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Trans* in the Neoliberal University: Students’ Relationship with Georgia State University and its LGBTQ+ Support Structures

Townsend, Elizabeth
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This ethnography shows how trans* Georgia State University (GSU) undergraduate students navigate the university, interact with university-created LGBTQ+ support structures, and how university-created LGBTQ+ support structures engaged with them. Trans* students find it difficult to navigate GSU because so much of the university’s bureaucratic structures involve classifying people into gender categories. Through interviews, autoethnography, and participant observation, trans* students’ negotiation of that pressure is illuminated and interrogated in this work. Ultimately, queer students find GSU-created and sponsored organizations lacking in genuine support but take the pieces they need and build the rest on their own.

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2024-08-07
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Queer, Neoliberalism, Trans*, Higher Education
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Townsend, Elizabeth. 2024. "Trans* in the Neoliberal University: Students� Relationship with Georgia State University and its LGBTQ+ Support Structures." Georgia State University. https://doi.org/10.57709/37421697
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2024-07-30
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