Representations of rural lesbian lives in young adult fiction
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Abstract
This paper examines representations of rural lesbian lives in three young adult novels. The novels analysed are Beauty of the broken by Tawni Waters (2014 Waters, T. (2014). Beauty of the broken. New York, NY: Simon Pulse. [Google Scholar]), Julie Anne Peters (2005 Peters, J. A. (2005). Pretend you love me. New York, NY: Little Brown. [Google Scholar]) Pretend you love me, and Forgive me if you’ve heard this one before by Karelia Stetz-Waters (2014 Stetz-Waters, K. (2014). Forgive me if you’ve heard this one before. Portland, OR: Ooligan Press. [Google Scholar]). The first of the novels by Waters (2014 Waters, T. (2014). Beauty of the broken. New York, NY: Simon Pulse. [Google Scholar]. Beauty of the broken. New York, NY: Simon Pulse) presents a very negative portrait of rural life for queer youth. Its message is that the only positive queer life is one that is lived in the urban. In contrast, the texts by Peters (2005 Peters, J. A. (2005). Pretend you love me. New York, NY: Little Brown. [Google Scholar]. Pretend you love me. New York, NY: Little Brown) and Stetz-Waters (2014 Stetz-Waters, K. (2014). Forgive me if you’ve heard this one before. Portland, OR: Ooligan Press. [Google Scholar]. Forgive me if you’ve heard this one before. Portland, OR: Ooligan Press) present rural spaces as potentially both inclusive and exclusive for queer youth. These novels also demonstrate that urban spaces can be equally problematic for queer youth. While we do not discount that Waters (2014 Waters, T. (2014). Beauty of the broken. New York, NY: Simon Pulse. [Google Scholar]. Beauty of the broken. New York, NY: Simon Pulse) description of rural life may be the experience of some queer youth, we argue that the novels by Peters (2005 Peters, J. A. (2005). Pretend you love me. New York, NY: Little Brown. [Google Scholar]. Pretend you love me. New York, NY: Little Brown) and Stetz-Waters (2014 Stetz-Waters, K. (2014). Forgive me if you’ve heard this one before. Portland, OR: Ooligan Press. [Google Scholar]. Forgive me if you’ve heard this one before. Portland, OR: Ooligan Press) offer a more nuanced and complicated notion of place and its relationship to non-normative sexual subjectivities.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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