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Cover argues that minority media is a significant source for information on sex and sexuality for youth (2005: 111).

This chapter thus attends to Australian queer university student activist media in order to reveal some queer student activists’ theories of oppression through an examination of a sample of such media from 2003 to 2006. There has been some research into gay and lesbian community media (Cover 2002: 110 Cover 2005: 113), however, queer student activist media is virtually unstudied. Rob Cover argues that this research primarily targets gay and lesbian representation, stereotyping and visibility in the mainstream mass media (2002: 110).

Russo 1981 Gross 1991 Fejes and Petrich 1993 Gibson 2004 Barnhurst 2007). There is an abundance of research into media representations of queer (e.g. There is a National Union of Students (NUS) queer department, two NUS queer officers, an NUS queer mailing list, an annual NUS queer student conference ('Queer Collaborations'), queer departments and officers in student unions across Australia, designated queer spaces in Australian universities, and dozens of queer student publications. Institutionally there are a number of organizations representing and serving Australian LGBTIQ students. Queerness (as understood in this book) and queer students are a visible aspect of Australian tertiary communities. The suffering involved in undoing that relation becomes the condition of possibility for an emancipated enjoyment and one that, as Teaching to Transgress enacts such a death drive by making us confront the relational dependency of the Symbolic order of ' life ' upon the ' social death ' of Real others in the alienated structure that organizes the exchangeability of our desires. Thus, I claim that Teaching to Transgress succeeds in destroying an affective attachment to domination by killing the imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchal super-ego injunction to enjoy life as such, that is, life unmitigated by additional adjectives that would complicate the universality of its reach. More importantly, I reinterpret that teaching as the setting in motion of a death drive that orients critical thinking towards the destruction of the Symbolic order of our desires, influenced by the political interpretation of this psychoanalytical category in the queer theory of Lee Edelman (2004). I trace the liberatory force of hooks' radical pedagogy back to her Teaching to Transgress (hooks 1994). Placing desire in the pedagogical milieu, this article is about the revolutionary desire articulated in bell hooks' radical pedagogy.

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