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Research Brief: "Toward A Theory Of Discontinuous Career Transition: Investigating Career Transitions Necessitated By Traumatic Life Events", Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University Dec 2011

Research Brief: "Toward A Theory Of Discontinuous Career Transition: Investigating Career Transitions Necessitated By Traumatic Life Events", Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

This brief summarizes a scholarly article of the same name. It reviews research which evaluates the impact of trauma on a veterans' career trajectory and path, and the circumstances in which veterans successfully transition or do not.


Intimate Allies: Identity, Community, And Everyday Activism Among Cisgender People With Trans-Identified Partners, Avery Brooks Tompkins Jan 2011

Intimate Allies: Identity, Community, And Everyday Activism Among Cisgender People With Trans-Identified Partners, Avery Brooks Tompkins

Sociology - Dissertations

This dissertation blends traditional ethnographic data from interviews and observations with digital ethnographic data from blogs and YouTube videos to present stories of identity, community, and activist-oriented experiences from white cisgender women who are partnered with trans-identified people on the FTM spectrum. The project addresses the following broad questions: How does being the cisgender partner of a trans person inform complexities around the ability to articulate sexual identity? How are cisgender partners finding community and organizing themselves into new forms of community when they often lack language with which to describe their relationships? In what ways are cisgender people allies …