Sustaining Textual Passions: Teaching With Texts Youth Love

Building on youth literacies in formal learning spaces is a promising direction for asset-based literacy designs. However, response to ways that academic can deaden passionate study, it important attend the resulting affective flows of such practices. This study traces how affect was sustained and dampened high school English classroom intentionally brought together fandom We listened encounters with popular text Grey's Anatomy unfolded across class, particular focus Black, Indigenous, People Color (BIPOC) focal students’ experiences. found derision dismissal certain texts experiences by peers (undergirded dominant narratives about literary taste) resonance. All same, collective intensities were through respectful discourse between fans potential as well BIPOC women's fugitive practices resisting dampening White students.