Futurity, innocence, and childish subversion—as concepts, as frameworks—have yet to catch up to where the child has moved in the present century. The contributors to this issue explore topics that are both vital and challenging for current queer studies, including paradoxical exportations of the U.S. "innocent" child abroad, the queer child under same-sex marriage law, child revolutionaries' actions in Egypt, and the colonial afterlife of the boarding school for indigenous children. Following the twists and turns of children now, contributors confront how race, gender, and sexuality are made to live and grow in children’s bodies.

Contributors
Paul Amar, Julian Gill-Peterson, Clifford J. Rosky, Rebekah Sheldon, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Mary Zaborskis

Julian Gill-Peterson is Assistant Professor of English and Children’s Literature at the University of Pittsburgh.

Rebekah Sheldon is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University.

Kathryn Bond Stockton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah and the author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, also published by Duke University Press.