Arts-Based Research: “It’s me”
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https://doi.org/10.17561/rtc.extra6.6017Keywords:
Transsexuality , Arts-based research , Creative writing , Plastic Arts , InclusionAbstract
We live in a hierarchical society full of cultural traps that point out and categorize from the first educational bases. Something as simple as the terms "boy" or "girl" generate a confusion that is sometimes irreversible for the construction of identity, an unfair inequality from which the word "diversity" remains a mere illusion of the educational program.
The main need that leads to carrying out this field work is based on the social ignorance that currently exists towards the group of transsexual people. This ignorance because of ignorance, makes us settle erroneous premises, impregnated with acts of rejection and discrimination that leave enormous consequences in their wake. Fortunately, technological progress and health facilities are taking steps towards achieving adaptation, but the truth is that, without awareness of inclusive education in society, any group outside of the "normally established" is a priori, a deviant person. The objective, therefore, is to explore transsexuality from an internal point of view to empathize and understand the reality of this group in a profound way, and to verify if this social rejection is truly fulfilled, which hypothetically is what has led us to carry out the research.
From this ethnographic inquiry based on arts, a case study based on the life experience of a transsexual woman is integrated, which uses various artistic methods: on the one hand, creative writing (delving into the narrative of the life history of the protagonist) and on the other, the plastic arts, delving into the expression of emotions. This is why we can realize that it is an ethnographic research based on arts, since the aforementioned artistic methods are present as data extraction tools, offering us the pertinent bases to contrast the previous premise from which we started.
In addition, this article expresses the justification, a few brief notes on the rationale, objectives, and how the entire methodological process has been carried out from different visual and audiovisual formats. Well, from them you can perfectly appreciate all the development of the research carried out.
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