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“To exist is to resist”: agency and resistance practices of LGBTI+ youth in school contexts.

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Vol. 33 No. 64 (2025): Mayo
https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78764

Abstract

This article analyzes student agency and resistance practices to hetero-cis-normativity in school contexts in the Chilean Metropolitan Region. The study is based on semi-structured interviews conducted in 2021 with high school students. The main findings reveal crucial meanings related to the role of schools in the lives of LGBTI+ youth, processes of politicization surrounding identity and oppression, and, finally, individual and collective practices to seek for the visibility of sex-gender diversity, to build support communities, to denounce hetero-cis-normative violence, and to imagine other possible educational worlds.

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YOUTHS, GENDER, EDUCATION, HETERO-CIS-NORMATIVITY

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Nacht Allende Allende, Universidad de Chile

Trabajadore social, Magíster© en Trabajo Social de la Universidad de Chile. Activista por los derechos LGBTI+. Correo electrónico: nachtallende@gmail.com

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Allende Allende, N. (2025). “To exist is to resist”: agency and resistance practices of LGBTI+ youth in school contexts . Última Década, 33(64), 37–53. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78764
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