Trans youth, science and art: creating (trans) gendered space

Rooke, Alison. 2010. Trans youth, science and art: creating (trans) gendered space. Gender, Place and Culture, 17(5), pp. 655-672. ISSN 0966-369X [Article]

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This article is based on empirical research which was undertaken as part of the Sci:dentity project funded by the Wellcome Trust. Sci:dentity was a year-long participatory arts project which ran between March 2006 and March 2007. The project offered 18 young transgendered and transsexual people, aged between 14 and 22, an opportunity to come together to explore the science of sex and gender through art. This article focuses on four creative workshops which ran over two months, being the ‘creative engagement’ phase of the project. It offers an analysis of the transgendered space created which was constituted through the logics of recognition, creativity and pedagogy. Following this, the article explores the ways in which these transgendered and transsexual young people navigate gendered practices, and the gendered spaces these practices constitute, in their everyday lives shaped by gendered and sexual normativities. It goes on to consider the significance of trans virtual and physical cultural spaces for the development of trans young peoples' ontological security and their navigations and negotiations of a gendered social world.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2010.503124

Keywords:

gender; transgender; transsexual; youth; arts; participatory

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Dates:

DateEvent
October 2010Published

Item ID:

5613

Date Deposited:

06 Jun 2011 12:16

Last Modified:

29 Apr 2020 15:30

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/5613

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