“Just Go In Looking Good”: The Resilience, Resistance, and Kinship-Building of Trans* College Students | Zendy

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“Just Go In Looking Good”: The Resilience, Resistance, and Kinship-Building of Trans* College Students

Author(s) -

Z Nicolazzo

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of college student development

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055

H-Index - 76

eISSN - 1543-3382

pISSN - 0897-5264

DOI - 10.1353/csd.2016.0057

Subject(s) - kinship , transgender , ethnography , resistance (ecology) , transgender women , sociology , psychological resilience , gender studies , psychology , social psychology , pedagogy , anthropology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , ecology , syphilis , men who have sex with men , family medicine , biology

This article explores the strategies transgender college students use to navigate gender-dichotomous collegiate environments. Using a critical collaborative ethnographic methodology (Bhattacharya, 2008), this 18-month ethnographic study alongside 9 transgender students elucidated how gender operates as a discourse to regulate the collegiate life as well as the various spaces through which the participants traversed. Study data also highlight the pervasive intersections of participants’ various social identities as well as speak to the importance of developing kinship networks among transgender students as a strategy to remain resilient and successful in college.

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