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DESCRIPTION:LGBTQ Youth Talk Back: Some Thoughts on Resistance and Ethnography\nCindy 
 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. \nCindy Cruz's talk is hosted by 
 the Center for the Study of Social Change at the Institute for the Study of 
 Societal Issues, UC Berkeley.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/31/18670816.php
SUMMARY:Cindy Cruz - LGBTQ Youth Talk Back: Some Thoughts on Resistance and Ethnography
LOCATION:Wildavsky Conference Room, 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley Center for the Study 
 of Social Change, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/31/18670816.php
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