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"We Don't Have to Take Things so Seriously": Humor, Queer Livability, and Homonormativity for a Rural English Language Arts Teacher

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Brandon Haskey-Valerius; Ryan Schey – Rural Educator, 2025

Extending and challenging existing research about LGBTQIA+ life in rural educational contexts, this ethnographically informed qualitative study describes how Lulu--a white, cisgender, queer secondary English language arts teacher in a rural, public school in the Midwest--discursively constructed the functions of her humor with respect to teaching,…

Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Language Arts, English Teachers, Rural Schools