| Abstrakt: |
Drawing parallels to the informal education and structure of do-it-yourself (DIY) maker ethos, this autoethnographic article examines how online community spaces, including social media and social networking platforms, serve trans men as personal learning environments in which to form personal learning networks for the purposes of creating DIY maker communities. Members of these communities share resources and information concerning social and medical transition to make their own lives and the lives of others more livable. At the same time, these trans communities paradoxically benefit from and are put in peril by the visibility of members and the sensitive information they share due to the semipublic nature of online social networking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
