Affirming Marginalized Identities

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Is a project dedicated to the exploration of how marginalized identities are formed and re-enforced through online identity groups. The population that I will examine for this project is the trans community.

[edit] Initial Thoughts, Motivations

In her book Can We Talk About Race Beverly Daniel Tatum discusses the ways in which to create a learning environment that truly addresses the needs of a multi-cultural classroom. One of the tenants of her theory is to affirm the cultural identities of each of the students in the classroom, by teaching from a space of multi-culturalist pluralism. This idea of affirming identities informs my project, which will expand the scope of the concept beyond the classroom to a larger society. The specific locations that I will look to for identity affirmation will be virtual spaces of online identity groups, and the ways and means they employ to create an online identity.

Affirming Marginalized Identities Annotated Bibliography
Affirming Trans Identity Online
Affirming Marginalized Identities Gallery
Lucas A. Cuéllar