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Queering Safe Spaces

Being Brave beyond Binaries

Son Vivienne

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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Lexington Books
Pages: 276 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-7936-1883-2 • Hardback • February 2023 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-7936-1884-9 • eBook • February 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Series: Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
Subjects: Psychology / Social Psychology, Social Science / Gender Studies, Social Science / LGBT Studies / Transgender Studies, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations

Son Vivienne is chief executive officer at Transgender Victoria, a community-led organization advocating for gender-diverse well-being.

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One: Safe Spaces

Chapter 1: A Framework for Interpretation

Chapter 2: Histories of Safe Spaces

Chapter 3: The Safety Trap

Chapter 4: Bodies at Borders: Breaching the Binary

Part Two: Safe Enough in Practice

Chapter 5: Devising ‘Safe Enough’

Chapter 6: Intimate Encounters

Chapter 7: Mediated Storytelling

Part Three: Safety, Security and Risk

Chapter 8: Beneath the Surface—Embodiment and Passing

Chapter 9: Queering the Binaries

Chapter 10: How to be Brave (or Triggers to Watch Out For)

References

About the Authors

This is a complex and beautifully researched book, grounded in community, cultural, activist, and creative work. In the weaving of interviews, anecdotes, histories, and autoethnographic reflections, Vivienne investigates how ideas of ‘safe space’ play out in, with and through marginalized communities, often to negative effect. This vital and timely work asks what we might do, individually and collectively, to create ‘brave spaces.’ It argues that binary modes of thinking inhibit nuanced understandings of difference and offers a ‘how-to’ section that addresses the practicalities of sustaining a trauma-informed model of working with groups. Vivienne’s nonbinary and neurodiverse approaches to reading and writing the politics of ‘safety’ and cancel culture presents a model for moving from the utopic naivety of ‘space spaces’ to brave, trauma-informed and resilient spaces where we can turn our attention to what matters: action, activism, connection, and community. This book is a love letter, a dreamscape, and a call to each other’s arms.


— Quinn Eades, La Trobe University


This book is a lifeline to those who are bearing the brunt of progress in identity politics. It challenges all of us to unpack and accept the answers to the politically charged question: what is a safe space?


— Todd Fernando, Victorian Commissioner for LGBTIQ+ Communities


Queering Safe Spaces

Being Brave beyond Binaries

Cover Image
Hardback
eBook
Summary
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.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 276 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-7936-1883-2 • Hardback • February 2023 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
    978-1-7936-1884-9 • eBook • February 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Series: Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
    Subjects: Psychology / Social Psychology, Social Science / Gender Studies, Social Science / LGBT Studies / Transgender Studies, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
Author
Author
  • Son Vivienne is chief executive officer at Transgender Victoria, a community-led organization advocating for gender-diverse well-being.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • List of Figures

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    Part One: Safe Spaces

    Chapter 1: A Framework for Interpretation

    Chapter 2: Histories of Safe Spaces

    Chapter 3: The Safety Trap

    Chapter 4: Bodies at Borders: Breaching the Binary

    Part Two: Safe Enough in Practice

    Chapter 5: Devising ‘Safe Enough’

    Chapter 6: Intimate Encounters

    Chapter 7: Mediated Storytelling

    Part Three: Safety, Security and Risk

    Chapter 8: Beneath the Surface—Embodiment and Passing

    Chapter 9: Queering the Binaries

    Chapter 10: How to be Brave (or Triggers to Watch Out For)

    References

    About the Authors

Reviews
Reviews
  • This is a complex and beautifully researched book, grounded in community, cultural, activist, and creative work. In the weaving of interviews, anecdotes, histories, and autoethnographic reflections, Vivienne investigates how ideas of ‘safe space’ play out in, with and through marginalized communities, often to negative effect. This vital and timely work asks what we might do, individually and collectively, to create ‘brave spaces.’ It argues that binary modes of thinking inhibit nuanced understandings of difference and offers a ‘how-to’ section that addresses the practicalities of sustaining a trauma-informed model of working with groups. Vivienne’s nonbinary and neurodiverse approaches to reading and writing the politics of ‘safety’ and cancel culture presents a model for moving from the utopic naivety of ‘space spaces’ to brave, trauma-informed and resilient spaces where we can turn our attention to what matters: action, activism, connection, and community. This book is a love letter, a dreamscape, and a call to each other’s arms.


    — Quinn Eades, La Trobe University


    This book is a lifeline to those who are bearing the brunt of progress in identity politics. It challenges all of us to unpack and accept the answers to the politically charged question: what is a safe space?


    — Todd Fernando, Victorian Commissioner for LGBTIQ+ Communities


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