Queering Safe Spaces
Being Brave beyond Binaries
Seiten
2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1883-2 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1883-2 (ISBN)
When safe spaces are no longer safe enough, what does it take to be brave? Marginalized voices from the intersections of gender, sexuality, and race provide some insights, tips, and tricks for facilitation of and participation in diverse courageous spaces.
The Safety Trap: Why We Need Diverse and Brave Spaces explains how the histories and currency of safe spaces are determined by those with privilege and power; those who choose to invite us in or leave us out. Whether we encounter boundaries at national borders, bathrooms, or birth certificates, our personal safety and wellbeing is at stake. Gender-diverse and queer non-binary people, have bodies, brains, and hearts that challenge traditional ways of being male, female, gay, straight, Black, white, good, and bad. These practitioners—at the interfaces of government policy, architecture, queer art curation, group work, sex work, and tattooing—explore cancel culture and free speech, considering what it takes to be brave. In our current times of global conflict and binary oppositions, they address the urgent need for accessible and inclusive spaces everywhere. To listen and speak across the ideological voids that divide us, we must understand the differences that underpin our feelings of safety and discomfort.
The Safety Trap: Why We Need Diverse and Brave Spaces explains how the histories and currency of safe spaces are determined by those with privilege and power; those who choose to invite us in or leave us out. Whether we encounter boundaries at national borders, bathrooms, or birth certificates, our personal safety and wellbeing is at stake. Gender-diverse and queer non-binary people, have bodies, brains, and hearts that challenge traditional ways of being male, female, gay, straight, Black, white, good, and bad. These practitioners—at the interfaces of government policy, architecture, queer art curation, group work, sex work, and tattooing—explore cancel culture and free speech, considering what it takes to be brave. In our current times of global conflict and binary oppositions, they address the urgent need for accessible and inclusive spaces everywhere. To listen and speak across the ideological voids that divide us, we must understand the differences that underpin our feelings of safety and discomfort.
Son Vivienne is chief operating officer at Transgender Victoria, a not-for-profit community-led organization advocating for gender-diverse wellbeing and peer-support.
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: Safe Spaces
Chapter 1: A Framework for Interpretation
Chapter 2: Histories of Safe Spaces
Chapter 3: The Safety Trap
Chapter 4: Bodies at Borders: Breaching the Binary
Part Two: Safe Enough in Practice
Chapter 5: Devising ‘Safe Enough’
Chapter 6: Intimate Encounters
Chapter 7: Mediated Storytelling
Part Three: Safety, Security and Risk
Chapter 8: Beneath the Surface—Embodiment and Passing
Chapter 9: Queering the Binaries
Chapter 10: How to be Brave (or Triggers to Watch Out For)
References
About the Authors
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.02.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies |
Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs |
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 158 x 237 mm |
Gewicht | 544 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-7936-1883-6 / 1793618836 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-1883-2 / 9781793618832 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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