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ERIC Number: EJ1268581
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 20
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1071-4413
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Drawing Queer and Trans Kinship with Children: Affect, Cohabitation, and Reciprocal Care
Dyer, Hannah; Sinclair-Palm, Julia; Yeo, Miranda
Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, v42 n4 p257-276 2020
Children with LGBTQ + parents often have to navigate a complex and shifting set of circumstances related to heteronormativity, transphobia, and anxieties about the erosion of the "natural" family. The children of these families become pedagogs, teaching others about the dynamics of gender and sexuality in their kinship structures, and are often called upon as examples of either the normalcy of LGBTQ + subjectivity or the embodiment of immorality related to the queering of family. In an effort to center the experiences of these children, in this article the authors draw from qualitative interviews and arts-based research conducted with 30 children from Ontario, Canada, between the ages of 6 and 12, who each have at least one LGBTQ + parent. The children were asked to draw a portrait of their family and to respond to semi-structured interview questions about their kinship structures. The mingling of verbal responses to questions posed by researchers, the elicitation of family portraits, felt and observed affective dispositions, and the authors' own exposure to theories of child development, have helped to archive and understand the insights shared by the children. From them, and through the process of qualitative research, the authors learned that LGBTQ + family is a constitutive relationality that provides care and meaning in their lives.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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