Abstract
This article lies betwixt methodological, conceptual, and empirical scholarship, queering traditional presentations of qualitative research to imagine what a future in the academy could look like for queer and trans faculty if the academy instead prioritized queer and trans joy, thriving, and life. The authors, two queer and trans early-career tenure-track faculty, utilize divination dialogues, or conversations that take place during and following a divinatory practice such as tarot reading, as a liberatory politic of community building and co-theorization on how to actualize our own futures in a colonial, neoliberal academy. In presenting excerpts from the conversation that took place during their divination dialogue, the authors reflect on their time as former graduate students and current faculty, through which they highlight four ways that queer and trans academics can infuse our queerness into the academy as a reclamation of our space.
Methodological Approach
Theoretical or Conceptual
DOI
https://doi.org/10.60808/bs18-sq77
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Recommended Citation
Gutzwa, J. A., & Gonzalez, S. A. (2024). Three Card Spread: Theorizing Queer and Trans Futurity for Tenure-Track Faculty Through Divination Dialogues. Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.60808/bs18-sq77
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