Book Launch: Going Along With Trans, Queer, and Non-Binary Youth by Sam Stiegler

Come and celebrate the launch of Going Along with Trans, Queer and Non-Binary Youth (SUNY Press) by Sam Stiegler (Melbourne University). Listen to Sam in conversation with Victoria Rawlings (University of Sydney) and Adam Greteman (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) as he recounts the engaging, self-reflective stories of conducting research with transgender, queer, and non-binary youth as they go about their everyday lives in New York City. Stay afterwards to continue the conversation and sample some of the best beers from the Inner West at Willie the Boatman (cash bar).

"This book recounts a series of mobile interviews—or "go-alongs"—with eleven transgender, queer, and non-binary youth to examine the everyday ways they navigated and made their lives in New York City. By telling the stories of how the go-alongs transpired and using detailed narrative description, Sam Stiegler shifts methodological attention to those parts of scholarly studies that often get left on the cutting room floor. Going Along with Trans, Queer, and Non-Binary Youth foregrounds process, not just findings, reflecting on the complexities of embodying the position of researcher and what it was like to do research with these participants. We, as readers, are compelled not only to see how these young people express knowledge about their worlds and their understandings of race, gender, sexuality, class, and age but also to appraise how we make sense of them in the course of our reading."

This event is proudly hosted by the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC), The University of Sydney.