ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the influence of the 'impact agenda' on the future trajectories of sexualities and queer research, as well as on 'queer researchers' themselves, is a question and dilemma. It hopes to be mindful of the longer moments sustained in academic practices, beyond the instant of 'impact' as a summary of what was done in the duration of a particular project. The chapter offers some nuanced engagement with both the positionalities and power of the research-researcher-researched, and the possibilities of critical academics who seek to think, theorise and understand, alongside communities. Making Space for Queer Religious Youth is a specific case-study exploration of religion and sexuality in young people's lives. Adopting an intersectional framework, it asks how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity. The chapter describes recognition that some 'publics' may be sceptical about, or even hostile towards, sexualities subjects, as a measure confounding a numerical count.
