The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education

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Autor(a) principal: Vázquez-Rodríguez, Lucía-Gloria
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: García-Ramos, Francisco-José, Zurian, Francisco A.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i3.4115
Resumo: Queer teenagers are avid readers of popular culture; as numerous audience studies prove, television plays a significant role in identity-formation for LGBTIQ+ youth, providing them with the information about sexuality, gender roles or non-normative relationships usually unavailable in their educational and home environments. In this article we analyze how some of the protagonists of Netflix’s TV show Sex Education (2019-present) utilize popular culture as a tool to explore their desires, forbidden fantasies, and gender expressions, becoming instrumental in the formation of their queer identities in a way that metatextually reflects the role LGBTIQ+ shows play for their audiences. Such is the case of Adam, a bisexual teenager that masturbates to the image of a fictional actor featured in a 1980s action film poster; Lily, whose sexual fantasies of role playing with alien creatures are strongly influenced by spatial sci-fi; and Ola, whose onyric universe is influenced by David Bowie’s genderbending aesthetics. However, the most representative example of how popular culture influences the formation of queer identities is Eric, whose non-conforming gender expression follows the example set by the trans characters in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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title The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education
spellingShingle The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education
Vázquez-Rodríguez, Lucía-Gloria
gender identity; identity formation; LGBTIQ+ media; popular culture; queer; Sex Education; teens
title_short The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education
title_full The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education
title_fullStr The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education
title_full_unstemmed The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education
title_sort The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education
author Vázquez-Rodríguez, Lucía-Gloria
author_facet Vázquez-Rodríguez, Lucía-Gloria
García-Ramos, Francisco-José
Zurian, Francisco A.
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author2 García-Ramos, Francisco-José
Zurian, Francisco A.
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Vázquez-Rodríguez, Lucía-Gloria
García-Ramos, Francisco-José
Zurian, Francisco A.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv gender identity; identity formation; LGBTIQ+ media; popular culture; queer; Sex Education; teens
topic gender identity; identity formation; LGBTIQ+ media; popular culture; queer; Sex Education; teens
description Queer teenagers are avid readers of popular culture; as numerous audience studies prove, television plays a significant role in identity-formation for LGBTIQ+ youth, providing them with the information about sexuality, gender roles or non-normative relationships usually unavailable in their educational and home environments. In this article we analyze how some of the protagonists of Netflix’s TV show Sex Education (2019-present) utilize popular culture as a tool to explore their desires, forbidden fantasies, and gender expressions, becoming instrumental in the formation of their queer identities in a way that metatextually reflects the role LGBTIQ+ shows play for their audiences. Such is the case of Adam, a bisexual teenager that masturbates to the image of a fictional actor featured in a 1980s action film poster; Lily, whose sexual fantasies of role playing with alien creatures are strongly influenced by spatial sci-fi; and Ola, whose onyric universe is influenced by David Bowie’s genderbending aesthetics. However, the most representative example of how popular culture influences the formation of queer identities is Eric, whose non-conforming gender expression follows the example set by the trans characters in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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