Queering Safe Spaces: Being Brave beyond Binaries

Son Vivienne

doi:10.5771/9781793618849

Summary

Queering Safe Spaces explains how safe spaces are determined by those with privilege and power, those who choose to invite us in or leave us out. Whether we encounter boundaries at national borders, bathrooms or birth certificates, our personal safety, and well-being are at stake. Gender-diverse and queer non-binary people have bodies, brains, and hearts that challenge traditional ways of being male, female, gay, straight, Black, white, good, and bad. These practitioners—at the interfaces of policy, architecture, art curation, group work, sex work, and tattooing—explore cancel culture and free speech, considering what it takes to be brave. In these times of global conflict and binary oppositions, there is urgent need for accessible and inclusive spaces everywhere. To listen and speak across the ideological voids that divide us, we must understand the differences that underpin our feelings of safety and discomfort.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-1883-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-1884-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 246
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. 1. Note No access
4. Acknowledgements No access
1. 1. Methodology No access
  2. Who This Book is For and How to Use It No access
2. 1. 1. Psychological Safety No access
    2. Cultural Safety No access
  2. 1. Exclusive Spaces No access
    2. Containing (Those Who Count) No access
  3. Note No access
3. 1. 1. Lampooning Safety: ‘Snowflakes’ in Popular Culture No access
  2. 1. Trigger Warnings and Consent No access
    2. Paradoxes in Comfort and Critical Thinking No access
  3. 1. Microaggressions and Tone Policing No access
    2. Lateral Violence No access
    3. Emotional Labour No access
    4. Cancel Culture, No Platforming, Calling-Out No access
  4. 1. Conflict, Harm, Abuse No access
    2. Guaranteeing Safety No access
    3. Perpetuating Harm: A Marriage Act Case Study No access
    4. Breaking the Cycle: Moving from ‘Safe’ to ‘Brave’ No access
4. 1. Being Seen: Classified No access
  2. Searching: Gender Odyssey to a Transgender Archive No access
  3. Seeing: Non-binary, Middle-aged, White, Parent No access
  4. Surveillance: Being Watched and Practicing Passing No access
  5. Self-coding: Choosing our Fit No access
1. 1. Constructing Pride No access
  2. Architectures of Safety No access
  3. Governance, for and with LGBTQI+ Communities No access
  4. Organizing Careful Rebellion No access
  5. Regarding Queer – in Art and Performance No access
2. Infographics and Images No access
3. 1. Holding the Line: Crisis Interventions No access
  2. Lubricating Consent: Intimacy Parties No access
  3. Hooking Up and Navigating Consent No access
  4. Reframing Scars: Tattooing Trauma No access
  5. Note No access
4. 1. 1. Journeys of Heartache and Hope No access
    2. Rainbow Family Tree No access
  2. 1. Stories Beyond Gender No access
    2. Code-switching Identities No access
  3. Safe To Selfie: De-Colonizing Bathrooms for Gender-Diverse People of All Nations No access
  4. Mediated Moral Panic on ‘They Day’ No access
1. 1. 1. Searching for Self in Safety No access
    2. Facilitating ‘Safe Enough’ To Be Seen No access
    3. Surveillance and Sousveillance No access
    4. Code-Switching for Personal Safety No access
2. 1. Representation, Lived Experience and Deference No access
  2. Wired for Trauma No access
  3. COVID-19: Closing Borders, Catalysing Trauma No access
  4. Understanding Power, Rank and Privilege No access
  5. Community Accountability and Transformative Justice No access
  6. Dadirri and Deep Listening No access
  7. Deep Democracy and Process-Oriented Facilitation No access
3. 1. 1. Framing and Agreements No access
  2. 1. Trouble No access
    2. Repair No access
  3. After No access
  4. Resting in an Open Palm No access
References No access Pages 231 - 238
Index No access Pages 239 - 244
About the Author No access Pages 245 - 246