ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 attends to the precarious nature of safe spaces. Turning from how students' anxiety necessitated the creation of safe spaces and places, this chapter focuses on how these students traversed educational boundaries and borders; how one negotiates, makes sense of, and orders their world is a knotted process that is layered with social norms, personal identities, values, and the like. At Milford High, there was a price to pay for the creation of and participation in safe spaces. This chapter considers the physical, emotional, and cultural impact of creating safe spaces within oppressive contexts.
