Research & Publications

Walker, M. (2021). Exploring the CYC cis-tem: A literature review of queer and trans topics in child and youth Care. International Journal of Child, Youth, and Family Services: Special Issue – Queering Child and Youth Care, 12 (3-4), 23-54.

Vachon, W. & Walker, M. (equal co-authors) (2021). Introduction: Possibilities, futures, and queer world-making in CYC. International Journal of Child, Youth, and Family Services: Special Issue – Queering Child and Youth Care, 12 (3-4), 1-22.

Walker, M. (2014). Gender and language: Examining the use of diagnostic language in the discussion of gender variance. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, 5(2), 332-345.

Little, J.N. & Walker, M. (2013). Reconceptualizing multicultural discourse as shifting geographies. Child and Youth Services, 33(3-4), 317-328.

Publications


Selected Presentations

Walker, M. (2021). Exploring Current Approaches to Trauma Support for Gender-Diverse Survivors of Violence [conference presentation]. Moving Trans History Forward 2021, Online.

Walker, M. (2021). Supporting Gender-Diverse Survivors of Trauma: Exploring Current Approaches to Trauma Support for Trans, Two-Spirit, and Nonbinary People Who Have Experienced Violence. Chair in Transgender Studies Speaker Series, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.

Walker, M (2021). “Mental Health Research with Trans, Nonbinary, and Other Gender Diverse People” [invited guest lecture]. Social Dimensions of Health: 501a/601a: Social Dimensions of Health Colloquium. Instructor: Dr. Simon Carroll, University of Victoria, 2021

Walker, M. (2018). “Sorry, I don’t understand the question”: Exploring youth language and terminology in online social worlds and contexts [conference session]. Moving Trans History Forward Conference 2018, Victoria BC

MacAdams, A., Jack, A., Morrison, J., MacIntosh, L., & Walker, M. (2018). From Translation to Generation: Reimagining Knowledge and Language in Practice with Young Trans and Non-Binary People [panel discussion]. Moving Trans History Forward Conference 2018, Victoria BC

Walker, M. (2017). “I am Something Else, for Now”: Exploring Youth Conversations of Gender Online [conference session]. Child & Youth Care in Action V Conference, Victoria BC

“I am Something Else, for Now”: Exploring Youth Conversations of Gender Online
[paper presentation], Child & Youth Care in Action V Conference, 2017

Walker, M. (2016). “Today I Feel Like this . . . Tomorrow may be Different”: Youth Conversations and Contexts of Gender [poster presentation]. Moving Trans History Forward 2016, Victoria BC