2023
DOI: 10.1177/20570473231186839
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“Our Pain Makes Us Family”: March For Our Lives and the constitutive role of gun violence trauma in youth publics

Abstract: This essay examines the dynamics of diverse youth public formation through analysis of the 20 student speeches delivered at the 2018 March For Our Lives rally. I argue that the collective identification as youth survivors of gun violence trauma functions to constitute this diverse youth public. I trace how the speakers’ shared gun violence trauma enabled them to form a racially integrated coalition while not discrediting their differently positioned identities and disparate gun violence experiences. In doing s… Show more

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