Youth, Poetry, and Zines: Rewriting the Streets as Home
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article focuses on an under-examined archive of young adult literature—words and images created by, for, and about street youth. We describe how street-identified youth use poetry and various forms of cultural jamming to engage in social commentary. Drawn from the pages of a street youth zine developed in a western Canadian city, the poems and images analyzed here illustrate the ways the youth writers remix popular cultural materials such as signs, songs and alphabet books to create new scripts about drugs, homelessness, and youth. In this literature of the streets, youth rewrite the discourses of homelessness and create new storylines that critique the way society serves its citizens. We argue that this archive also asks adult readers, critics, and teachers to rethink traditional categories of YA literature to include writings produced by and for underrepresented youth.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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 it