CAMERAS COMPLICATING QUEER CRIMINALS: Analyzing Representations of LGBTQIA+ Juveniles in Netflix's Girls Incarcerated

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2021-08

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MAPC, The University of Tampa

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This research will consider media as public pedagogy that informs the experiences of Black LGBTQIA+ youth confined to correctional settings using concepts of adultification and respectability seen in Girls Incarcerated: Young & Locked Up. The paper addresses how the representation of Black queer girls’ intersectional identity shapes their depicted experiences in the correctional facility setting, as seen in the show. The textual analysis conducted reveals that Girls Incarcerated creates a complicated narrative for young Black LGBTQIA+ women. It almost moves to consider larger implications of these representations.

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Adultification, Women in Prison, LGBTQ Youth, Critical Media Studies, Respectability, Queer, LGBTQ Youth, Sexuality, Race, Gender, Intersectionality, Juvenile Justice, Youth in Custody, Prison Genre, Critical Discourse, Popular Culture

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