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Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age

Kay Siebler

Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age

Kay Siebler Missouri Western State Univerity St Joseph, Missouri, USA

ISBN 978-1-137-60322-7 ISBN 978-1-137-59950-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59950-6

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Dedicated to M and Z for filling my sabbatical with ukuleles and song, punny laughter, and love.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank all the reviewers who spent thoughtful time giving important and poignant feedback on early drafts of this text. Without their sage advice, I would not have been able to finish this project. I am also extremely grateful to Shaun Vigil at Palgrave Macmillan for seeing the worth of my work and dancing it through the last part of this journey to turn five years of research and writing and revising into a book. Susanne Gubanc provided enthusiastic support and feminist sisterhood. Without her, I am sure I would have given up entirely. Across disciplines and institutions, I would like to thank all the queer and feminist teachers who have taken the risk of talking about the issues of LGBT identity and media manipulation in their classrooms. What you do is important and vital work. Thanks for pushing your students to think critically and carefully. Your teaching creates better citizens and smarter consumers. Thanks also to colleagues past and present who have taught me how to be a better educator and scholar: Trish Donaher, Mike Cadden, Dawn Terrick, Susan Martens, Barbara Dibernard, Kate Ronald, Joy Ritchie, Shawna Harris, Kathy Kapitan, Annamaria Formichella-Elsden, Mike Whitlatch, Peter Steinfeld, Bridget Christensen,