Amber Moore
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amber Moore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amber |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore |
| SIGNATURE | MOORE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8321-5618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Say more?” Refusal, resonance, and the feminist ear in academic review
In this arts-based inquiry, we explore how feminist ways of being can shape and reshape the practice of academic review. Drawing on experiences of being reviewed, we story moments of discomfort where we were pushed to “say more” or offer more of ourselves (e.g. about our identities, femininity, and trauma) by academic peers in response to sharing embodied or reflexive work. We focus on key moments when we balked, felt hesitance and/or declined th…
That Poem Was Pretty Wild to Me”: On Personal Safety and Precarious Moments in Teacher Candidates’ Responses to Sexual Assault Narratives
Please note that some discussions of domestic, sexual, and racial violence are included in this article. This article explores how teachers and students in a teacher training program constructed precarious moments by engaging with sexual assault literature and pedagogy that centers rape culture and sexual trauma. In this qualitative feminist study, 23 participants took up readings of a sexual trauma text set and responded to pedagogy for teaching…
‘We know Charlie’: A case of epistolary education and brave space in The Perks of Being a Wallflower fanfiction
This article takes up epistolary writing and the chronicling of experiences with and the impact of sexual violence in an example of fanfiction written in response to the classic young adult (YA) trauma novel, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Because this novel explores the impact of childhood sexual abuse, this project posits that two particular fanfiction stories (a fic and its sequel) offers a theorization of Charlie’s letters…
Analyzing an archive of allyish distributed mentorship in "Speak" fan fiction comments and reviews
Young adult sexual assault narrative Speak (1999), by Laurie Halse Anderson, has inspired a small yet significant fandom, especially across two key platforms: Archive of Our Own (AO3) and FanFiction.net (FFN). The responses to fan fiction inspired by Speak demonstrate compelling discourses—celebratory, critical, vulnerable, and pedagogic—that also show evidence of significant allyish distributed mentorship in the Speak fandom archive. These comme…
Freighted Friendships to Phony Flowers: Feminist Memory Work and Self-Study in a Study Abroad Program
Background: This paper analyzes a remembered shared experience of cocurricular designing and coteaching an experiential learning pilot project in a university study abroad program (SAP) that emphasized social justice. Purpose: We look back because the pilot program is a significant demonstration of what complexities can arise when feminist educators bring their own politics and pedagogies to experiential learning and study abroad education contex…
Representations of Testimonial Smothering and Critical Witnessing of Rape Victim–Survivors in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak Fanfiction
‘Just a bit of fluff and happiness’: Examining Romantic Rewritings of Respair in YA Sexual Assault Narrative Fanfiction
Drawing on the concept of feminist respair, this paper takes up fanfiction written in response to two young adult (YA) sexual assault narratives and considers how the trauma in each is transformed through romantic retellings. This surfaces discursively, including but not limited to respectful relationships built on friend/ally/ship, familial support, desire and love, and sometimes, consensual sexual pleasure
Evaluating police drug diversion in England: Protocol for a realist evaluation
There is increasing international interest in the use of police drug diversion schemes that offer people suspected of minor drug-related offences an educative or therapeutic intervention as an alternative to criminalisation. While there have been randomised trials of some such schemes for their effects on reducing offending, with generally positive results, less is known about the health outcomes, and what works, for whom, in what circumstances a…
To You, Who May Find Yourself in This Story’: What a Baker’s Memoir Taught an Emerging Education Scholar
This paper explores the ways in which pleasure-reading a Jackie Kai Ellis’ memoir, The Measure of my Powers: A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris turned into an intense exercise of critical reflection on personal growth and grief in pursuing academia. This story resonated deeply with me, especially due to how Ellis’ endeavouring to excel, find space, and secure a place in her work as an entrepeneur baker connects to the sometimes painful and often…
Whore Name
