Queer Play, Failure, and Becoming: Investigating Queer Young Adults’ Memories of Play and Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Child and Youthhood

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dc.contributor.authorJack, Astri
dc.contributor.supervisorWhite, Jennifer
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-22T16:50:36Z
dc.date.copyright2022en_US
dc.date.issued2022-08-22
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Child and Youth Careen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study investigated (1) how and where queer young adults remembered playing and exploring gender and sexuality in their child and youthhoods, and (2) how those memories influenced their identities as queer young adults. Eight young adults from Southern Vancouver Island were recruited to the study using non-probability and purposive sampling. Each participant took part in a narrative interview and was asked to recreate in a sand tray one or more places where they remembered exploring gender and/or sexuality in their childhood or youthhood. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis through a queer phenomenological lens inspired by Sara Ahmed. It was determined that “queer failure,” as described by Jack Halberstam, was a critical, formative process that contributed to the reorienting of queer children and youth towards queer futures. The way that queer failure was responded to by significant adults appeared to have enduring impacts on participants’ self-esteem and self-regard, with having a supportive caregiver being associated with positive self-regard as a queer adult, and a lack of support associated with long-term poor mental health and lower likelihood of experiencing pride in being queer. Additionally, participants demonstrated how access to the outdoors provided a meaningful locus of self-discovery wherein the limitations and structures of gender were less omnipresent and they felt more external and internal acceptance of their queer identities.en_US
dc.description.embargo2023-08-10
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14117
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectchilden_US
dc.subjectyouthen_US
dc.subjectqueeren_US
dc.subjectplayen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.subjectidentity developmenten_US
dc.subjecttransgenderen_US
dc.subjecttransen_US
dc.subjectgayen_US
dc.subjectnonbinaryen_US
dc.subjectgender failureen_US
dc.subjectoutdoorsen_US
dc.subjectfamilyen_US
dc.subjectschoolsen_US
dc.titleQueer Play, Failure, and Becoming: Investigating Queer Young Adults’ Memories of Play and Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Child and Youthhooden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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