ABSTRACT
The Beyond Bullying Project, a school-based storytelling and research project, aims to push beyond the thinking that guides many contemporary school-based anti-bullying efforts. Drawing on ethnographic field notes and interviews, we consider racialised expectations of assimilation and accountability that shaped school responses to the project. Neo-liberal pressures locate the project and its recasting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth, sexualities and citizenship inside educational markets that require students to become self-regulating actors and which prioritise some youth over racialised others. In the midst of these constraints, we identify possibilities for alliances that interrupt persistent neo-liberal scripts of youth, sexuality and citizenship.
