LGBTQ+ INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE PROJECT
Adam J. Greteman, Nic M. Weststrate, and Karen Morris
Chapter 9: PERMEABLE SPACES: CREATING STRUCTURED YET FLUID CULTURAL EXPERIENCES FOR LGBTI+ ELDERS
Lou Brodie and Lewis Hetherington
Chapter 10: QUEER KINSHIP AND THE PRACTICE OF FAITH DURING COVID-19
Sadie Counts
EPILOGUE: QUEER FAILURE AND THE FIGHT FOR PUBLIC COLLEGE FOR ALL
Jennifer Gaboury
Notes
Further Reading
Index

Promotional Information

An important collection examining queer scholars challenging institutional structures, and also the queer knowledge that gets pushed out by universities.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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.
*Professor Jo Littler, City, University of London*

This book reminds me of the importance of resilience and solidarity needed in order to stand against the structurally racist academic institutions, that are still not addressing the work of young and old queer academics seriously or intersectionally.

A book like this is refreshing and affirming, allowing us to see that the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s and 70s have bloomed in our younger queer academics. I relish in all the possibilities the Presumed Incompetent project has set precedents for, for all those categorized as “The Other.”
*Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Seattle University, USA*

Queer Precarities provides a truly queer mix of theoretical analysis and practical advice/storytelling about mutual aid, about how not to come back to “normal” after the pandemic, about how seemingly small structural changes might make much-needed improvements for the academic precariat, about the ongoing marginalizations of queers of color and queers with disabilities, and many more things that definitely need to be said. Queer Precarities centers voices of those who are not embedded in academia and who “remain in pursuit of a world where we do not need refuge.” In the meantime, while queer writers and activists seek to dismantle academiconormativity and rebuild that better world, this book can serve as a refuge, a manifesto, and a guide for us all.
*Renny Christopher, Professor of English. Washington State University Vancouver, USA*