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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Queer Religious Youth in Colliding Contexts -- 1 Contradictory Subjectivities? The Space of Research-Researcher-Researched Identities -- 2 Making Space at the (Queer) Academic Table? -- 3 Creative Scenes: Sounding Religious, Sounding Queer -- 4 Online Settings: Becoming and Believing -- 5 Making Space for Young Lesbians? Gendered Sites, Scripts and Sticking Points -- 6 Policy Spaces and Public Imaginations -- Bibliography -- Index.

This collection explores the relationship between new equality regimes and continued societal inequalities, exploring change, ambivalence and resistance specifically in relation to compulsory and post-compulsory education, seeking to more fully situate the educational journeys and experiences of staff and students

Class, race a\nd gender (dis)advantages are situated in relation to urban-rural contrasts, where 'future selves' are reconfigured in and through 'local' and 'global' sites: people inhabit shifting times and places, from industrial landscapes of the 'past', to a current present and (imagined) 'cosmopolitan' 'regenerated' future. Fitting into Place adopts a multi-dimensional interdisciplinary approach to explore shifting geographies and temporalities that re-constitute 'city publics' - and the place of the 'public sociologist'.

This chapter hopes to speaks to the theme of Intersections of Ageing, Gender, Sexualities as matched to – or far from – the particular research projects which I have undertaken, often involving 'intersections' of class, gender and sexuality. In considering what to present at the related conference, and write-up in this chapter, I wanted to question (myself), and had to resist (my own), urges to pull data from particular aged research participants, as older or, indeed, younger; certainly I could have done this as my research has usually involved participants across diverse age ranges. In my current project on Making Space for Queer Identifying Religious Youth, I am seeing how young people inhabit particular times, places, bodies as age-d subjects, with certain rememberings of the past and projections for the future (Taylor 2015). To think of these intersections, involves a consideration of the 'queer subject of 'getting on'', as a beneficiary of international Equalities Legislation, and new 'sexual citizen'. In this chapter I want to explore three cases, that of 'queer families', 'queer cares', and the queer spaces of academia, to inflect ideas of 'moving on' and becoming as interrupted and interrupting of linear trajectories of, for example, becoming sexual citizenship, becoming adult, and becoming academic. I interweave these examples to explore interruptions to normative career-caring trajectories, highlighting the work-life balances and the effort of 'getting on', as applied in research-researched-researcher exchanges, experiences and biographies.

This paper explores the construction of vocational and familial futures, in times of 'aspiring', 'post-welfare,' or 'crisis' youth transitions, as mediated by sexual-religious identification. By considering the intersectional relations of both sexuality and religion in constructing young people's aspirations, the paper highlights pragmatic and caring orientations, including a 'calling' to religion as a site of present-future vocational and familial investment. I challenge the separation of religion and sexuality in youth transitions, and in notions of the 'times we're in' as compelling certain kinds of future-orientated aspirant (and secular) selves. Overall, the article hopes to contribute to theorising the intersection sexuality and religion in further understanding the subversive – and conservative – potential of religious-sexual values and futures. Such orientations interface with aspects of 'getting by' and 'getting on' and at once re-inscribe and stretch normative vocational and familial choices.