Accounting for the Self, Locating the Body
Explore the connections between queerness, embodiment, and locality through the lens of collected stories and poetry from a genderqueer musician living in Canada.
About The Book
Table of Contents
About The Author
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How do queerness, place, embodiment, movement, and relationality connect and intersect within identity?
Through collected stories, lyrics, and poems, genderqueer author Kael Reid explores the messiness and complexity of life and identity. Drawn from the author’s lived experience, this autobiographical collection reflects on identity development, relationships with people and places, movement, and what it means to inhabit a queer body that is always becoming.
This collection is ideal reading for students of Queer and LGBT+ Studies, English Literature, Canadian Studies, Gender Studies, and related courses.
How do queerness, place, embodiment, movement, and relationality connect and intersect within identity?
Through collected stories, lyrics, and poems, genderqueer author Kael Reid explores the messiness and complexity of life and identity. Drawn from the author’s lived experience, this autobiographical collection reflects on identity development, relationships with people and places, movement, and what it means to inhabit a queer body that is always becoming.
This collection is ideal reading for students of Queer and LGBT+ Studies, English Literature, Canadian Studies, Gender Studies, and related courses.
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Abstract
- Content warning
- Table of Contents
- Learning objectives
- Introduction: Building a queer lineage through storytelling
- 1 Groundhog in the woodpile
- 2 Science class, 1987
- 3 Orange blouse, red lipstick
- 4 Melissa’s pub, 1989
- 5 High
- 6 Go Fish
- 7 A revelation
- 8 The night we watched The Puppy Episode
- 9 Wildhorse Creek Road
- 10 Heal myself4 (Reid, 2006)
- 11 Truckdriver5 (Reid, 2009)
- 12 The only dyke at the open mic6 (Reid, 2009)
- 13 In this soul, in this body
- 14 Crying holy7 (Reid, 2011)
- 15 Lesbians and biker dudes
- 16 Uncle Jim
- 17 I whispered the word, “lesbian”
- 18 Rape fantasy
- 19 When I was a little boy8 (Reid, 2011)
- 20 A story of leaving
- 21 Her
- 22 Something ‘bout you and me9 (Reid, 2016)
- 23 Somewhere in between
- 24 Together
- 25 For the land of Beaver Valley
- 26 The summer afternoon
- 27 Lying on a hill
- Discussion questions and recommended projects
- Discussion questions
- Projects
- Notes
- References
- Recommended resources
- Index
Kael Reid is an Assistant Professor in Children, Childhood and Youth Studies with the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. They are also a genderqueer singer-songwriter and musician and use collaborative songwriting and recording in their research with young people and adults.
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