Tiffany Jones

Elizabeth Smith

Roz Ward

Jennifer Dixon

Anne Mitchell

Lynne Hillier

Mental Health and Well-Being of Gender Diverse and Transgender Young People in Australia

From Blues to Rainbows

Analysis of education policy often follows a particular orientation, such as conservative or neo-liberal. Yet, readers are often left to wonder the true meaning and conceptual framing behind these orientations. Without this knowledge, the policy analysis lacks true rigor, its value is diminished as the results may prove difficult to reproduce. Understanding Education Policy provides an overarching framework of four key orientations that lie beneath much policy analysis, yet are rarely used with accuracy: conservative, liberal, critical and post-modern. It details each orientation's application to policy making, implementation and overall impact. The book also argues the value of analysing a policy’s orientation to improve the clarity of its analysis and allow broader trends across the education policy field to emerge. The book offers practical examples, key vocabulary and reflection activities which give equitable, yet critical consideration to all education orientations. This allows readers to see the benefits and disadvantages of each perspective and discover their own biases. This introduction to education policy analysis offers theoretically broad, highly practical coverage. It is adaptable to many kinds of policy analysis areas and will appeal to a wide range of readers with an interest in education policy, from students conducting specific research to policy makers looking for a deeper way to re-think their work.

The ‘Four Education Orientations’ Framework

Understanding Education Policy

Gail Hawkes

Andrea del Pozo de Bolger

Tinashe Dune

Amy Lykins

This Briefs is the first national study on female-to-male (FtM) transgender people’s experiences in Australia. It describes an extensive study that fills the current gap in Australian research on the specific experiences and beliefs about transition for contemporary Australian FtM transgender people. Following an overview of current literature on the various aspects of and approaches to transgender issues, this briefs describes in detail the design, participants and findings of the study. The Briefs offers useful statistics and stories related to participants' identities, education, health, sexual and social lives. It ends with recommendations to all those working in the various offices and institutions that FtM transgender people encounter in their everyday life, and represents and invaluable resource for researchers, service providers and gender diverse communities alike.

A National Study

Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia

Yvette Taylor

Leanne Coll

Lisa van Leent

This book showcases and celebrates the work of Gender and Sexuality Education scholars in order to challenge current negative interpretations of the field, and work towards new shared visions. The editors and contributors call for, affirm and offer examples of pathways towards exciting and dynamic collaborative work in Gender and Sexuality in Education. In doing so, they also acknowledge the various complexities of this field, and detail the context-specific barriers faced by academics and activists. Drawing upon a range of global case studies, this book sets out information and advice from cross-sector experts to set an agenda of mutual supportiveness, and to smooth pathways for future collaboration. Above all, this book is a call to action to uplift the field – and each other – in challenging environments. This ground-breaking book will be of interest and value to scholars of Gender and Sexuality Education research.

Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research

Yves Rees

Sam Elkin

In this midyear 2021 edition of Bent Street, guest editors Sam Elkin and Yves Rees from the Spilling the T Collective bring a special trans and gender diverse community focus: essays, poetry, polemic, memoir, fiction, and imagery that explores and celebrates gender diversity. In this edition, trans creatives bring an acute understanding of how embodied subjects construct and perform gendered selves - an understanding that though sometimes borne of pain and trauma, and sometimes met in joyful euphoria - creates memorable art ... foregrounding nuances often eluding the cis gaze. A distinctive trans lens dissecting how gender works - for all people, cis and trans - shines through in this special issue.

Soft Borders, Hard Edges

Bent Street 5.1

Ava Jordan

Lea ist allein. Sie weiß nicht, was aus Jax geworden ist, nachdem sie untertauchen musste. Inzwischen lebt sie in Las Vegas und arbeitet in einer Autowerkstatt. Doch die Vergangenheit holt sie schneller ein, als Lea gedacht hat. Plötzlich soll sie Entscheidungen treffen, die nicht nur über ihre Zukunft bestimmen, sondern auch darüber, ob sie noch einmal glücklich werden darf ... "Schmerz" ist der dritte Teil und Abschluss der Obsessed-Trilogie. Obsessed 1 - Verführung Obsessed 2 - Hingabe Obsessed 3 - Schmerz

Schmerz

Lea will es tun. Sie wird ihren Bruder und ihren Vater an das FBI ausliefern und danach mit Jax untertauchen. Doch sie zögert, denn sie fürchtet um das Leben von Juno, der Schwester ihrer Freundin Chrissa. Jetzt muss Lea sich entscheiden - für die Familie oder für Jax, der seinerseits große Risiken auf sich nimmt. Vom FBI im Stich gelassen, bleibt ihnen wieder nur eine Möglichkeit: sie müssen weglaufen, so schnell sie können ... Obsessed - Hingabe ist Teil 2 einer Trilogie. Folgende Bände sind noch in Vorbereitung: Obsessed - Schmerz (Juni 2016) Bereits erhältlich ist Verführung (Obsessed 1), der Auftakt zur Trilogie.

