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Decentering Pain & Centering Joy: Adding Transgender Stories To The Academy, Logan H. Melo
Decentering Pain & Centering Joy: Adding Transgender Stories To The Academy, Logan H. Melo
The Vermont Connection
As it stands, transgender stories are often framed through the cisgender gaze and by the pain transgender people experience from societal expectations. Being Transgender is not about and should not be equated to the pain and dysphoria that one may experience. Being transgender is about the joy of discovering yourself and beginning to feel comfortable within your own body. This paper reviews Queer theory and its gaps when it comes to transgender identity; as well as transgender studies and the reframing of transgender identity. This paper also reviews literature that focus on transgender joy and reframing transgender identity within a …
“What We Do Have, We Can Polish”: Towards Quare Placemaking In Lgbtq+ Student Affairs, K. Elyse Ellis
“What We Do Have, We Can Polish”: Towards Quare Placemaking In Lgbtq+ Student Affairs, K. Elyse Ellis
The Vermont Connection
Both Queer studies and Black studies have come a long way in the last decade of higher education scholarship. Even so, there is still a gap in the literature of dual-marginalized students, particularly Black Queer students. Drawing from multiple critical theories, this literature review looks at how secondary marginalization takes place in single-identity campus centers, and how Black Queer students co-create spaces for themselves in response to this violence. How do single-identity centers on campuses harm Quare students? How does centering blackness in Quare communities impact student experiences? What can we learn from Quare social life, and how can student …