Hurricane Katrina and a curious closet for queers: a short story

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Overton, L. 2025. Hurricane Katrina and a curious closet for queers: a short story. in: Dominey-Howes, D., Rushton, A., Leonard, W., Cianfarani, M., Overton, L. and Wu, H. (ed.) Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises Singapore Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 353-365
Chapter titleHurricane Katrina and a curious closet for queers: a short story
AuthorsOverton, L.
Abstract

This vignette is a fictionalised account of how the pressures young queer people experience in their everyday lives are magnified under disaster conditions. The vignette highlights the importance of storytelling in presenting the complexities and subjective particularities of young queer people’s everyday lives that may be missed or glossed over in more traditional academic research. Storytelling, the author argues, is messy and can disrupt many of the certainties of accepted academic conventions.

Sustainable Development Goals10 Reduced inequalities
5 Gender equality
Middlesex University ThemeCreativity, Culture & Enterprise
Sustainability
Health & Wellbeing
Page range353-365
Book titleQueering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises
EditorsDominey-Howes, D., Rushton, A., Leonard, W., Cianfarani, M., Overton, L. and Wu, H.
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Place of publicationSingapore
SeriesSustainable Development Goals Series
ISBN
Hardcover9789819638567
Electronic9789819638574
Publication dates
Online30 Jun 2025
Publication process dates
CompletedJun 2025
SubmittedJan 2025
Deposited25 Jul 2025
Output statusPublished
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3857-4_22
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Is part ofQueering disasters, climate change and humanitarian crises
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