Fighting for Trans* Kids: Academic Parent Activism in the 21st Century

Abstract

In this article we explore some of the affective and ethical dimensions that we have faced as parent academic-activists seeking to understand and undo some of the structural transphobia that currently exists in Canadian society. Informed by critical feminist, critical race and black feminist thought, trans* scholarship, queer theory, and anti-oppression analysis, we discuss how our academic-activism assumes complex configurations of privilege and vulnerability.

Keywords

• transgender
• children and youth
• autoethnography
• parental activism
• academic activism
• social action