Safe space(s), content (trigger) warnings, and being ‘care-ful’ with trauma literature pedagogy and rape culture in secondary English teacher education
Drawing on data from a larger feminist study that explored how secondary English teacher candidates responded to a sexual trauma text set and pedagogy for teaching such narratives with Canadian adolescents, this paper examines how caretaker discourses emerged in response to these stories and learning. This especially manifested as emerging teacher participants discussed and troubled the notion of ‘safety’ in schools altogether, searched for ways …
Come Scream with Me: On feminist stories and screaming into the void
In this paper, we apply a scholarly lens to ‘screaming into the void,’ especially in response to similarly intense moments of lived experience as emergent feminist and literacy education scholars. Together, we produce storied soundscapes of screaming – a kind of cartography that we call feminist ‘screamscapes’, largely in response to our experience as cruel optimist early academics. We understand our screamscapes as feminist snaps, or breaking po…
Abodes of the vajra‐yoginīs: Mount Maṇicūḍa and Paśupatikṣetra as envisaged in the Tridalakamala and Maṇiśailamahāvadāna
This study examines how the logic of localisation functions in Buddhist tantric literature and ritual as a powerful tool to convey knowledge and authoritative lineage via the immediacy of the manifest world. Literature composed in Newar (Nepāl Bhāṣā) and Sanskrit continues to link the pantheon of Buddhist tantric deities to religious figures and multivalent sites in the Kathmandu Valley. Narratives of exploits (avadānas) and songs describe how he…
Just how depraved is this town?”: An intersectional interrogation of feminist snaps, slut shaming, and sometimes sisterhood in Riverdale ’s rape culture
This paper interrogates how rape culture is represented in “Chapter Three: Body Double” of Riverdale through an examination of how it operates through issues of feminism and sisterhood. This case study illustrates the complex ways in which teen television addresses rape culture with increased attention to intersectionality by examining an episode depicting how girls respond to features of rape culture—namely, slut-shaming. Through an intersection…
Pulping as Poetic Inquiry: On Upcycling 'Upset' to Reckon Anew With Rape Culture, Rejection, and (Re)Turning to Trauma Texts
This article explores an experience of 'pulping,' a rejected poetry inquiry; that is, the author describes revisiting and rewriting a micro poetry cluster about rape culture and teaching trauma texts nixed by reviewers for being too 'upsetting.' This project aims to (a) demonstrate the potential of poetic inquiry for 'pulping' refused art, (b) resist silencing of sexual violence, and to (c) call for creative 'upcycling' of upset. The author retur…
Traumatic Geographies: Mapping the Violent Landscapes Driving YA Rape Survivors Indoors in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak , Elizabeth Scott’s Living Dead Girl , and E. K. Johnston’s Exit, Pursued by a …
The rape of the land and of women has long been connected in literature and across cultures (Phillips). Young Adult (YA) sexual assault narratives are growing increasingly popular, and the location of attacks in such stories is significant, such as when rape is depicted in nature, because, in reality, much sexual violence occurs in the private sphere (Kerber)—the home (Altrows). Using an ecofeminist lens and conceptions regarding the treatment of…
Eight Events for Entering a PhD: A Poetic Inquiry Into Happiness, Humility, and Self-Care
These two poetry clusters comprised a total of eight poems that offer (a) reflective, "past" event poetry and (b) hopeful "humbling" event pieces for future use. Inspired by scholarship examining novice academics' emotions upon entering graduate school, each poem outlines a potential path to accessing happiness, humility-an especially important quality in graduate school, particularly while writing-and ideas for self-care. As such, through poetic…
The Last Block of Ice”: Trauma Literature in the High School Classroom
This article explores the potential of using trauma literature in the secondary high school classroom, drawing from a case study that explored grade 10 secondary students’ responses to a trauma story. These responses were primarily collected from their digital writing and reveal a number of interesting findings, including the expression of anger and aggression in their writing, discussions of combating depression, and engaging in supportive commu…
Anecdotes, an Aphorism from Billy Bob Thornton
Pulping as Poetic Inquiry: On Upcycling 'Upset' to Reckon Anew With Rape Culture, Rejection, and (Re)Turning to Trauma Texts
This article explores an experience of 'pulping,' a rejected poetry inquiry; that is, the author describes revisiting and rewriting a micro poetry cluster about rape culture and teaching trauma texts nixed by reviewers for being too 'upsetting.' This project aims to (a) demonstrate the potential of poetic inquiry for 'pulping' refused art, (b) resist silencing of sexual violence, and to (c) call for creative 'upcycling' of upset. The author retur…
