... affordances of everyday life from which they are often excluded. The book also looks at the emotional and affective toll media use takes on transgender individuals, along with their resilience in the face of media disempowerment. Finally, the book complicates the queer/normal binary—recognizing the ways...

...The introduction contextualizes and previews the book’s primary aims and arguments. It discusses the book’s methodology, its focus on everyday life, its relevance to queer and transgender thought, and its engagement with theories of media and audiences. Opening with the life story of Margie...

... life. In this way, the chapter theorizes everyday life as an ongoing, practical accomplishment. For the participants in my study, the rhythms and routines of the ordinary and everyday were elusive and often out of reach. Daily tasks such as running errands or using a public restroom were often...

... worlds Life in the Day of VFS A school film World Challenge pathways connection disconnection social reproduction Methodology Ethnography Voice Everyday life Routines Children’s lives Spaces of childhood An illuminating moment in our fieldwork took place a few weeks into the first term...

...This chapter examines the construction of Korean adoptees as members of the all-encompassing diaspora in relation to everyday life when adoptees encounter South Koreans in the streets. Drawing on a series of impressionistic vignettes, it analyzes the pace of change in transnational adoptees...

... can see the enduring power of the family and father ideals along with the complexity and varieties of everyday life in American history. Each protagonist covers a crucial period or event in American history, presents a different family constellation, and makes a different argument with regard to how...