Obsessed 2

Hingabe

Leas Leben als Kellnerin in Brooklyn scheint auf den ersten Blick eher langweilig, doch sie hat eine Vergangenheit, die sie sogar vor ihren Freunden und Kollegen verbirgt. Als sie eines Abends Jackson begegnet, scheint diese Vergangenheit sie einzuholen. Sie kann nur erahnen, wie gefährlich er für sie ist. Wie gefährlich es ist, etwas für ihn zu empfinden ... Doch dann offenbart sich ihr, dass alles noch viel schlimmer ist. Wie kann sie den Feind lieben? Den Mann, der für sie den Untergang bedeutet? Lea rennt um ihr Leben - und fürchtet nichts mehr, als Jackson für immer zu verlieren. Obsessed - Verführung ist Teil 1 der Trilogie. Obsessed - Hingabe Obsessed - Schmerz

Obsessed 1

Verführung

Bent Street is an annual publication that gathers essays, fiction, poetry, artwork, reflections, letters, blog posts, interviews, and rants, to bring you 'The Year in Queer'. Find us anytime at: http://bentstreet.net Bent Street 2 covers aspects of 2018, including the afterglow of the passing into law of same-sex marriage; the ongoing struggle for rights and recognition; reflections on the past; as well as presenting the queer imagination as it follows its own lights, digressions, yearnings, and strange associations. Guy James Whitworth, Steve RE Pereira, Jamie James, Quinn Eades, Brigitte Lewis, Jeff Herd, Adrienne Kisner, Marcus O'Donnell, Jennifer Power, Henry Von Doussa, Dean Smith, Alison Thorne, Rebecca Ryall, Craig Middleton, Nikki Sullivan, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Dennis Altman, Janet Rice, Geoff Allshorn, Martin Roberts, Roz Bellamy, Mandy Henningham, Tiffany Jones, Michael Bernard Kelly, Aurea Kochanowski, René Bennett, Peter Mitchell, Tina Healy, Madison Griffiths, Andy Murdoch, Holly Zwalf, Lian Low, James May, Jean Taylor, Adrienne Kisner

Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas - 2018/2019

Bent Street 2

This book is based on a comparative study from 2018, of four different approaches to education, according to 2,500 Australians’ experiences of them, on a range of topics. It shows that whilst the critical approach has strong research-based support across the board, sometimes a liberal, conservative or post-modern approach may have some merit for certain outcomes. This is a book about challenging our biases and calling on ourselves to aim higher for education, than what our own pre-conceived ideas might allow. What and who is valued in education, and the social roles and identity messages learned, differ wildly from school to school. Education is most impacted by the orientation of education dominant in that context – whether conservative, liberal, critical or post-modern. These terms are often used with little practical data on the real-life schooling they entail. Who learns what in which approach? Who learns best with which approach, on which topic and why? This book provides this previously missing information. It offers holistic, detailed descriptions of conservative, liberal, critical and post-modern approaches to education broadly. It provides statistics and stories from real students on how the four approaches work practically in schools in relation to: age, gender, sexuality, social class, race, news-media, popular culture and technology. Chapters offer background information to the four perspectives, data from student participants, tutorial questions and activities, and suggestions for further reading.

Voices of Experience

A Student-centred Sociology of Australian Education

Bent Street 4.1 - Love from a Distance shines a light on the role of technologies in shaping human intimacy within the broader frame of COVID-19 and lockdown. Writers, academics, artists and poets reflect on the role that technologies, old and new, play in mediating human intimacy and shaping queer culture. Bent Street 4.1 is edited by Jennifer Power, Henry von Doussa and Timothy W. Jones from La Trobe University, and produced in association with The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society and La Trobe University Transforming Human Societies Research Focus Area.

Love from a Distance

Bent Street 4.1

Bent Street 4.2: Kiss My Apocalypse Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing and Ideas Bent Street is a biannual publication that gathers essays, fiction, poetry, artwork, reflections, and analysis to bring you 'The Year in Queer'

Kiss My Apocalypse

Bent Street 4.2

Morgan Carpenter

Bonnie Hart

Sex is complex. Humans are simultaneously more similar in their sex development, and more diverse, than is commonly appreciated or understood. Females and males are not made of wildly different ingredients. The potential to have intersex variations-to be born with atypical sex characteristics-exists for all humans in the first few weeks of their prenatal development. 1.7% of people actually go on to be born intersex. However, most of us know little about intersex variations. This is only partly due to their occasional invisibility. Intersex people have historically faced deep social stigma-the assumption that they were simply bizarre aberrations from the human norm. Furthermore, intersex infants have been widely subjected to systematic institutional mistreatment, particularly within medical settings. Finally, some people with intersex variations have simply tried to integrate themselves unnoticed into the socially accepted categories of male and female. Drawing on stories and statistics from the first national study of intersex the book argues for a distinct 'Intersex Studies' framework to address intersex issues and identity-foregrounding people with intersex variations' own goals, perspectives and experiences. Collected in 2015 and arranged in thematic chapters, the data presented here on 272 individuals gives a penetrating account of historically and socially obscured experience. This book is an important and long-overdue contribution to our understanding of human sexuality and a must-read for people with intersex variations, health practitioners, psychologists, advocacy groups, students, and anybody interested in knowing more about our diverse human make-up.

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