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Publication Date: 2021-Mar
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Imagining a Trans* Epistemology: What Liberation Thinks Like in Postsecondary Education
Nicolazzo, Z.
Urban Education, v56 n3 p511-536 Mar 2021
Postsecondary institutions of education, similar to the broader society in which they are embedded, are steeped in and further trans* oppression. In addition, the knowledge produced at these institutions is inflected with trans* oppression, and continues to reify the notion that trans* lives and experiences are abject, abnormal, unintelligible, and otherwise impossible. In this article, I build from the work of Patton, Brayboy, Delgado Bernal, and Spade to propose a trans* epistemology. In doing so, I discuss how this new epistemological stance helps educators unlearn the gender binary illogic in which they collude, thereby (re)shaping education as liberatory.
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Epistemology, Gender Issues, Gender Bias, Postsecondary Education, Social Justice, Self Concept, Activism, Sense of Community, College Students, Urban Education
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Education Level: Postsecondary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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