ABSTRACT
Previous chapters have highlighted how rare it was for children in the study to sustain any comfortable security with their gendered and sexual identities, produced as they were in a constant flux of power and powerlessness.As we have seen, many children articulated personal struggles and pressures in trying to get their gender/sexuality ‘right’ and most had, at one time or another, been subject to some form of gender-based or sexualised teasing (or Othering) for stepping outside of or failing to project appropriate ‘masculinities’ or ‘femininities’. However, this chapter is not about those wannabe hegemonic boys or wannabe girlie-girls who were routinely subjugated for struggling to pull off convincing gendered/sexual performances. Rather, it is about those children who experienced the same intense feelings of marginalisation but continued to actively resist normative gender and sexual discourses and ways of being.
