Mentorship as Co-Created Relational Learning Alongside Trans and Non-binary Young Adults: A Visual Narrative Inquiry

Trans Young Adults’ Building Communities: Narratives and Counternarratives of Identity and World Making

“…The narrative accounts were negotiated and finalized with each participant's feedback. Final narrative accounts (interim texts) include: a play, short stories, poems, artworks, and stories (Lavoie, 2021b). The final analysis involved exploring narrative threads that resonated across the narrative accounts (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000).…”

“…These creative activities took place both on an individual basis and in small groups with other participants in this study. Artistic methods were used to facilitate autobiographical exploration and storytelling (Caine, 2007;Caine & Lavoie, 2015;Grace & Wells, 2007;Lavoie & Caine, 2021;Lavoie, 2021aLavoie, , 2021b) and served to "queer" or disrupt hetero-and cisnormative discourse and identity formation. The use of all data sources was negotiated with participants.…”

“…Their use of artmaking, and telling stories and counterstories, is forefronted to illuminate the complexities they negotiate both within Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) 1 communities and in the public sphere. Elsewhere (Lavoie & Caine, 2021;Lavoie, 2021aLavoie, , 2021b, I have focused on participants' use of artmaking to create generative, transgressive, and transformative spaces to support their lives. This paper unpacks how Adebayo, Espen, and Max employed artmaking, narratives, and counternarratives, to counter hegemonic narratives and make sense of their lives as they transformed their identities.…”