Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1302-8614
Abstract
In this editorial introduction, we situate this dual-journal special issue within the current legislative landscape targeting queer and trans people across North America in rural communities. We describe our collaboration with the editorial teams of the Journal of Research in Rural Education and the Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education to illuminate the experiences and perspectives of queer youth and adults in and from rural spaces. We then introduce the articles published in JQTSiE, which are organized into four interrelated themes: (1) Embodied Pedagogies and Spatial Navigation, (2) Institutional Structures and Resistance, (3) Community, Literacy, and Representation, and (4) Methodological and Epistemological Reflections. We conclude by calling on scholars to reject metronormative frameworks that position rural queerness as deficit and urging educators to engage these findings as tools for transformation.
Methodological Approach
Qualitative
DOI
https://doi.org/10.60808/f4yd-yt67
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Cain, L. K., McNamee, T., & Means, D. (2026). Introduction: Queering Rural Education. Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.60808/f4yd-yt67
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