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Producing Queer Youth

Berliner challenges existing truisms about digital media and youth empowerment with a thoughtful examination of anti-bullying rhetoric, the logic of public service announcements and public health messaging more generally, and the discourses of neoliberal resilience that undercut possibilities for solidarity and subversion in social movements. Rather than approach youth media without examining the biases of ageism and classicism, Berliner encourages readersfrom her position as an experienced educatorto consider the media practices of queer youth on their own terms.Elizabeth Losh, William and Mary, USA

Producing Queer Youth challenges popular ideas about online media culture as a platform for empowerment, cultural transformation, and social progress. Based on over three years of participatory action research with queer teen media-makers and textual analysis of hundreds of youth-produced videos and popular media campaigns, the book unsettles assumptions that having a voice and gaining visibility and recognition necessarily equate to securing rights and resources. Instead, Berliner offers a nuanced picture of openings that emerge for youth media producers as they negotiate the structures of funding and publicity and manage their identities with digital self-representations. Examining youth media practices within broader communication history and critical media pedagogy, she forwards an approach to media production that re-centers the process of making as the site of potential learning and social connection. Ultimately, she reframes digital media participation as a struggle forrather than, in itself, evidence ofpower.

Lauren S. Berliner is Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell, USA.

Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media

Edited by Mary Celeste Kearney, University of Notre Dame

The Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media series aims to publish original research in the areas of feminist and queer media studies, with a particular but not exclusive focus on gender and sexuality. In doing so, this series brings to the market cutting-edge critical work that refreshes, reshapes, and redirects scholarship in these related fields while contributing to a better global understanding of how gender and sexual politics operate within historical and current mediascapes.

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Producing Queer Youth

The Paradox of Digital Media Empowerment

Lauren S. Berliner

Producing Queer Youth

The Paradox of Digital Media Empowerment

Lauren S. Berliner

First published 2018

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ISBN: 978-0-415-79084-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-21281-4 (ebk)

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In Memory of

Miriam Berliner

and

Gloria Israel

Contents

One night in the summer of 1997 I slipped out of my parents house and stole away to an unmarked storefront in the middle of a strip mall in White Plains, New York, with my childhood friend Ilan Weissman in the passenger seat. Ilan was taking me to my first meeting at The Loft, a group for queer and questioning teens. There I would meet Tey Meadow, who would become a lifelong friend and colleague, and an eclectic cadre of teens crammed into a room the size of a storage closet. We had very little in common other than zip codes and the rainbow ribbons we strategically concealed from most people but had, on rare occasions, displayed on our backpacks and water bottles, like passports to a queer nation. We were too young for the bars, and just starting to date. This was our only space to connect with others.

These days, queer teens can find one another other in less than a minute and with very little fanfare, assuming they have a reliable internet connection and a device. Clearly the options for locating other queer teens look different than they did before Web 2.0. But the purposeconnectingremains the same. This book takes up the challenges and opportunities that digital media offer queer youth, with the intent of helping to identify where and how meaning can be made. There are countless people who made that possible for me, and I am sincerely grateful.

The creativity and spirit of the youth at the Hillcrest Youth Center, the volunteers, and Sophia Arredondo, the HYCs former program coordinator, formed the heart of this book. I honor their trust in me and am grateful to have had the opportunity to share so much time together. The text cannot possibly capture the enormous place they hold in my heart. My sincere thanks to Diana Fisher and the Collective Voices Foundation for funding and supporting the media workshop, and for the many friends who provided us with cameras, books, guest workshops, and their acting talents.

I am especially indebted to Christian Anderson, Toby Beauchamp, Jaimie Baron, Dan Berger, Debra Berliner, Arianna Ochoa Camacho, micha crdenas, Erin Cory, Johanna Crane, Ben Gardner, Jennifer Hsu, Nora Kenworthy, Ron Krabill, Kate Levitt, Stephanie Ann Martin, Carl McKinney, Reece Peck, Pooja Rangan, Josh Rosenau, Pawan Singh, Emily Thuma, and Kara Wentworth, for not only nourishing the project on multiple levels, but also providing the comfort, guidance, and strength that made it feel possible to write a book.

Other colleagues and friends who have read sections, thought about the project, and offered input and inspiration for the manuscript at various stages include: Amaranth Borsuk, Marisa Brandt, Nancy Chang, S. Charusheela, Jonathan Cohn, Shannon Cram, Negin Dahya, Sarah Dowling, Jody Early, Emily Fuller, Kristin Gustafson, Susan Harewood, Kate Hoffman, Nia Lam, Maggie Levantovskya, Lauren Lichty, Kelli Moore, Katrina Pederson, Susan Pearlman, Kyla Schuller, Sid Jordan, Monika Sengul-Jones, Jed Murr, Andy Rice, Eric Stewart, Wadiya Udell, Amoshaun Toft, Kalindi Vora, Michaela Walsh, Isra Ali, Allyson Field, Alka Kurian, Dolissa Medina, Janelle Silva, Jade Power-Sotomayor, Thea Quiray Tagle, Crispin Thurlow, Miriam Bartha, Julie Shayne, and Camille Walsh.

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