Queerness as Doing in Higher Education: Narrating the Insider/Outsider Paradox as LGBTQ+ Scholars and Practitioners

208 Pages·2022·1.473 MB·English

by  Jesus Cisneros (editor), T.J. Jourian (editor), Ryan A. Miller (editor), Antonio Duran (editor)

Queerness as Being in
Higher Education
Drawing on autotheoretical methods, this insightful volume explores how
LGBTQ+ scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners exist within and
negotiate an insider/outsider paradox within higher education, highlighting
issues of affect, legibility, and embodiment.
The first of a two-volume series, this book foregrounds the experiences of
LGBTQ+ higher education scholars and practitioners in the United States as
they navigate cisheteronormative culture, structures, practices, and policies on
campus. Through theorization of contributors’ lived experiences in relation
to identity and the concept of queerness as being, the volume posits queer
identity as embodied resistance and demonstrates how this plays out within an
insider/outsider paradox. An innovative theoretical framing, this text artfully
exemplifies how queer and trans people exist simultaneously as both insider
and outsider in university communities and deepens understanding of how
critical narratives might inform institutional transformation and drives toward
equity. The book then looks to the future, discussing implications for research
and practice, using the lessons learned from the chapter authors.
Embellished with a plethora of diverse firsthand contributions and
innovative scholarship, this book will be of interest to students and scholars
of queer and trans studies, student affairs, gender and sexuality studies, and
higher education, as well as those seeking to understand the experiences of
LGBTQ+ higher education scholars and practitioners as they navigate central
tensions in their practice.
Antonio Duran, Ph.D. (he/him/él), is Assistant Professor in the Higher
and Postsecondary Education program at Arizona State University. Antonio
received a Ph.D. in higher education and student affairs from The Ohio
State University, an M.S. in student affairs in higher education from Miami
University, and a B.A. in English and American literature from New York
University. Antonio’s research examines how historical and contemporary
legacies of oppression influence college student development, experiences,
and success. In particular, he is interested in understanding and centering
the lives of queer and trans people with multiple minoritized identities in
postsecondary education settings.
Ryan A. Miller, Ph.D. (he/him/his), is Associate Professor of Higher
Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches
courses on college student development, student affairs administration,
and higher education leadership. His research agenda focuses on (1) the
experiences of minoritized social groups in higher education, with emphases
on disabled and LGBTQ+ people; and (2) the institutionalization of diversity
and equity initiatives within higher education, in curricular, administrative,
and student affairs contexts.
T.J. Jourian, Ph.D. (he/him/his), is an independent scholar and consultant
with Trans*Formational Change and an instructional designer with LifeLabs
Learning. Previously, he served as Assistant Professor of Higher Education
Leadership at Oakland University. T.J. earned his doctorate in higher
education from Loyola University Chicago, studying how trans masculine
students conceptualize masculinity. He earned his M.A. in student affairs
administration with a Multicultural Education cognate from Michigan State
University and has experience as a practitioner in Gender and Sexuality Centers
and Residential Life. Centering trans and queer people of color’s experiences
and epistemologies, his research examines race, gender, and sexuality in higher
education, with particular attention to masculinity, transness, and racialization;
campus gender and sexuality centers and practitioners; and trans*ing constructs
and methodologies.
Jesus Cisneros, Ph.D. (he/him/his), is Associate Professor of Educational
Leadership and Foundations at the University of Texas at El Paso. Jesus
obtained a doctorate in education policy and evaluation from Arizona
State University, a master’s degree in higher education administration from
Texas A&M University, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass
communications from New Mexico State University. He brings his knowledge
of higher education research and practice to highlight the intersection of
education and immigration. His research moves gender, sexuality, and
immigration status, and their conceptual margins, to the center of analysis in
an effort to explore and understand the way politics and identity interact with
various axes of inequality.

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Narrating the Insider/Outsider Paradox as LGBTQ+ Scholars
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Queerness as Being in
Higher Education
Narrating the Insider/Outsider Paradox
as LGBTQ+ Scholars and Practitioners
Edited by Antonio Duran,
Ryan A. Miller, T.J. Jourian,
and Jesus Cisneros
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003255253
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Dedicated to those who are queering all the binaries
and all the paradoxes . . .

Contents
List of Figures xii
List of Contributors xiii
1 Introduction: Unpacking the Insider/Outsider Paradox
and the Concept of Queerness as Being 1
ANTONIO DURAN AND RYAN A. MILLER
2 It Has Occasional Costs to Your Soul: Ministering
to LGBTQIA+ Communities in Higher Education 16
SHAUN TRAVERS
3 Persistence: Finding Support for LGBTQIA+ Identities
in the Field 27
DONN MATTHEW GARBY
4 Doubling-Down: Emotional Double-Burdens in
LGBTQ+ Professionals’ Practice 38
GABRIEL (GABE) C. JAVIER
5 Promises of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity:
A Conversation of Cruel Optimism Between Two
Feminist Queer Latinas 48
REBECCA AVALOS AND MONICA A. SANTANDER
6 We Got Work to Do: Testimonios of Queer Black and
Latinx Practitioner-Scholar-Advocates Navigating the
Insider/Outsider Paradox Within the Ivory Tower 59
STEPHEN SANTA-RAMIREZ AND JASON K. WALLACE