When Everything Feels Like the Horror Movies: The Ghostliness of Queer Youth Futurity

Authors

  • Derritt Mason
  • Joshua Whitehead

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.rydl.v2i1.1536

Keywords:

When Everything Feels Like the Movies, Queer Futurities, Queer Youth, LGBTQIA+, youth literature

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Published

2019-06-10