sj Miller 
Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth [PDF ebook] 
A Queer Literacy Framework

Winner of the 2018 Outstanding Book by the Michigan Council Teachers of English

Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018

Winner of the 2017 AERA Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) Exemplary Research Award

This book draws upon a queer literacy framework to map out examples for teaching literacy across pre-K-12 schooling. To date, there are no comprehensive Pre-K-12 texts for literacy teacher educators and theorists to use to show successful models of how practicing classroom teachers affirm differential (a)gender bodied realities across curriculum and schooling practices. This book aims to highlight how these enactments can be made readily conscious to teachers as a reminder that gender normativity has established violent and unstable social and educational climates for the millennial generation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, (a)gender/(a)sexual, gender creative, and questioning youth. 

Table of Content

1. Introduction: The Role of Recognition.- 2. Why a Queer Literacy Framework Matters: Models for Sustaining (A)Gender Self-Determination and Justice in Today’s Schooling Practices.- 3. Teaching Our Teachers: Trans* and Gender Education in Teacher Preparation and Professional Development.- 4. Kindergartners Studying Trans* Issues Through I Am Jazz.- 5. Beyond This or That: Challenging the Limits of Binary Language in Elementary Education Through Poetry, Word Art, and Creative Bookmarking.- 6. The Teacher as a Text: Un-centering Normative Gender Identities in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom.- 7. The T* in LGBT*: Disrupting Gender Normative School Culture Through Young Adult Literature.- 8. Risks and Resiliency: Trans* Students in the Rural South.- 9. Introducing (A)gender into Foreign/Second Language Education.- 10. Exploring Gender Through Ash in the Secondary English Classroom.- 11. Transitional Memories: Reading Using a Queer Cultural Capital Model.- 12. Trans* Young Adult Literature for Secondary English Classrooms: Authors Speak Out.- 13. Puncturing the Silence: Teaching The Laramie Project in the Secondary English Classroom.- 14. Making Space for Unsanctioned Texts: Teachers and Students Collaborate to Trans*form Writing Assignments.- 15. Using Queer Pedagogy and Theory to Teach Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.- 16. The Nonconclusion: Trans*ing Education in the Future- This Cannot Wait.-

About the author

sj Miller is a trans*+disciplinary award-winning teacher/writer/activist/scholar and an expert in secondary literacy across disciplines. sj’s research is framed around trans*+disciplinary perspectives on social justice and links across socio-spatial justice, urban education, preservice and inservice secondary language arts teacher dispositions, and marginalized/undervalued student literacies and identities, with a particular emphasis on gender identity. sj has written nine books, over twenty-five book chapters, over fifty articles, and is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, BBC Radio, CBS News, GLSEN, Vice, and PBS. In 2019, sj received the AERA Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award.