1. Introduction: The synergistic potential of the outreach work and activism of queer social movements and schools.- 2. Educational Outreach Work in Nordic Countries: Challenges, Tensions and Contradictions for Queering Schools and Teaching about Sexual and Gender Diversity.- 3. Embodying responsibility? Understanding educators' engagement in queer educational justice work in schools.- 4. Challenges to LGBTQI inclusive education and queer activism in Taiwan.- 5. The Sexual Diversity Pastoral Care Group and the Catholic Schools in Chile: An attempt to confront heteronormativity in school spaces.- 6. Education as activism: Sexual dissidence and schooling in Spain.- 7. Queer activism and non-formal outreach work in Iran: Creating a community of support and learning.- 8. Queer Intersectional outreach actions to prevent LGBTQ+ prejudice and discrimination in schools: the Brazilian context and analysis of a local experience.- 9. We're here, we're queer... but are we in schools? Lessons learned from a multicountry project across Eastern and Southern Africa.- 10. "I'm queer and that's ok" Sharing autobiographical stories as a key method of queer activism in Austrian schools.- 11. "I decided to teach... despite the anger": using Forum Theatre to connect queer activists, teachers and school leaders to address heterosexism in schools.- 12. Intersex and education: What can schools and queer school projects learn from current discourses on intersex in Austria.- 13. Conclusions: Queering 'Politics of Pain' through activism and educational outreach work.

This book brings together leading scholars researching the field of gender, sexuality, schooling, queer activism, and social movements within different cultural contexts. With contributions from more than fifteen countries, the chapters bring fresh insights for students and scholars of gender and sexuality studies, education, and social movements in the Global North and South. The book draws together both theoretical and empirical contributions offering rich and multidisciplinary essays from scholars and activists in the field focusing on outreach work of QSM (Queer Social Movements) in schools, queer activism in educational settings, and the role of QSMs in supporting and informing queer youth.

“This book analyzes the difficulties faced by educators in developing education practice that promotes the value of sexual diversity, unsettles heteronormativity, and effectively challenges homophobic and transphobic bullying. Its chapters relate experiences in very different national contexts, exploring the possibilities for a transformative alliance between queer activism and schools that might open pathways toward a possible utopia: that of inclusion and celebration of sexual diversity within and beyond classrooms.”
—María Victoria Carrera-Fernández, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Vigo, Spain, and co-author of Educación Sexual: De la Teoría a la Práctica (2009) “This impressive collection of intersectional essays draws on country-specific examples, including countries where being LGBTIQ is still illegal, to examine the spaces of hope and possibility that can occur when schools and queer social movements connect. This is a timely and important collection that foregrounds global and intersectional perspectives that will be of immense value to researchers, educators, and activists who are committed to advocacy, resistance, and social justice.”
—Kristopher Wells, Canada Research Chair for the Public Understanding of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth at MacEwan University, Canada, and co-editor of Journal of LGBT Youth

"This book lives up to the promise of the title! The editors have brought together a highly diverse group of researchers working in global contexts which are too often overlooked in the field of queer theory and education. It is great to see these pieces assembled in one volume; this indicates the strength and breadth of scholarship in this area. People interested in how queer ideas travel in education and social movements will benefit from reading this collection."
—Mary Lou Rasmussen, Professor, Australian National University, associate-editor of Sex Education, and co-editor of the The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education (2017)

Addresses a critical gap in the scholarship of schooling and heterosexism and queer activism in schools Explores opportunities for collaboration between schools and Queer Social Movements that enables anti-heterosexism work in schools Contributors utilize a mix of research methods, including ethnography, adding an important missing piece in the current scholarship

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