I’m pleased to share that my article, “Restorying trans futures: Virtual world-becoming through VR painting and speculative storytelling,” has been published in Learning, Media and Technology and is now available online.
The paper analyzes Creative Futures, a 2018 linear and 360º documentary in which three trans youth used virtual reality painting to critique harm and imagine more livable futures. I examine their creative work as virtual world-becoming—a process of moving between lived histories of exclusion and speculative futures grounded in joy, kinship, and belonging.
Bringing together trans-queer phenomenologies, trans joy studies, speculative education, and restorying, the article argues that digital storytelling can function as both critique and possibility. Rather than centering deficit narratives, the youth’s VR worlds foreground collective care, cozy and communal technologies, and the importance of spaces where trans and queer people can thrive.
You can read the full article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2026.2626505
