Transformative Storytelling: Connecting Communities through Creative Writing Workshops
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Authors
Harwood-Jones, Markus
Date
2025-01-06
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thesis
Language
eng
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Trans Studies , Creative Writing , Literature , Community-Based Research , Two-Spirit , Non-Binary , Transgender , Storytelling , Workshop , Pedagogy , Autoethnography , Genre , COVID-19 , Pandemic , Emergent Strategy
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What happens when trans, Two-Spirit, and non-binary people come together to share our stories? In this dissertation, I seek to answer this question with an autoethnographic narrative centred on the Transformative Storytelling (TS) creative writing workshops series. Organized by the Three Hares Collective—a temporary working group that consisted of three members including Myriad Augustine, Shane Forrest, and myself—the TS project was initially conceived in 2019 but underwent several stages of messy reinvention before finally resulting in a four-part virtual series held from February to May 2021. Initially intended to act as the foundation for a publishable anthology of trans, Two-Spirit, and non-binary writing, the project was heavily impacted by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and ultimately refocused on providing a supportive community space during a period when many community members were facing unprecedented levels of personal isolation. My personal reflections on this project recognize how through efforts of collaborative literary analysis and collective storytelling, we forged a temporary yet meaningful literary community capable of articulating a new genre called “transformative storytelling.” The insights from this project have broad implications for multiple fields of research including trans literary studies, community-based research, creative writing workshop pedagogy.
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