Immediately after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, as the escalation grew into a war, then the war into a genocide, Israel and its Zionist allies invoked queer Palestinians to vindicate the genocide in Gaza using a largescale pinkwashing campaign. Being an Israeli colonial practice that queer Palestinians have constantly reframed in…
A master’s thesis in the field of translation studies about the way queerness exhibits in the different Finnish translations of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. The thesis is written in Finnish, and a 13-page English summary is included at the end of the document. This thesis is an examination of the queerness of Jo…
In this paper I identify a distinct form of epistemic injustice and oppression which I call ‘hermeneutical sabotage’. Hermeneutical sabotage occurs when dominantly situated knowers actively maintain or worsen the dominant hermeneutical resources for understanding the experiences or identities of marginalised groups. They do this through actively distorting the resistant hermeneutical resources developed by marginalised…
While transgender and non-binary identities are increasingly visible, too many Christians have either maintained a fearful silence, or have attacked ‘transgenderism’ as a threat to Christian faith and practice. More serious theological reflection is needed, not least of all in the Roman Catholic tradition. Moreover, the Catholic context presents particular challenges that are relevant beyond…
What can the killing of a transgender teen can teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity? The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brian McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press…
As transgender visibility has increased over the past decade, growing numbers of transgender youth are presenting at specialized clinics seeking care related to phenotypic gender transition. Despite the fact that the average age of referral is dropping, the developmental stage that most patients are in at the time of entry into medical care necessitates future…
Purpose: Transgender populations experience health inequities that underscore the importance of ensuring ac- cess to high quality care. We thematically summarize the health care experiences of transgender youth living in the southeast United States to identify potential barriers and facilitators to health care. Design and methods: Transgender youth recruited from community settings in an urban…
Language teaching and learning represents a site for identity (re)construction, mediated through the process oflanguage acquisition and use (Norton, 2013). As students develop linguistic abilities, they also develop a multilingual sense of self. In keeping with this view, the field has begun to advance pedagogies that engage with students as whole persons, encouraging them to…
The nature of the transsexual’s stigma is such that she can pass as a natural female with little difficulty if she chooses to. At the same time, transsexuals do not once and for all become women after their conversion operation. Their ambiguous gender implies at least a double identity: some of the feminized transsexual’s social…
This essential and informative text showcases a range of up-to-date approaches to the exciting and rapidly expanding area of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer psychologies. Out in Psychology places a strong emphasis on exploring the potential of qualitative and critical approaches and gives much-needed attention to often overlooked bisexual and trans psychological research.