This Open Access book uses the concept of ‘euphoria’ to investigate when, why and how marginal gender, sex and sexuality groups have positive experiences of their diverse variations even within repressive and disordering contexts. Drawing on data from multiple online surveys including a study of 2,407 LGBTQ+ people and a study of 272 people with intersex variations, it names and offers a new ecological framework for understanding participants’ influences on and barriers to euphorias, asserting the subversive possibilities of being euphorically queer, as opposed to euphoric and queer. The author argues that it is the particularities of negative internal, socio-cultural and institutional contexts for a marginal group or groups that contributes towards the possibilities that shape their potential euphoric feelings and experiences. Ultimately, she calls for a more expansive focus in gender and sexuality studies to show the complex effects of dysphoria and repression on the possibilities of pleasure and joy. This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender, Sexuality and Queer Studies.
The authors, all nine of them, have written a fable. Just as in Aesop's, each of the animals have characteristics that are all too human. Each student wrote a section of the book and all collaborated on the story. The students laid out the plot in storyboards showing their animals with what many call disabilities. They then created and drew their characters. After stringing individual stories together, they added the "glue" of transitions and color. In your hands, you will find a delightful tale with joyful illustrations and a message. Each animal finds a way to fit in while appreciating differences in others. This class of fifth-graders began their work before Covid19 and continued over the next three months using Google Docs and Drive while connecting through Zoom meetings with their teacher, Tiffany Jones, and Nancy E. Randolph of Just Write Books. Overcoming technology and shelter-in-place challenges, these students have learned the lessons of resilience, perseverance, and creativity under stressful situations. Those lessons should serve them well in their future days. Read their book. You, your students, your children, your grandchildren, and just about anyone will enjoy this engaging read-aloud book.
This book addresses policy research on homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools. It covers quantitative and qualitative research into policy impacts for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex students. It draws on a large-scale Australian study of the impacts of different kinds of policy at the national, state, sector and school level. The study covers over 80 policies, interviews with key policy informants and survey data from 3,134 GLBTIQ students. Since new guidelines were released by UNESCO, homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools has become a key area of interest around the world. There has been much pressure on educational leadership to engage with these issues since the UN released international human rights legislation on sexual orientation and gender identity that have implications for student rights. The book presents statistically significant correlations between specific types of state and school level education policies that explicitly named homophobia/ GLBTIQ student issues, and lowered incidence of homophobic bullying, lowered risk of suicide and self-harm for these students. It includes stories from policy makers on how the policies came to be (through lawsuits, ministerial inquiries and political activism), right through to the stories of students themselves and how they individually felt the impacts of policies or policy lacks. International contexts of homophobic and transphobic bullying are discussed, as well as recent transnational work in this field. The book considers the different types of collaborations that can lead to further policy development, the transferability of the research and some of the benefits and problems with transnational policy adoptions.
The poetry in this book is a depiction of my life. Each poem is real and describes the trials and tribulations of a young lady growing up to be a women. Broken heart, success, friends and family are amongst the real life poems that can be found within.
This book introduces how I had to realign my mindset in order to make better decisions. What I had to do to overcome the negative thoughts that were build overtime by hurts, believing I wasn't good enough, making extremely poor decisions and living a defeated life.I am giving you a chance to realign your thinking pattern, see the positive in the negative and push through the circumstances and become the best you.
The summertime Anthology is a collection of illustrations and short stories from our annual summer writing contest that was built around the summertime theme. Inside, you'll find adventures with controlling the weather, summers on the farm, roadtrips with friends, and so much more!
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