Fighting for Trans* Kids: Academic Parent Activism in the 21st Century
In this article we explore some of the affective and ethical dimensions that we have faced as parent academic-activists seeking to understand and undo some of the structural transphobia that currently exists in Canadian society. Informed by critical feminist, critical race and black feminist though...
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| author | Kimberley Manning Cindy Holmes Annie Pullen Sansfacon Julia Temple Newhook Ann Travers |
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| description | In this article we explore some of the affective and ethical dimensions that we have faced as parent academic-activists seeking to understand and undo some of the structural transphobia that currently exists in Canadian society. Informed by critical feminist, critical race and black feminist thought, trans* scholarship, queer theory, and anti-oppression analysis, we discuss how our academic-activism assumes complex configurations of privilege and vulnerability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-11e88555a0b64b98addf0ed3ee84c2342022-12-21T18:38:47ZengBrock UniversityStudies in Social Justice1911-47882015-12-019111813510.26522/ssj.v9i1.11431167Fighting for Trans* Kids: Academic Parent Activism in the 21st CenturyKimberley Manning0Cindy Holmes1Annie Pullen Sansfacon2Julia Temple Newhook3Ann Travers4Concordia UniversitySimon Fraser UniversityUniversité de MontréalMemorial UniversitySimon Fraser UniversityIn this article we explore some of the affective and ethical dimensions that we have faced as parent academic-activists seeking to understand and undo some of the structural transphobia that currently exists in Canadian society. Informed by critical feminist, critical race and black feminist thought, trans* scholarship, queer theory, and anti-oppression analysis, we discuss how our academic-activism assumes complex configurations of privilege and vulnerability.https://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/SSJ/article/view/1143transgenderchildren and youthautoethnographyparental activismacademic activismsocial action |
| spellingShingle | Kimberley Manning Cindy Holmes Annie Pullen Sansfacon Julia Temple Newhook Ann Travers Fighting for Trans* Kids: Academic Parent Activism in the 21st Century Studies in Social Justice transgender children and youth autoethnography parental activism academic activism social action |
| title | Fighting for Trans* Kids: Academic Parent Activism in the 21st Century |
| title_full | Fighting for Trans* Kids: Academic Parent Activism in the 21st Century |
| title_fullStr | Fighting for Trans* Kids: Academic Parent Activism in the 21st Century |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fighting for Trans* Kids: Academic Parent Activism in the 21st Century |
| title_short | Fighting for Trans* Kids: Academic Parent Activism in the 21st Century |
| title_sort | fighting for trans kids academic parent activism in the 21st century |
| topic | transgender children and youth autoethnography parental activism academic activism social action |
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