Casey Burkholder
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- Tier II Canada Research Chair in Social Justice in Youth and Child Studies, Education
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Burkholder, C., Hill, M. & Keehn, M. (2026). “Queer joy in sex ed is an act of repair”: Queering sex education in New Brunswick, Canada through cellphilm and zine production. Youth. 6(3),1-24. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth6030124
Switzer, S., Sadati, S. M. H., Martin, J., Burkholder, C., Fuentes, K., Ibáñez-Carrasco, F., & Mansfield, E. (2026). From research to creation: The ‘Behind the Scenes’ steps of participatory podcasting for knowledge dissemination. Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 7(2).1-23. https://doi.org/10.35844/001c.162088
Keehn, M., & Burkholder, C. (2026a). Exploring Sexuality Education Through Play and Queer Joy with Rural Early Childhood Teachers. Journal of Childhood Studies, 51(3), 65–84. https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs513202621744
Keehn, M. & Burkholder, C. (2026b). Don’t say “Lesbian”: Reflections on two sexuality education workshops with teachers in rural New Brunswick. Journal of Qualitative Research. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2026.2640849
Thorpe, A., Keehn, M., Orr, C. & Burkholder, C. (2026). Recipe for an L Word rewatch potluck. In A. Ketchum & M. Elias (eds.) Cookout: The 2026 Queer Food Conference Cookbook, 84-85. file:///Users/cburkhol/Downloads/(digital%20PDF)%20Cook%20Out%202%20The%202026%20Queer%20Food%20Conference.pdf
Burkholder, C. & Keehn, M. (2026). “Is it Good or Bad to do Anal?”: Failures in Queer Joy and Sexuality Education. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. 23(1), 68-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2024.2427013
Orr, C. E., & Burkholder, C. (2026). Introducing the special issue: on Intersex Joy. Feminist Theory, 27(2). 123-136. https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001251367024
Dudys, T., Orr, C. & Burkholder, C. (2026). Temporal disobedience: Intersex timescapes, chronopolitics, and queer joy. Feminist Theory. 27(2). 1-23. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14647001251389818
Breau, C., Burkholder, C. & Orr, C. (2026). Compulsory Dandyism? A Conversation on Intersex Joy and Desire between Dr. Christopher Breu, Dr. Casey Burkholder & Dr. Celeste Orr, Feminist Theory, 27(2). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14647001251376267
Burkholder, C., Wright, JJ. & Keehn, M. (2025). Queer joy as pedagogy. Teacher’s College Record Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 0(0), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681251401633
Burkholder,C., Hill, M., MacEntee, K., Keehn, M. & Beaumont, A. (2025). “Dykes onDollars”: Theorizing femme and other queer futures in a participatory digitalarchive. Journal of Femininities. 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1163/29501229-bja10026
O’Sullivan, L., Byers, E.S. & Burkholder, C. (2025). How does sexual health education vary in quality of its delivery from theperspective of teachers? The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 34(2), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjhs-2025-000
Orr, C. E., & Burkholder, C. (2025). Introducing the special issue: on Intersex Joy. Feminist Theory, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001251367024
Burkholder, C., Malins, P., Whitty, P., & Razavi, Z.(2025). Centering queer joy in early childhood classrooms by co-constructinginvitations to play. The Critical Social Educator, 3(2), 26-52. https://doi.org/10.70707/ncsk11243d
Mohammad, H., Burkholder, C. & Keehn, M. (2025).Unpacking the Islamophobic & queerphobic logics of the sexuality educationclassroom in New Brunswick, Canada: What might queer joy as praxis offer?Gender and Education. 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2544534
Keehn, M., & Burkholder, C. (2025). ‘New Brunswick orqueer’: building queer joy through participatory collage-making with 2SLGBTQIA youthin New Brunswick, Canada. Gender and Education, 37(5), 543–561. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2506362
Burkholder, C., Whitty, P., Malins, P., & Keehn, M. (2025).On summoning queer joy in early childhood education: Some findings from NewBrunswick, Canada. Journal of Early Childhood Research. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476718X251318894
Switzer, S., Alarcón, A., Gaztambide-Fernández, R., Burkholder, C., Howley, E. & Carrasco, F. (2024). Online and remote community-engaged facilitation: Pedagogical and ethical considerations and commitments. Journalof Participatory Research Methods. 5(3). 1-31, https://doi.org/10.35844/001c.116337
Burkholder, C. Keehn, M.,MacEntee, K., Hill, M., Beaumont, A. & Hunt, S. (2024). “There’s a lot of DIY joy”:Elevating queer joy through participatory visual research with 2SLGBTQIA folks in Atlantic Canada. Journal of Gender Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2024.2387192#abstract
Burkholder, C. & Keehn, M. (2024). Mobilizing femme pedagogy in sexuality education in New Brunswick, Canada. Curriculum Inquiry. 54(1), 29–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2024.2360569
Byers, S., O’Sullivan, L.& Burkholder, C. (2024). How Prepared are Teachers to Provide Sexual Health Education? American Journal of Sexuality Education. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15546128.2024.2344518
Burkholder, C. & Keehn,M. (2024). "In some ways they’re the people who need it the most": Mobilizing queer joy with sex ed teachers in New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education. 1(2), 1-15. Retrieved from https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jqtsie/vol1/iss2/1.