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Trans Pirates for Justice
Gender and Sexual Minority Youth Resist Structural Violence
From: Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth
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Topics in this chapter include the authors’ experiences of challenging structural violence through art while working with trans youth, as wel as policy recommendations and ideas for future work and study.
Contributors
Mina Harker
Mina Harker is a writer/artist and trans girl living in Calgary.
Alex Werier
Alex Werier is completing a master’s degree in anthropology at Simon Fraser University. Her thesis examines gender, voice and sound, focusing on the ways in which trans women understand, use or alter their voices.
Cathryn Rodrigues
Cathryn Rodrigues earned a bachelor’s of health sciences from the University of Calgary. She works as a research assistant for the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and on projects involving health promotion, community capacity building, structural violence and homelessness.
Wilfreda E. Thurston
Wilfreda E. Thurston is a professor emerita in the Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary. She worked in the social service sector, including government services, a women’s centre and a shelter for women. Feminist analysis and advocacy for women’s health and gender equality in medicine and society generally have shaped her career. Her research has included the role of the public health sector in prevention of violence against girls and women, especially those marginalized by racialization.
