Roll for Resistance and Joy: Reauthoring Identity for Trans and Non-binary People of Colour with TTRPGs
Roll for Resistance and Joy: Reauthoring Identity for Trans and Non-binary People of Colour with TTRPGs
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2025-10-31
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Bandla, Rae
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Transgender and non-binary people of colour (TNB-BIPOC) face considerable minority stressors, socioeconomic disparities, and discrimination based on the intersection of race and gender. Combining concepts of constructivism, intersectionality, and disenfranchised grief, this capstone tackles how TNB-BIPOC can reauthor harmful narratives around their multiply disenfranchised identities into those of resistance, particularly by using TTRPGs. TNB-BIPOC can use roleplaying games as a creative possibility for reauthoring disenfranchisement narratives using character creation as a symbolic and narrative form of resistance. This capstone offers a call to action for therapists to educate themselves and complement the worldmaking processes and counternarratives that TNB-BIPOC already use to increase identity cohesion and resilience.
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transgender , transgender and non-binary people , transgender and non-binary people of colour , identity , intersectionality , gaming , resilience , ttrpg