The homophobia and hostility experienced by queer learners in Icelandic and South African schools are well documented. Drawing on in-depth interviews with queer youth (16–19 years) in Iceland and South Africa, this paper aims at understanding how queer youth navigate heterosexist and homophobic school spaces and create some positive spaces. The findings highlight that queer youth employ various social and discursive strategies to (re)position themselves as agentic subjects. They counter heteronormativity by drawing on what we define in this paper as “queer capital”, which entails deploying various social and discursive strategies to establish some kind of distinction within the school and in their interaction with peers. Humour, parody, and active resistance, as well as finding ways to escape the regulatory mechanisms of gender, and relating easily to both genders, are examples of the social/discursive strategies employed by our participants and discussed in the paper. The paper then concludes with implications for research with queer youth.

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困扰冰岛和南非教育中酷儿青年受害的话语

冰岛和南非学校的酷儿学习者所经历的同性恋恐惧症和敌意是有据可查的。本文通过对冰岛和南非酷儿青年（16-19 岁）的深入采访，旨在了解酷儿青年如何驾驭异性恋和恐同学校空间，并创造一些积极的空间。调查结果强调，酷儿青年采用各种社会和话语策略来（重新）将自己定位为代理主体。他们通过利用我们在本文中定义的“酷儿资本”来对抗异性恋，这需要部署各种社会和话语策略，以在学校内部以及与同龄人的互动中建立某种区别。幽默、戏仿和积极反抗，以及寻找逃避性别调节机制的方法，并且很容易与两性联系起来，是我们的参与者采用并在论文中讨论的社会/话语策略的例子。然后，论文总结了对酷儿青年研究的启示。