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
Son Vivienne is chief operating officer at Transgender Victoria, a not-for-profit community-led organization advocating for gender-diverse wellbeing and peer-support.
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?
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.
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
