Labouring over the truth : learning to be/come queer

Our address to the production of gendered, sexed, and sexualised subjects in neoliberal times foregrounds the obligation of subjects to be self-reflexive, to labour, learn, discover, and express the inner truth of themselves. In so doing, we articulate a constitutive relation between the truth of the 'self' produced in the heteronormative practices of schooling, and the multiple and possible truths and selves produced in young people's engagement with digital social media. In considering the practices through which young people are engaged in the ongoing negotiation of their own subjectivities, we re/articulate Foucault's (1992) insistence that sexuality is not a natural biological and fixed truth of the self, but rather, constituted and regulated through historically specific and variable discourses and practices