Queer Kids and Social Violence

The Limits of Bullying

Elizabethe Payne, Melissa J. Smith

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University of Minnesota Press
28 October 2025

Violence in society; Philosophy & theory of education; Educational strategies & policy

Challenging the myths about LGBTQ+ kids and bullying: what it means to protect queer kids in schools

Conversations around LGBTQ+ kids in school have become dominated by the subject of bullying. Although this may be due to good-faith efforts to protect vulnerable students, Queer Kids and Social Violence demonstrates that a focus on bullying as acts of individual peer aggression fails to address the social norms that perpetuate the violence. Considering the broader contexts of bullying, this volume offers ways to engage with queer youth that are both more humanizing and more likely to create sustainable change.

Essays by leading international scholars analyze how bullying discourse shapes policy and practice, using in-depth case studies, research findings, and examinations of political policy to guide readers through the various forms of violence, identity regulation, and identity erasure in schools. Offering conversation-shifting interventions to respond to a difficult and frightening political moment for LGBTQ+ youth, Queer Kids and Social Violence is a rounded, empathetic picture that does queer youth justice and points the way toward safer schools for all.

Contributors: Ana Mara Amigo-Ventureira, Durell M. Callier, Cristyn Davies, Renee DePalma, Tania Ferfolja, Jessica Fields, Elliot Fonarev, Jen Gilbert, Tristan Gleason, Dominique C. Hill, Angela Ingram, Laurie Gutmann Kahn, Cris Mayo, Mollie McQuillan, Aoife Neary, C.J. Pascoe, Victoria Rawlings, EJ Renold, Jessica Ringrose, Kerry H. Robinson, Dorte Marie Sndergaard, Cris Townley, Jacqueline Ullman, Boni Wozolek.

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Edited by: Elizabethe Payne, Melissa J. Smith
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 737g
ISBN: 9781517917166
ISBN 10: 1517917166
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 28 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabethe Payne is founder and director of QuERI, the Queering Education Research Institute. Her work has been published widely, including in Teachers College Record; QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking; and Educational Administration Quarterly. Melissa J. Smith is associate professor of education at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is associate director of the Queering Education Research Institute and has published research in many journals, including Equity and Excellence in Education, Educational Administration Quarterly, and Teachers College Record.