Creative Research on Gender and Sexuality with Children and Young People

EJ Renold is Professor of Childhood Studies at the School of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.Tuija Huuki is Professor of Youth Research at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Oulu, FinlandSuvi Pihkala is researcher and University lecturer in Gender Studies at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Oulu, Finland.Carol A. Taylor is Professor of Higher Education and Gender in the Department of Education, University of Bath, UK.

"In a moment of regressive gender and sexual politics, this book is an invitation to hope. It innovatively constitutes the first collection of creative methods on gender and sexuality in childhood and youth studies. Through creative methodologies embracing the human-non-human, the scholarship in this collection art-fully makes space for worlds otherwise."Professor Louisa Allen, Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Auckland"Taking seriously ways to ‘make gender and sexuality matter’ is at the very heart of this book. This vital contribution fills a void for feminist researchers seeking to bring theory and creative practice together. The authors offer a hopeful praxis, making felt the tangible differences that can come about through research-creation with young people as they navigate the complexities of gender and sexualities in times of poly crises. It will become the ‘go-to’ book for researchers committed to - deeply political and ethical - ways to engage in world-making practices that matter."Professor Jayne Osgood, Centre for Education Research & Scholarship, Middlesex University, UK"In this urgently relevant text, the politics and potential of creative research methodologies expand how research on gender and sexuality might be creatively imagined. Drawing on co-constructed, co-creative and participatory methods with children and young people this transdisciplinary volume approaches research with nuance and complexity, contributing unique research methodologies to its many relevant fields."Dr Asilia Franklin-Phipps, Professor of Educational Studies with an affiliate appointment in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor at SUNY New Paltz, Department of Teaching and Learning

• List of ContributorsHow creative methods matter in gender and sexuality research with children and young peopleEJ Renold, Tuija Huuki, Suvi Pihkala and Carol TaylorPart I: Making-Trouble : creatively attuning to the difficulty, dangers and diversity of how gender and sexuality come to matterSuvi PihkalaCollaging LGBTQ+ lives across religious and cultural differenceAnna Hickey-Moody, Alexandra Ciaffaglione, James Gardiner, Margaret Lovell, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, Joel Windle and Katherine Johnson Using mapping and slam books to excavate queer articulations amongst young peopleSandra J. Schmidt Working within the methodological affordances of gaming playscapes for researching gender and sexuality in children’s worldsMark Vicars, Amanda Muscat and Janine ArantesPoster-making as potential: girls and the sexual violence assemblage in a rural community in South AfricaRaksha Janak and Deevia Bhana Feminist and decolonial methodological reflections on vulnerability within arts-based research with young women in Chile and NigeriaAyomide Oluseye and Elise Denis-Ramirez The trans art of failure: stuttering with secondary students’ spacetimegenderingsAmpersand Pasley Part II: Making-with: co-creating how gender and sexuality matters with children and young people in schools, community groups and museumsCarol A TaylorGlitching gendered childhoods through digital-embodied animationsSuvi Pihkala and Tuija HuukiExploring gender and sexuality in botany collections and beyondKate MarstonRainbow playgrounds: using the visual arts to attune to the experiences of LGBTQ+ neurodiverse young peopleGabrielle IvinsonAnimating genders, sexualities and schooling through making (with) dartaSusanne Gannon and Prue AdamsParticipatory production in research with young migrants: intimacy, care and social affordancesChris High, Åsa Trulsson and Anna BaralPart III: Making-praxis: transforming how gender and sexuality research matters in public, practice and policyTuija Huuki Clothes racks and Giant story tables: making the materiality of methods matter for gender expansive practiceLizzie MaughanRuler-skirts, Rights-kites and Rainbow Ribbons: making gender equality matter with pre-teens in arts-activist research and practice EJ RenoldPhEminist skins and decolonial becomings: towards a care-ful, creative methodology of hopeClare StanhopeMapping praxis within the Zine-ic: navigating co-creation of sexuality education materials with young people in ArubaElizabeth AscroftPart IV: Making the more-than: becoming artful with what else gender and sexuality research can becomeEJ RenoldStraight, white, male: un/knotting and un/labelling masculinity with arts-based methodsHuw Berry-DownsNeuroqueering as a proposition for sound methods: contextualising a music composition research-creation study in a neurodiverse early childhood education classroomDavid Ben ShannonWalking the gendered and racialised experiences of living in overcrowded householdsShiva ZarabadiColourism and Indian girlhoods: prisms, portraiture and the diffractive potential of arts-based researchSweta Rajan-RankinIndigenous Sámi kelohonka mythodologies of becoming arctic girl-selfTuija HuukiCamille 1^5: Sexuality Education at the End of The WorldVanessa Cameron-LewisIndex