ABSTRACT

This chapter revisits the 2008 murder of Lawrence ‘Larry’ King in Oxnard, California, and traces the liberal and conservative discourses from advocacy organisations, media, and the subsequent case of Larry’s murderer, Brandon McInerney. At issue were the rights of students like Larry and what schools need to do to protect all students. In making sense of these events, the author advances a theory of too muchness, or the embodied practices of subjectivity that unsettle inclusive-based arguments of sexual citizenship. Implications for education are drawn from the analysis to suggest that sexual citizenship must not simply do the work of securing rights but should also contend with the embodied politics of subjectivity that many queer and trans of colour students perform.