Editors
Kamden K. Strunk, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Antonio Duran, Ph.D., Arizona State University, USA
Stephanie Anne Shelton, Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
JQTSIE is a fee-free Open Access peer-reviewed journal that publishes empirical, conceptual, and theoretical work in the areas of queer and trans studies in education. It is published by VCU Libraries, with support from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education. The journal’s aims and scopes include intentional centering of intersectional and global scholarship, alongside considerations of queer and trans futures and futurity—within and beyond current violent policy landscapes.
See the Aims and Scope for more information about the journal.
Special Issue Calls
Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education
In addition to special issues, the Journal reviews submissions on an ongoing basis for our regular issues.
Current Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1 (2026) Queering Rural Education
Editors' Introduction
Introduction: Queering Rural Education
Leia K. Cain, Ty McNamee, and Darris Means
Research Articles
A trans youth’s encounters with queerness in Puerto Rico
Gabriel T. Acevedo
Rotating along the Borderlands: Contextualizing Border Rurality Among Queer Transfronterizxs College Students
Carlos A. Fitch
“I’ve Already Invested So Much Time, Effort, and Money Into This, So I Stay for Me”: A Case Study of Paulina A First-Generation Trans Latina Rural Community College Student
Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez
Queer of Color Critique and the Politics of Epistemic Agency: Rural Educators Desettling Curricular Expectations
C.A. Langerud, Madelaine Adelman, and Daniel D. Liou
Rural Geographies, Queer Youth and Metronormativity
Fenton Litwiller
Beyond the City Limits: Representations of Rurality and LGBTQIA+ Youth in Young Adult Literature
Michelle L. Page
Queer Kids in the Country: Challenges, Resources, and Queer Cultural Capital of Rural LGBTQIA+ Youth
Michelle L. Page
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Personifying the South in Rural Queer Collegians’ Stories
Miranda N. Rutan and Leia K. Cain
Reading about Gender Identity in a Rural Community: Discourse around Young Adult Literature and Social Justice
Ashley S. Boyd and Rachael R. Wolney
Sissies at the Cafeteria Table: Toward a Queer Black-town Sense of Place, Education and Life
Ezekiel Joubert III
"What are they going to do? Fire me?" The Paradoxical Empowerment of Nonbinary Teachers in Rural South Carolina
Chris Cyan Divens and Jonathan M. Coker
Power, Privilege, and Perceptions: A Critical Case Study of FFA and GSA Members’ High School Experiences in a Southern Rural High School
Eric Moser, Stacy Vincent, and Rebekah Epps
