Centering the “T”: Envisioning a Trans Jotería Pedagogy

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-123
Author(s):  
Jack Caraves
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Word ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Trans Women ◽  
Feminist Pedagogies ◽  
Foundational Work

In this piece, the author reflects on his Trans Chicanx identity and how his embodiment shapes his teaching and pedagogy. The author begins with a spoken word piece that captures his journey to his own trans-conocimiento. Then the author looks to the foundational work of Chicana/Latina Feminist pedagogies and transpedagogies to envision a trans jotería pedagogy that centers trans migrants—and trans women and people of color—that is grounded in disruption and vulnerability through the unsettling of borders and binaries tied to systems of power. In doing so, the author reflects on his trans jotería praxis in the classroom and through his podcast Anzaldúing It. The author concludes with looking to the tensions that arise when disruptions of systems of power are central to teaching and pedagogy and highlights the vulnerability necessary of both teacher and student to embark on consciousness raising and healing exchange.

Pose and HIV/AIDS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 615-624
Author(s):  
Laura Stamm
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
Trans Women ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

Abstract This article examines how the television series Pose (2018–) represents queer and trans people of color living with HIV/AIDS at the height of the crisis in 1987. While the series portrays an important part of transgender history, it also positions the AIDS crisis as something that is done and part of America's past. Despite the fact that rates of HIV infection remain at epidemic rates for trans women of color, Pose, like many other mainstream media representations, suggests that the AIDS crisis ended in 1995. The series brings trans women of color's experiences to a record number of viewers, but that representation comes with a certain cost—the cost of historicization.

Trans Studies and Resistance in an Academy Based on Masculinity Contest Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-420
Author(s):  
Travers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Trans Studies ◽  
Labor Pool ◽  
Trans Women

Abstract Trans studies is a burgeoning and global interdisciplinary field of scholarship. Although trans people in general continue to remain on the margins of the academy in Canada and the United States, some of the trans scholars who contribute to the field of trans studies are in continuing faculty (tenure-track and tenured) positions. Trans women in general and trans women and trans feminine people of color, in particular, however, are particularly underrepresented in this labor pool. The author brings together a theoretical pastiche consisting of a Black feminist analysis of patriarchy as a layered phenomenon, trans necropolitics, and a masculinity contest culture paradigm to trouble this limit to representation within trans studies in Canada and the United States.

The Black Travel Movement: A Catalyst for Social Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 004728752199354
Author(s):  
Alana Dillette ◽  
Stefanie Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Black People ◽  
Community Mobilization ◽  
Resource Mobilization ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Consciousness Raising

In response to the underrepresentation of Black people in the travel sphere, Black travelers have created their presence in the market – authentically representing and providing opportunities for Black travelers. This group of Black travelers has taken on the collective name of the Black Travel Movement (BTM). Informed by social movement and critical race theory, nine interviews were conducted to better understand what influences BTM leaders in their quest for social change. Three emergent themes resulted: Catalysts Lead to Self-Efficacy, Awareness Leads to Consciousness Raising, and Community Activation Leads to Resource Mobilization. As evident from our interviews with BTM leaders, discrimination, bias, racism, and inequities are ubiquitous and continue to create inhospitable and toxic touristic experiences and landscapes for Black and people of color. However, results reveal a cyclical model that highlights hope through activism and community mobilization.

We Are Camily

Camming ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 134-152
Author(s):  
Angela Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Exclusionary Practices ◽  
Community Norms ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Web Forums ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Trans Women

A vibrant community of webcam performers has developed in tandem with the camming industry. The “camily,” as many performers refer to it, is a loosely tied network of performers who provide one another with various forms of support and friendship. Cam models use web forums, social media, and conferences and events to interact with one another in a loosely structured social network that has been designed by cam performers for cam performers. Those who find community can build social capital and acquire benefits as a result. Models’ degrees of embeddedness in the camily influence their ability to mobilize social capital within the camming industry. This chapter also examines exclusionary practices within the community. Community norms and powerful gatekeepers restrict access to social capital. The boundaries some camgirls create exclude trans women, cis men, and low-wage part-time performers, who are disproportionally people of color and non-English-speaking people. This systematic exclusion from the community can adversely affect economic outcomes.

An ethnopolitical approach to working with people of color.

2000 ◽  
Vol 55 (11) ◽  
pp. 1319-1325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian Comas-Díaz
Keyword(s):  
People Of Color

Consciousness-Raising About Consciousness

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 579-580
Author(s):  
Kenneth Kotovsky
Keyword(s):  
Consciousness Raising
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