'I want my [un]happy ending!' Queering happily ever after with/in a primary classroom

In this paper, I explore moments in past research when my sense-making faltered, my confusion/joy/longing proliferated, and my own feelings got the best of me. I discuss the generative potential of these 'analytical conundrums' via a queer map of messy 'complaints'. Within/across these complaints, I playfully attune to the sonic frequencies of happily ever after with/in diverse, intersecting dimensionalities. As I imagine them here, complaint mappings are provocations that invite us to sense/queer/reimagine educational research/practices/pedagogies that encourage subjects to live in one world - where having 'a life' becomes synonymous with having the right kind of intimate life. Specifically, I map out how literacy events are more-than-human scenes of entanglement, wherein gender/sex/uality/desire do not reside within individuals or things, but rather emerge via complex, entangled, and 'mobile' processes of attaching↔relating. It is my hope that mapping these 'complaints' will help tell these moments otherwise by generating a kind of un/happiness that embraces relationality, chance, possibility and wonder.