ABSTRACT
For youth, especially queer youth, many times their stories unfold in socio-geopolitical environments and linguistic contexts that may deny their entry into a more general societal narrative. Therefore, this chapter outlines current literature around youth languaging, multilingualism, and queer language practices. It follows Nelson's (2012, pp. 95–98) call for research to include emerging queer epistemologies that “think queerly”; “think linguistically, multi-modally, and educationally”; and “think transdisciplinarily and transnationally”. First, it explores key studies regarding approaches to inquiry around youth languaging and queerness. In addition, it draws on studies that prioritize queer youth communicative practices with peer groups by connecting resources from language ideology paradigms, queer theory, and queer pedagogies research. Second, it centers on queer youth voices in situ using their narratives to explain their own language practices and multilingual, hybrid identities via empirical data from Israeli queer youth. It does so while exiting the global North and affixes itself to a geolocation that is queerly simultaneously Western and Eastern, Israel. Finally, this chapter attempts to understand how Israeli queer youth use English as a resource to identify both as queer and Israeli in an outer-circle context.
