Towards a Cultural Geography of Queer Collective Biography

该项目将通过叙述过去和现在的人物的生活和成就，研究女性和LGBTQ+人物的集体传记在多样化儿童和青少年文学中的作用。这些书籍的例子包括反叛女孩的晚安故事系列，奇妙的伟大女性系列，彩虹革命者：50个LGBTQ+创造历史的人，和酷儿英雄：满足53个LGBTQ英雄从过去和现在，等等。本项目将解决以下三个关键问题：1。女性和LGBTQ+人物集体传记的制作如何破坏男性主义，异性恋知识，并有助于增加儿童文学和传统历史叙述的多样性？2.儿童非小说文学的成功之处、复杂性和对内容、主题和信息的批评是什么？3.传记如何被用来教授性别和性问题，也许为学校课程中的差距提供潜在的解决方案，由于围绕女权主义主题和LGBTQ+教育的不安而产生？

This project will examine the role of collective biographies of women and LGBTQ+ figures in diversifying children's and young adult literature through narrating the lives and achievements of figures, past and present. Examples of books include the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, the Fantastically Great Women series, Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ+ People Who Made History, and Queer Heroes: Meet 53 LGBTQ Heroes from Past and Present, amongst others. This project will address three key questions as listed below: 1. How can the production of collective biographies of women and LGBTQ+ figures disrupt masculinist, heterosexual knowledge, and contribute to increasing the diversity of children's literature and of conventional accounts of history?2. What are the successes, complexities and critiques of the content, themes and messages of children's non-fiction literature?3. How can biography be used to teach issues of gender and sexuality, perhaps providing potential solutions to the gaps in the school curriculum, created as a result of the unease surrounding feminist topics and LGBTQ+ education?