Counter-Storytelling for Queer & Trans Epistemic Justice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium draws on queer and trans ways of knowing to invite an exploration of otherwise possibilities in educational research. Moving beyond the study of LGBTQ2S+ identities, this session explores using queer and trans knowledge(s) as an epistemic orientation for praxis-centered educational research. Panelists offer counter-storytelling as a method of epistemic resistance, troubling the insidious and perpetual ways epistemic violence can be upheld in educational contexts. Collectively, panelists invoke the fluidity and flexibility that frames the elasticity of queer and trans knowledge(s), presenting limitless, and often messy, possibilities for rethinking approaches to educational research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Queer Studies

Chair

• Qui Alexander, University of Toronto

Papers

• Gender physics: An autoethnographic essay - Jared Boland, University of Toronto - OISE

• Navigating Methodological Considerations through Queer and Trans* Epistemologies - Susanne Nyaga, University of Toronto - OISE

• Thinking Queerly with Educational Futurities - Madeleine Long Long, University of Toronto - OISE

• Building Our Capacities to Breathe Through Queer and Trans Epistemologies - Alexander Vesuna, University of Toronto - OISE

• The Traumatophilic Wound That Remains Is What Teaches: Carving a Queer Kinky Otherwise- Through Lorde and Michelangelo’s David - Maclean Frey, University of Toronto - OISE

Session Organizer

• Qui Alexander, University of Toronto

Discussant

• Loretta LeMaster, University of Toronto - OISE