MOVING QUEER VISIBILITIES INTO IDENTITY-SUSTAINING PRACTICES IN CYC: TOWARD QUEER(ED) FUTURES

This essay aims at connecting child and youth care (CYC) to U.S. teacher education, educator pathways, schooling in the United States. Further, this addresses Wolfgang Vachon’s call push boundaries of CYC, specifically queering field. I offer ways education contexts practices might be considered as guidance supporting queer identities CYC. posit that there is a corporeal pedagogy CYC practitioners enact effected beyond simple visibilities, they sustain their own survival spaces through practice. also testimonio my practice an out genderqueer, Chinese Mexican who works field-based training after-school spaces. argue for critical engagement with curricula field work our programs make support sustaining identities. Finally, need continue archive — perhaps rescue collective memories order advance meaningful