Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; 1 Reframing Queer Youth Suicide and Self-Harm; Moving beyond the 'at-risk' subject; Moving beyond individual psychopathology; Moving beyond positivism; Subjugated knowledges: Moving beyond a suicide and self-harm 'truth'; Troubling norms: Reframing queer youth suicide and self-harm; Empirical studies; Chapter overview; 2 Troubled Subject-Making; Making subjects; 'Is this normal?'; Adolescence; Heteronormativity and recognition; Troubling emotion; Hate, fear, disgust and shame
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6 Connection and Isolation: A Relational PerspectiveConnection and emotion; Troubling sociocultural and emotional norms; Relationships implicated in self-harm; Secrecy, hiding and failure; Conclusion; 7 Help-Seeking: Recognition, Power and Affective Relations; Virtual recognition; Power, autonomy and emotion; Subjects worthy of help?; Conclusion; 8 Promoting Liveable Lives; Psychomedical approaches to suicide prevention; Queering self-harm and suicide prevention; Recognition; Belonging; Becoming; Material safety; Promoting queer youth wellbeing; Online interventions
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Community-based and face-to-face settingsFostering nurturing environments; Education; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Embodied subjects, embodied distressConclusion; 3 Social Class Inequality, Heteronormativity and Shame; Class shame; Embodied shame; 'Failed' subjecthood; Conclusion; 4 Troubling Gender Norms: Gender Non-Conforming Youth; Gender non-conforming youth seeking clinical intervention; Pubertal change and embodied distress; Youth subjecthood; Discourse and sense-making; Conclusion; 5 Trans* and Genderqueer Youth Online; Gendering and subjectivation; Emotional, agentic embodiment; Opportunities for intervention; Youth and futurity; Gender-questioning youth community; Conclusion
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Offering a new way of understanding the high self-harm and suicide rates among sexual and gender minority youth, this book prioritises the perspectives and experiences of queer young people, including those who have experience of self-harming and/or feeling suicidal. Presenting analysis based on research carried out with young people both online and face-to-face, the authors offer a critical perspective on the role of norms, namely developmental norms, gender and sexuality norms, and neoliberal norms, in the production of self-harming and suicidal youth. Queer Youth, Suicide and Self-Harm is unique in the way it works at the intersection of class and sexuality, and in its specific focus on transgender youth and the concept of embodied distress. It also examines the implications of this research for self-harm reduction and suicide prevention