"Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid": Being Bisexual, Genderfluid, and Fifteen. (September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Carless, David; Douglas, Kitrina; Milnes, Kate; Turner-Moore, Tamara
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 26:Number 7(2020)
• Page Start: 840
• Page End: 848
• Publication Date: 2020-09
• Subjects: bullying -- collaborative research -- genderfluidity -- LGBT experience -- performance text -- physical education; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800419846525
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid is a performance text created from collaborative narrative interviews between the first author and a 15-year-old participant named Max who identifies as bisexual and genderfluid. The performance explores how Max negotiates a range of challenges—including homophobia, transphobia, bullying, and harassment—on a day-to-day basis. It offers evocative insights into life as a young person with an intersecting identity across school, community, online, and family contexts. By choosing to represent Max's experiences as a performance text, we offer a living, breathing resource that can be performed in educational settings not only to young people but also by young people. We share Everybody Knows Me as the Weird Kid as a resource to help others respond to sexual and gender-related bullying and discrimination in their own lives.