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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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"It's like the only safe place on earth for kids like me!": Youth Queer World Making at Camp Half-Blood

Stueve, Madison Nicole 05 1900 (has links)
Queer youth enactments of agency, resistance, and worldmaking have been under researched in rhetorical studies. Investigating how queer world making for youth takes place at a space entitled Camp Half-Blood, a live action role playing (LARP) fantasy camp for ages 8-18, this study contends that queer youth at Camp Half-Blood utilize Burke's equipment for living, disidentifications, queer relationality, and queer hope as embodiments that create queer lifeworlds and mobilize queer campers toward queer livable futures. By interviewing campers on their perspectives of being queer at camp and the impact LARPing had on the creation of queer youth identity, as well as the ways LARPing and camp affected queer youth camper envisioning of the future, this research maintains that queer youth have the potential to utilize LARPing in radical ways to revise (cis)heteronormative and hegemonic understandings of their social standings in the world. Camp Half-Blood also offers an opportunity to bring research on queer youth in fandoms from online spaces to offline spaces and extends research on youth agency and youth queer world making.

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