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DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Study of Social Change at the Institute for the Study of 
 Societal Issues, UC Berkeley welcomes guest speaker Cindy Cruz.LGBTQ Youth 
 Talk Back: Some Thoughts on Resistance and EthnographyCindy Cruz, Assistant 
 Professor of Education, University of California, Santa Cruz\nThis 
 ethnography begins in a large urban metropolis in the US, where I compiled 
 the stories and testimonios of 43 LGBTQ homeless youth between the ages of 
 14-21. In this research I found that LGBTQ street youth stories, despite 
 their broken and fragmented narratives, often connect their life 
 experiences directly to the health and condition of their own bodies. It is 
 this queer homeless body that is centered in a story of resistance, as 
 these bodies are highly restricted and contained by teachers, 
 doctors/paramedics, social workers and the police. Despite the containment 
 of their bodies, these LGBTQ street youth consistently create spaces that 
 move them away from the tropes of infection, contamination, and deviant 
 sexualities that are inscripted onto the bodies of queer youth. Using the 
 framework of resistance from the work of Maria Lugones (2003), this essay 
 argues that researchers must develop new abilities to see and acknowledge 
 resistance in these tight spaces. The trope of contamination and 
 irresponsibility intersect many of the experiences of LGBTQ street 
 youth--the discourse of infection, excessive sexualities, and the 
 strategies of survival sex--in ways that implicate not only LGBTQ street 
 youth, but also other marginalized bodies.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/21/18669808.php
SUMMARY:Cindy Cruz - LGBTQ Youth Talk Back: Some Thoughts on Resistance and Ethnography
LOCATION:Wildavsky Conference Room, 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley\nCenter for the 
 Study of Social Change, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC 
 Berkeley\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/21/18669808.php
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