Webinar on Contemporary Issues in Queer Research: Ksenija Joksimović
Zoom
Experiences of Resilience of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Social Justice Activists
Ksenija Joksimović, PhD researcher and activist
The second in a series of five webinars the School of Education will present this spring semester on Contemporary Issues in Queer Research Transnationally.
The presentation draws from the current Ph.D. research on Resilience Experiences of Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Social Justice Activists working in seven European countries in trans-specific community organisations, or broader LGBTQI organisations, leading trans-specific programmes and projects. The critical phenomenological research is grounded in social justice oriented inquiry, and feminist theories (queer theory and intersectionality theory). The presentation discusses the need for a reconceptualization of resilience which is often understood in psychology in an individualistic way, as an individual capacity to ‘’bounce-back’’ to the previous state of functioning after experiencing life stressors, and atrocities. The research presents a socio-ecological approach to resilience of TGNC people and communities. This reconceptualization is understood from the perspective of contribution to the reparation of epistemic injustice that TGNC people are exposed to in human sciences, taking into account systemic and structural barriers to trans resilience, as well as the challenges to the work of trans activists coming within the feminist and LGBTQI movements. The research adopts an understanding of gender identity from the perspective of queer theory with an intersectional lens, highlighting the heterogeneous nature of the transgender community, which is often overlooked in the research in human sciences, and /or treated as a homogenous whole. The research aims at redesigning and/or improving existing models and/or practices of self-care and community care for LGBTQI activists and specifically trans communities.
About the presenter
Ksenija Joksimovic is a PhD researcher in the last year of a PhD programme in Human Sciences at the University of Verona, Italy, and a visiting PhD student at the Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender and Centre of Resilience for Social Justice, at the University of Brighton, UK. Ksenija was involved in queer activism at the international level, as a former Co-Chair of IGLYO-International LGBTQI Youth and Student Organization, as well as in grassroots activism in Serbia, through an activist group ''Youth Forum for Gender Equality'' mainly using theatre of the oppressed methodology in their non-formal educational work.
Jón Ingvar Kjaran, professor at the School of Education and queer research activist is the coordinator and facilitator of the series.
The webinar will be held via Zoom:
https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/62792229043?pwd=bTVrZnNmdWNUZnd3dWhRTDBPNEJ5Zz09
Meeting ID: 627 9222 9043
Passcode: 134161
One tap mobile
+16699006833,,62792229043# US (San Jose)
+12532158782,,62792229043# US (Tacoma)
Dial by your location
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)
+44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom
+44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom
+44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom
+44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom
+44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom
+44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom
+44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom
+1 778 907 2071 Canada
+1 204 272 7920 Canada
+1 438 809 7799 Canada
+1 587 328 1099 Canada
+1 647 374 4685 Canada
+1 647 558 0588 Canada
+7 499 951 6379 Russia
+7 499 951 6380 Russia
+7 812 426 8988 Russia
+7 495 283 9788 Russia
Meeting ID: 627 9222 9043
Find your local number: https://eu01web.zoom.us/u/cdAMlvVZml
Join by SIP
62792229043@109.105.112.236
62792229043@109.105.112.235
Join by H.323
109.105.112.236
109.105.112.235
Meeting ID: 627 9222 9043
Passcode: 134161
Experiences of Resilience of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Social Justice ActivistsKsenija Joksimović, PhD researcher and activistThe second in a series of five webinars the School of Education will present this spring semester on Contemporary Issues in Queer Research Transnationally.
