Trans-Queering the Repair Train: Performing Research as Remedy

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium of five intersecting performances addresses the conference theme by demonstrating kinship in this collaborative, performance cohort, through the justice work of creative theories-in-action. Dualist ontologies frame experience in terms of mutually exclusive pairs (e.g., mind/body, male/female, nature/culture), often a pervasive trait of education research and of public discourse at large. Intersectional feminist theory, queer theory, performance studies, and critical race theory have long challenged these assumptions, and now transgender theory and scholarship provide an opportunity to go further. This panel takes up that challenge, demonstrating through creative methods how educational equity and repair demands abandoning outmoded us/them separations.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education

Chair

• Daniel X. Harris, RMIT University

Papers

• “But When I Put the Tongue On …” : Attuning to Trans*versal Assemblages with a Visual Arts-Praxis - EJ Renold, Cardiff University

• Homonostalgia: Queering the archive through speculative composition - Presenter One, Presenter; Presenter Two, Presenter

• Queering the Crip Time of Not-Becoming Fluent in Phonics: A Close Reading of Drawn Spelling Lists - Laura Trafi-Prats, Manchester Metropolitan University

• Drawing Utopia: Trans Youth, Comics, and the Queerness of World-Making - LJ Slovin, University of Victoria

• A Remedy of Hap: What Education Can Learn from Transgender Scholarship - Daniel X. Harris, RMIT University