Transgender Worldmaking in Cyberspace: Historical Activism on the Internet

K.J., Rawson,

doi:10.14321/qed.1.2.0038

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“…The articles describe trans individuals sharing identity/expression options with others, with studies finding that trans individuals often learned about the concept of transness from other trans individuals (Kosenko et al, 2018;Saltzburg & Davis, 2010). Studies also found that trans individuals who are physically transitioning may share detailed information about the impact of HRT over time through videos and photos (Eckstein, 2018;Hawkins & Gieseking, 2017;Miller, 2017;Rawson, 2014). Information regarding non-medical transition was also shared, such as beauty/make-up tips, tips on how to "pass", suggestions for developing "masculine mannerisms", along with other appearance-related information (Cannon, 2017;Gauthier & Chaudoir, 2004;Miller, 2017).…”

Section: Identity and Expressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trans intracommunity support & knowledge sharing in the United States & Canada: A scoping literature review

Harner

2021

Health Soc Care Community

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Section: Identity and Expressionmentioning

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Trans intracommunity support & knowledge sharing in the United States & Canada: A scoping literature review

Harner

2021

Health Soc Care Community

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“…As demonstrated in other PAR studies with marginalized communities in Canada (e.g. Ginn and Kulig, 2015; Riecken et al., 2006; Sakamoto et al., 2009), PAR researchers view marginalized people not only as research participants but as individuals who hold important knowledge and skills that offer innovative solutions to the problems they face.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 89%

Art as a transformative practice: A participatory action research project with trans* youth

Asakura¹,

Lundy

Black

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Qualitative Social Work

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Given that promoting social justice is one of the central organizing principles of social work, it comes as no surprise that participatory action research (PAR) has gained much attention among social work researchers. While much has been written about promising practices of PAR with various marginalized communities, there remains a dearth of PAR literature that focuses on trans* people, a population often under attack in current socio-political climates. In this paper, we report on a PAR project in which a trans* artist worked closely with trans* youth participants (n = 5) to assist them through a creative project. Using a queer theoretical lens and drawing from the concept of "queer world-making," the participants recast cultural representations about what it means to be trans* in their chosen artistic medium. This paper suggests that art can serve as a transformative research practice with trans* youth. Our findings suggest that the rhetorical binary of trans* vulnerability and resilience does not adequately represent lived experience. We make this argument by demonstrating the following processes through which youths engaged art in this PAR project: 1) countering normative discourses of what it means to be trans*, 2) promoting self-reflection and expression, and 3) facilitating 'queer counterpublics.' In so doing, we make an argument for art as a qualitative research process that holds much promise in uncovering and challenging the normative discourse and developing a much more complex and nuanced understanding of what it means to be trans* youth.

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“…Cavalcante (2016) has similarly found that transgender-centered websites enable “architectures of organized care and concern” as members of trans counterpublics readily support one another through physical transition in an interactive media environment made possible through new media outlets. Rawson (2014) compellingly argues that transgender worldmaking online is an especially important site of historical activism because, “cyberspace provides a revolutionary tool for creating, sharing, and preserving trans histories that would otherwise remain untold.” Barnett (2015) has detailed how blogs authored by trans people have created a “transsexual counterpublic” in which the human body is constructed as a natural and continual site of transformation in opposition to dominant constructions of the body and gender as normatively immutable.…”

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#GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online

Jackson

Bailey

Welles

2017

New Media & Society

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In this research we examine the advocacy and community building of transgender women on Twitter through methods of network and discourse analysis and the theory of networked counterpublics. By highlighting the network structure and discursive meaning-making of the #GirlsLikeUs network, we argue that the digital labor of trans women, and especially trans women of color, represents the vanguard of struggles over self-definition. We find that trans women on Twitter, led by Janet Mock and Laverne Cox, and in response to histories of misrepresentation and ongoing marginalization and violence, deliberately curate an intersectional networked counterpublic that works to legitimize and support trans identities and advocate for trans autonomy in larger publics and counterpublics.

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Transgender Worldmaking in Cyberspace: Historical Activism on the Internet

Cited by 20 publications

References 6 publications

Trans intracommunity support & knowledge sharing in the United States & Canada: A scoping literature review

Trans intracommunity support & knowledge sharing in the United States & Canada: A scoping literature review

Art as a transformative practice: A participatory action research project with trans* youth

#GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online

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