| List of Figures and Tables |
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| Introduction |
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Don't Ever Wipe Tears and Shemetov's photograph |
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Queer media cultures and youth |
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4 | (2) |
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Coming out, education, bullying and homophobia |
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6 | (1) |
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Queer youth and identification |
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7 | (3) |
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10 | (2) |
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12 | (7) |
| Part I Performance and Culture |
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1 Stories like Mine: Coming Out Videos and Queer Identities on YouTube |
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19 | (15) |
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Visibility and acculturation |
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23 | (7) |
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30 | (4) |
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2 Transgender Youth and YouTube Videos: Self-Representation and Five Identifiable Trans Youth Narratives |
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34 | (12) |
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34 | (1) |
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Self-representation in trans youth: A theoretical framework |
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34 | (4) |
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Adaptable methods in the study of trans youth and YouTube videos |
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38 | (2) |
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Five identifiable trans youth narratives |
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40 | (3) |
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43 | (3) |
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3 'A Safe and Supportive Environment': LGBTQ Youth and Social Media |
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46 | (17) |
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49 | (1) |
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It Gets Better Project: 'Give hope to LGBT youth' |
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50 | (5) |
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The Trevor Project: 'Saving young lives' |
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55 | (8) |
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4 Media Responses to Queer Youth Suicide: Trauma, Therapeutic Discourse and Co-Presence |
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63 | (23) |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (1) |
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The commodity of the It Gets Better Project |
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65 | (2) |
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Counter public, confession and therapeutic discourse |
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67 | (2) |
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Shame, remembering and pedagogic work |
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69 | (1) |
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Intimate and painful contributions: Justin Aaberg's and Asher Brown's parents |
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70 | (3) |
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The It Gets Better Project, consensual validation and the sociality of pain |
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73 | (7) |
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80 | (6) |
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5 Sexually Marginalized Youth in the South: Narration Strategies and Discourse Coalitions in Newspaper Coverage of a Southern High School Gay-Straight Alliance Club Controversy |
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86 | (12) |
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87 | (1) |
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GSA controversy in Currituck County, North Carolina |
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88 | (1) |
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Discourse coalitions and people production in Currituck County |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (2) |
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GSAs as sexual recruitment clubs |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (1) |
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95 | (3) |
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6 'We've Got Big News': Creating Media to Empower Queer Youth in Schools |
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98 | (17) |
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Signifying regimes and Debord's 'spectacle' |
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100 | (2) |
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102 | (3) |
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105 | (3) |
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108 | (2) |
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110 | (5) |
| Part II Histories and Commodity |
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7 Talking Liberties: Framed Youth, Community Video and Channel 4's Remit in Action |
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115 | (16) |
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Introduction: A licence to be queer? |
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115 | (1) |
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Prefigurative? The origins of Framed Youth |
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116 | (2) |
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The documentary aesthetics of Framed Youth |
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118 | (3) |
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Framed? Distribution, education and Section 28 |
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121 | (3) |
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Documenting struggle/documentary (as) struggle |
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124 | (2) |
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Overcoming political fragmentation |
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126 | (1) |
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Conclusion: Re-Framed Youth |
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127 | (4) |
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8 We Need to Talk about Jack! On the Representation of Male Homosexuality in American Teen Soaps |
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131 | (14) |
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131 | (3) |
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The teen soap: Constructing identity |
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134 | (2) |
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Before Jack: Homosexuality and 'otherness' |
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136 | (2) |
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But what about Jack? Moving homosexuality into the 'mainstream' |
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138 | (3) |
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After Jack: The normality of 'otherness' |
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141 | (1) |
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Conclusion: The 'gay kid' as part of the mainstream? |
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142 | (3) |
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9 Queering TV Conventions: LGBT Teen Narratives on Glee |
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145 | (13) |
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145 | (2) |
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From multiplicity to microcosm |
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147 | (3) |
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150 | (4) |
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154 | (4) |
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10 Boy Wizards: Magical and Homosocial Power in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and The Covenant |
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158 | (12) |
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Homosociality in the teen film genre |
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158 | (3) |
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Masculinity in homosocial space |
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161 | (2) |
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Textual codes and queer reading |
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163 | (1) |
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164 | (6) |
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11 Androgynous Social Media and Visual Culture |
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170 | (12) |
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1950's periodicals and fashion |
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172 | (2) |
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Contemporary androgynous Tumblr |
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174 | (3) |
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The importance of non-binary style |
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177 | (5) |
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12 Queer Youth Cyber-Bullying and Policing the Self-Brand |
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182 | (15) |
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Technologies and Cyberbullying |
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183 | (1) |
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Parker's article and self branding |
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184 | (3) |
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Dharun Ravi and Tyler Clementi |
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187 | (6) |
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193 | (4) |
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13 Looking at Complicated Desires: Gay Male Youth and Cinematic Representations of Age-Different Relationships |
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197 | (14) |
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Important predecessors and their insights into the phenomenon of looking |
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198 | (3) |
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Looking at the complicated desires of cinematic gay boys, soldiers and teachers |
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201 | (5) |
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Concluding observations: Absent yet present |
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206 | (5) |
| Part III Transnational Intersections |
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14 Straight Eye for the Queer Guy: Gay Youth in Contemporary Scandinavian Film |
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211 | (13) |
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211 | (1) |
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A divisive love story: The Scandinavian youth film |
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212 | (2) |
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Tone and the teen on the screen |
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214 | (2) |
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Straight out of youth: The Man Who Loved Yngve |
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216 | (2) |
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Gays and dolls: Love Is in the Air |
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218 | (3) |
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221 | (3) |
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15 'Born This Way': Media and Youth Identities in Uganda's Kuchu Community |
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224 | (15) |
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224 | (3) |
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Film Fridays and Community Sundays: Media Usage in Kuchu Organisations |
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227 | (3) |
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Survival techniques: Education, visibility and awareness |
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230 | (3) |
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Born this way: Identity, identification and resistance |
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233 | (3) |
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236 | (3) |
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16 'Be Wary of Working Boys': The Cultural Production of Queer Youth in Today's West Africa |
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239 | (12) |
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Translating local queer youth: Same-sex prostitution and Senegalese TV |
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240 | (4) |
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Sidestepping the spectre of paedophilia: Qualifying the youth category |
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244 | (2) |
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Queer youth in New African media: Ghallywood, Nollywood and Gay Ghana Online |
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246 | (5) |
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17 LGBT Student Groups at Universities and Their Usage of Social Media as a Public Sphere: A Case Analysis - luBUnya |
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251 | (14) |
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Universities and the LGBT movement |
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252 | (2) |
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Social media usage of LGBT student groups: An overview |
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254 | (1) |
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255 | (2) |
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257 | (1) |
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257 | (3) |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (1) |
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262 | (3) |
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18 Parties, Advocacy and Activism: Interrogating Community and Class in Digital Queer India |
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265 | (13) |
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Whose community is it anyway? |
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266 | (1) |
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267 | (3) |
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Class identification and the fractured community |
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270 | (1) |
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271 | (2) |
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273 | (5) |
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19 The It Gets Better Project: A Study in (and of) Whiteness - in LGBT Youth and Media Cultures |
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278 | (14) |
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Racialized sexuality and queer youth of colour |
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284 | (2) |
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What does 'better' look like? |
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286 | (2) |
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288 | (4) |
| Index |
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