This paper troubles positivist and pathological discourses surrounding youth suicide through critical engagement with young adult fiction: Skim and 13 Reasons Why. These texts offer opportunities for readers to dwell on and question youth suicide prevention and intervention through an engagement with affect, gender, queerness, and race. Skim (2008, Groundwood) and 13 Reasons Why (2017) counter ‘it gets better’ stories: they interrogate the inevitability of bullying, question the predictable approaches that schools take in their response to violence, and assert that the issue at hand is more systematic. Together, these analytics que(e)ry youth suicide by asking: how does the biopolitics (or necropolitics) of livability fit into popularized understandings of youth suicide? Read together, Skim and 13 Reasons Why provide opportunities to meaningfully question livability through the characters of Skim and Courtney—two Asian girls who bear the brunt of racist and sexist violence. Skim becomes a ‘project’ of white girls’ anti-suicide campaign and Courtney is barely living as she attempts to secure the plaform of ‘model minority.’ Both girls are queer, too. In its entirety, this paper arguse that popularized models of suicide intervention continue to ignore the pressing needs of queer Asian girls—such as Skim and Courtney.

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Que（e）rying青少年自杀：脱脂中的性别歧视，种族主义和暴力行为以及13个原因

本文通过与青年成人小说的批判性交往，围绕青年自杀的实证主义和病理学话语带来麻烦：略读和13个理由。这些文本为读者提供了机会，通过与情感，性别，古怪和种族的互动，深入探讨和预防青年自杀预防和干预。Skim（2008，Groundwood）和13个理由（2017）反驳“情况变得更好”的故事：他们质疑了欺凌的必然性，质疑学校对暴力反应采取的可预测方法，并断言手头的问题更多系统的。这些分析共同询问以下问题，从而使年轻人自杀：宜居性的生物政治（或死政治）如何适应对年轻人自杀的普遍理解？一起阅读 脱脂和13个理由为什么要通过脱脂和考特尼的角色提供有意义地质疑宜居性的机会，这两个亚洲女孩首当其冲是种族主义和性别歧视暴力。脱脂成为白人女孩反自杀运动的“项目”，而考特尼（Courtney）勉强维持生活，因为她试图确保“模范少数民族”的平台。两个女孩也很奇怪。总体而言，本文认为，自杀干预的流行模式继续忽视了亚洲酷儿（如脱脂和考特尼）的紧迫需求。