Queering Safe Spaces : Being Brave beyond Binaries - Son Vivienne

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Queering Safe Spaces

Being Brave beyond Binaries

By: Son Vivienne

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Hardcover | 21 February 2023

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274 Pages

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22.5 x 14.5 x 3

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The Safety Trap: Why We Need Diverse and Brave Spaces explains how the histories and currency of safe spaces are determined by those with privilege and power; those who choose to invite us in or leave us out. Whether we encounter boundaries at national borders, bathrooms, or birth certificates, our personal safety and wellbeing is at stake. Gender-diverse and queer non-binary people, have bodies, brains, and hearts that challenge traditional ways of being male, female, gay, straight, Black, white, good, and bad. These practitionersâ"at the interfaces of government policy, architecture, queer art curation, group work, sex work, and tattooingâ"explore cancel culture and free speech, considering what it takes to be brave. In our current times of global conflict and binary oppositions, they address the urgent need for accessible and inclusive spaces everywhere. To listen and speak across the ideological voids that divide us, we must understand the differences that underpin our feelings of safety and discomfort.

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This is a complex and beautifully researched book, grounded in community, cultural, activist, and creative work. In the weaving of interviews, anecdotes, histories, and autoethnographic reflections, Vivienne investigates how ideas of âsafe spaceâ play out in, with and through marginalized communities, often to negative effect. This vital and timely work asks what we might do, individually and collectively, to create âbrave spaces.â It argues that binary modes of thinking inhibit nuanced understandings of difference and offers a âhow-toâ section that addresses the practicalities of sustaining a trauma-informed model of working with groups. Vivienneâs nonbinary and neurodiverse approaches to reading and writing the politics of âsafetyâ and cancel culture presents a model for moving from the utopic naivety of âspace spacesâ to brave, trauma-informed and resilient spaces where we can turn our attention to what matters: action, activism, connection, and community. This book is a love letter, a dreamscape, and a call to each otherâs arms.
â" Quinn Eades, La Trobe University

This book is a lifeline to those who are bearing the brunt of progress in identity politics. It challenges all of us to unpack and accept the answers to the politically charged question: what is a safe space?
â" Todd Fernando, Victorian Commissioner for LGBTIQ+ Communities

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