Volume 3, Issue 2 (2026) Loud, Proud, Rooted, and Resisting: Activism and Advocacy in Tough Times
Editors' Introduction
Editors’ Introduction: Loud, Proud, Rooted, and Resisting – Activism and Advocacy in Tough Times
Lee Airton and Elizabeth J. Meyer
Research Articles
“You Can’t Ban That!”: LGBTQ+ Youth of Color Speak Back to Book Bans in Utah
Sonny Partola and Leticia Alvarez Gutiérrez
Knowledgemaking as Resistance for Queer Youth
Katie Clonan-Roy, Shereen Naser, Daylun Armstrong, Mars Bonilla-Gilgenbach, Thomas Haynes, Rae Jackson, Liz Goncy, and Kimberly Anne Fuller
Engines for activism: GSA advisors sparking student activism for LGBTQ+ equity
Elizabeth J. Meyer, Rebecca Grace Kaplan, and Erin Kurtz
Rural School Counselors Supporting Queer Students in the Southeastern United States
Harley Devon Locklear and Damaris Bates
Pedagogies of Heart/break: Nurturing Trans Resistance through Beloved Witnessing
Page Valentine Regan
The Risk of Risk
Julia Sinclair-Palm and LJ Slovin
Conceptual Article
Why Keep the LGBTQIA+ Acronym Together – "Wouldn't It Just Be Best to Split the Acronym?"
Kim Andreassen, Bri McKenzie, Julian Chen, and Wendy Cumming-Potvin
Innovations in Pedagogy
Beyond the binary: Queer and trans activism in Ontario French as second language (FSL) classrooms
Robert Grant and Elm Allister
Practice and Policy
Pride on the Prairie: Resistance as Pedagogy in Oklahoma
Madelyn D. Evans, Ashley Herndon, and Sage A. Mauldin
“No (my parents can’t know I’m trans)…for now:" Resisting anti-transgender backlash in schools through a policy experiment
Lee Airton and Mik Turje
From the Field: Lessons from Saskatchewan
j wallace skelton, Ashlee Sandiford, Alex Schmidt, and Hannah Paul
Book Review
Special Issue Editors
- Lee Airton, Queen's University, Canada
- Special Issue Editor
- Elizabeth J. Meyer, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
- Special Issue Editor


