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Groomer Schools 2: Queer Futurity and the Sexual Abuse of Your Children

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Queer Theories in the Provision of Care for All Children

In this article, i move beyond commonly employed sociological techniques for securing the child's right to l g b t c identity. I assert that queer theories growing attention to discourses of childhood offers methodological, pedagogical and epistemological advances to the provision of care for all children. So a tist be an ongoing project. We're not going to secure rights and move on. The rhetoric of innocence that envelops normative theories of childhood development has the damaging effect of reducing the child to a figure without complexity. It destroy it's destructive of their imaginative and social capacities unless we attune it to the possibility that they're queer in the present or will become queer in the future.

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