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We are thrilled to launch the Queer Ontario Think Tank with Anne Tagonist’s 2009 essay, “Fuck You and Your Fucking Thesis” — a note to non-trans researchers who are considering doing research on trans people, trans lives, trans identities, and/or trans communities (including the lives and identities of the sexual and romantic partners of trans people). It raises a number of key points around the knowledge and power imbalances that would exist with such a project, particularly its relationship to university access for trans people and community-generated research opportunities.
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The original essay can be found on Anne Tagonist’s LiveJournal blog, here http://tagonist.livejournal.com/199563.html, and has been posted on the Queer Ontario Think Tank via a free-use Creative Commons license issued by Anne on December 10, 2009.
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If you, yourself, are interested in submitting a work to the Queer Ontario Think Tank, feel free to review our submission guidelines here http://thinktank.queerontario.org/submissions, or simply email your work and a short description to info@queerontario.org. We will let you know if we need any additional material or information.
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In solidarity,
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The Queer Ontario Think Tank Editorial Committee
info@queerontario.org