Animating failure: digital collaboration at the intersection of sex, race and culture.

This paper throws a provocative light on marginalizing practices around race and religion within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and questioning communities, as explored and expressed through a community consultation and animation programme, Teaching Diversities, in Melbourne, Australia. Drawing on Kumashiro's (2001, [2004] 2009) urge to return queerness to social action, and Halberstam's (2011) identification of the queer possibility in failure, this paper argues that working at the intersection of race, sexualities and culture has never been more explosive, especially set against increasingly conservative educational and global flows. For sexualities researchers who are concerned with the nexus between cultural diversities and the religious/secular ideological divide, this article offers possibilities for recreating queer for the twenty-first century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]