Literacy of Necessity: Graduate Student Survival Knowledge in Hostile Institutional Climates

• In Event: The Ethics of Strategic Framing in Queer/Trans* Research: Protection, Access, and Transformation

Abstract

This paper introduces the concept of “literacy of necessity”—the embodied knowledge and various applied skills that marginalized researchers develop for survival in hostile institutional environments—and examines how graduate students and early-career scholars navigate differential precarity in queer/trans educational research.

Author

• Em Bowen, University of Arizona