Occasional Paper Series #52
A Light in Dark Times: In Overt Defense of Trans-Affirming Spaces in Education
by James F. Woglom, Stephanie Jones, and Dylan Brody
James F. Woglom is an artist/educator, associate professor of Art Education, and co-chair of the School of Education at Cal Poly Humboldt. He received his PhD from the University of Georgia, where he studied arts-based research methodologies and socially engaged practices. His co-authored graphic novel on social justice-oriented teacher education, On Mutant Pedagogies, was awarded the American Education Research Association’s Qualitative Research Group’s Outstanding Book Award.
Stephanie Jones is a Meigs Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia where she teaches courses on feminist theories and pedagogies, bodies and sex education for children and youth, justice-oriented teaching, critical literacies and writing, and post qualitative and post-humanist inquiry. Her feminist post-humanist scholarship focuses on justice-oriented formal and informal K-12 and teacher education.
Dylan Brody (they/them) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia. Their primary focus of scholarship is rooted in Critical Studies, with particular emphasis on early childhood (0-3), dimensions of justice in play, abolition, anti-oppressive pedagogy, and wonder as a healing portal.