Always Already Geopolitical: Trans Health Care and Global Tactical Technical Communication — Texas Tech University Scholars
Avery C. Edenfield, Jared S. Colton, Steve Holmes
Transgender persons face many barriers preventing them from accessing and receiving health care. Gender-transition care can be difficult because such care is frequently contingent upon geopolitics, such as location-based health-care policies that exclude transgender community attitudes and values. This article uses rhetorical cluster analysis to explore the combining two conceptual lenses—tactical technical communication and participatory localization—to study the do-it-yourself geopolitical medical literacies of transgender people in one Reddit forum. We found being trans online means to be tactical and geopolitical, encountering and negotiating geopolitical awareness of health-care options, exposing a privilege invisible to cisgender users.
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Edenfield, A. C., Colton, J. S., & Holmes, S. (2019). Always Already Geopolitical: Trans Health Care and Global Tactical Technical Communication. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 49(4), 433-457. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281619871211
Edenfield, Avery C. ; Colton, Jared S. ; Holmes, Steve. / Always Already Geopolitical : Trans Health Care and Global Tactical Technical Communication. In: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 2019 ; Vol. 49, No. 4. pp. 433-457.
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Edenfield AC, Colton JS, Holmes S. Always Already Geopolitical: Trans Health Care and Global Tactical Technical Communication. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 2019 Oct 1;49(4):433-457. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281619871211