Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
"The Term 'All Genders' Would be More Appropriate": Reflections on Teaching Trauma Literature to a Gender-fluid Youth. |
| Authors: |
MOORE, AMBER1 amberjanellemoore@gmail.com |
| Source: |
Language & Literacy: A Canadian Educational E-Journal. 2019, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p57-74. 18p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Gender, *Critical literacy, *High schools, Reflections, Literature |
| Abstract: |
Using intersectional feminism and narrative inquiry, this paper reflects on a qualitative case study where a trauma text was taught in high school English for the purposes of analyzing students' responses. One gender-fluid participant provided particularly compelling insights and so this project revisits their data. They demonstrate that their lived experience as a gender-fluid youth in school informed their authoring of themselves as a 'diversity worker' and/or 'equity person' (Ahmed, 2017), which overall, resulted in allyship and accomplice work that benefited the school. Because self-defined identities are important (Zamani-Gallaher, 2017) and there is a lack of studies that attend to trans spectrum students' positive experiences in school (Bartholomaeus & Riggs, 2017), this paper aims to address this gap. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Education Research Complete |
