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Transporting in Place: Locating Trans Care in Atlanta

Yost, Arin
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This thesis explores the relationship between access to places of trans care and flourishing in trans adults in Atlanta, Georgia in 2022. Building on feminist care geographies and trans studies, I engaged trans adults in Atlanta through participant observation and in-depth interviews to understand where and how trans care surfaces in the region. By attending trans-centered events, I observed trans care in a variety of settings. After these events, I interviewed attendees and organizers to explore gendered embodiment and relationships across differing spaces. By combining this in-depth, place-based research with theoretical concerns of ethics, symbolism, and affinities, this project explores the potential of trans care networks to enable flourishing in Atlanta. I contend that a t4t (trans for trans) ethic produces expansive opportunities for trans embodiment and affinities and is practiced through a variety of placemaking endeavors that create impermanent yet long-lasting infrastructures of care.

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2023-05-04
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Trans care, T4t, Placemaking, Case study, Atlanta, Care ethics
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Yost, Arin. Transporting in Place: Locating Trans Care in Atlanta. May 2023, Georgia State University. https://doi.org/10.57709/35208672.
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2025-04-20
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