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- Title
“I’m Just Trying to Find my Way Like Most Kids”: Bisexuality, Adolescence and the Drama of One Tree Hill.
- Authors
Meyer, Michaela
- Abstract
This essay offers a narrative reading of the representation of bisexuality on One Tree Hill by examining the character Anna Tagaro. Grounding this reading in observations about bisexuality, media representation and adolescent identity formation processes, the essay exposes Anna’s representation as both a viable coming out story for an adolescent audience and a systematic erasure of bisexuality as a valid social identity. The displacement of political activism with friend and ally Peyton creates a representation that functions both as liberating and constraining simultaneously. Moreover, Anna’s inclusion as the only Latina character in an all white, all heterosexual cast offers an intersectional representation of race and sexual identity. This conflict between progress and constraint in the representation of youth identity choices offers scholars ample data for future studies in teen television and sexuality.
- Subjects
BISEXUALITY on television; ONE Tree Hill (TV program); ADOLESCENCE; TELEVISION characters; TELEVISION program plots &; themes
- Publication
Sexuality & Culture, 2009, Vol 13, Issue 4, p237
- ISSN
1095-5143
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12119-009-9056-z