Alexandre Baril
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View article: “We're still alive, much to everyone's surprise”: The experience of trans older adults living with dementia in an ageist, cisgenderist, and cogniticist society
“We're still alive, much to everyone's surprise”: The experience of trans older adults living with dementia in an ageist, cisgenderist, and cogniticist society Open
Trans and non-binary older adults living with dementia experience forms of marginalization, pathologization, and discrimination embedded in epistemic violence that leads them to be mistreated and dismissed as knowledgeable subjects. Based …
View article: “We Have to Advocate so Hard for Ourselves and Our People”: Caring for a Trans or Non-Binary Older Adult with Dementia
“We Have to Advocate so Hard for Ourselves and Our People”: Caring for a Trans or Non-Binary Older Adult with Dementia Open
This article reports on empirical findings from a Canadian study examining the experiences of carers who support a trans or non-binary person with dementia. Using a trans-affirmative, critical disability, anti-ageist, and intersectional ap…
View article: A nuanced look into youth journeys of gender transition and detransition
A nuanced look into youth journeys of gender transition and detransition Open
Some media have suggested that many youths who have previously completed a gender transition are “detransitioning”. Their experience is often framed around the idea of regrets but rare are the articles that provide a nuanced examination of…
View article: Blogging to Counter Epistemic Injustice: Trans disabled digital micro-resistance
Blogging to Counter Epistemic Injustice: Trans disabled digital micro-resistance Open
As part of a larger research project on the intersections between transness, disability, cisgenderism (also called transphobia), and ableism/sanism, this article presents the results of a three-month netnography of blog posts made between …
View article: Digging beneath the Surface: When Disability Meets Gender Identity
Digging beneath the Surface: When Disability Meets Gender Identity Open
This article presents the results of a community-based participatory action-research conducted in the province of Quebec with 54 trans youth (15-25 years old). It describes the difficult reality faced by youth who are both trans and …
View article: Research Ethics with Gender and Sexually Diverse Persons
Research Ethics with Gender and Sexually Diverse Persons Open
Identifying and developing inclusive policy and practice responses to health and social inequities in gender and sexually diverse persons require inclusive research ethics and methods in order to develop sound data. This article articulate…
View article: Suicidism: A new theoretical framework to conceptualize suicide from an anti-oppressive perspective
Suicidism: A new theoretical framework to conceptualize suicide from an anti-oppressive perspective Open
Anchored in queer and crip perspectives, this essay proposes the neologism "suicidism" as a new theoretical framework to conceptualize the oppressive system in which suicidal people experience forms of injustice and violence. The thesis pr…
View article: Forgotten Wishes: End-of-Life Documents for Trans People with Dementia at the Margins of Legal Change
Forgotten Wishes: End-of-Life Documents for Trans People with Dementia at the Margins of Legal Change Open
Literature on the topic of trans older adults has documented a few anecdotal cases in which some trans people living with dementia forgot they transitioned and reidentified with their sex assigned at birth (“detransition”). Trans communiti…
View article: Transabled women lost in translation?
Transabled women lost in translation? Open
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View article: Intersectionality, Lost in Translation? (Re)thinking inter-sections between Anglophone and Francophone intersectionality
Intersectionality, Lost in Translation? (Re)thinking inter-sections between Anglophone and Francophone intersectionality Open
Inspired by the intersectional formulation “All the Women Are White, All the Men Are Black,” this paper suggests that “all feminist intersectional analyses are Anglophone and all Francophone feminists are cisgender” to highlight the exclus…