Eight Events for Entering a PhD: A Poetic Inquiry Into Happiness, Humility, and Self-Care
These two poetry clusters comprised a total of eight poems that offer (a) reflective, "past" event poetry and (b) hopeful "humbling" event pieces for future use. Inspired by scholarship examining novice academics' emotions upon entering graduate school, each poem outlines a potential path to accessing happiness, humility-an especially important quality in graduate school, particularly while writing-and ideas for self-care. As such, through poetic…
Just how depraved is this town?”: An intersectional interrogation of feminist snaps, slut shaming, and sometimes sisterhood in Riverdale ’s rape culture
This paper interrogates how rape culture is represented in “Chapter Three: Body Double” of Riverdale through an examination of how it operates through issues of feminism and sisterhood. This case study illustrates the complex ways in which teen television addresses rape culture with increased attention to intersectionality by examining an episode depicting how girls respond to features of rape culture—namely, slut-shaming. Through an intersection…
Anecdotes, an Aphorism from Billy Bob Thornton
The Last Block of Ice”: Trauma Literature in the High School Classroom
This article explores the potential of using trauma literature in the secondary high school classroom, drawing from a case study that explored grade 10 secondary students’ responses to a trauma story. These responses were primarily collected from their digital writing and reveal a number of interesting findings, including the expression of anger and aggression in their writing, discussions of combating depression, and engaging in supportive commu…
Traumatic Geographies: Mapping the Violent Landscapes Driving YA Rape Survivors Indoors in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak , Elizabeth Scott’s Living Dead Girl , and E. K. Johnston’s Exit, Pursued by a …
The rape of the land and of women has long been connected in literature and across cultures (Phillips). Young Adult (YA) sexual assault narratives are growing increasingly popular, and the location of attacks in such stories is significant, such as when rape is depicted in nature, because, in reality, much sexual violence occurs in the private sphere (Kerber)—the home (Altrows). Using an ecofeminist lens and conceptions regarding the treatment of…
Eight Events for Entering a PhD: A Poetic Inquiry Into Happiness, Humility, and Self-Care
These two poetry clusters comprised a total of eight poems that offer (a) reflective, "past" event poetry and (b) hopeful "humbling" event pieces for future use. Inspired by scholarship examining novice academics' emotions upon entering graduate school, each poem outlines a potential path to accessing happiness, humility-an especially important quality in graduate school, particularly while writing-and ideas for self-care. As such, through poetic…
Abodes of the vajra‐yoginīs: Mount Maṇicūḍa and Paśupatikṣetra as envisaged in the Tridalakamala and Maṇiśailamahāvadāna
This study examines how the logic of localisation functions in Buddhist tantric literature and ritual as a powerful tool to convey knowledge and authoritative lineage via the immediacy of the manifest world. Literature composed in Newar (Nepāl Bhāṣā) and Sanskrit continues to link the pantheon of Buddhist tantric deities to religious figures and multivalent sites in the Kathmandu Valley. Narratives of exploits (avadānas) and songs describe how he…
Just how depraved is this town?”: An intersectional interrogation of feminist snaps, slut shaming, and sometimes sisterhood in Riverdale ’s rape culture
This paper interrogates how rape culture is represented in “Chapter Three: Body Double” of Riverdale through an examination of how it operates through issues of feminism and sisterhood. This case study illustrates the complex ways in which teen television addresses rape culture with increased attention to intersectionality by examining an episode depicting how girls respond to features of rape culture—namely, slut-shaming. Through an intersection…
Pulping as Poetic Inquiry: On Upcycling 'Upset' to Reckon Anew With Rape Culture, Rejection, and (Re)Turning to Trauma Texts
This article explores an experience of 'pulping,' a rejected poetry inquiry; that is, the author describes revisiting and rewriting a micro poetry cluster about rape culture and teaching trauma texts nixed by reviewers for being too 'upsetting.' This project aims to (a) demonstrate the potential of poetic inquiry for 'pulping' refused art, (b) resist silencing of sexual violence, and to (c) call for creative 'upcycling' of upset. The author retur…
Come Scream with Me: On feminist stories and screaming into the void
In this paper, we apply a scholarly lens to ‘screaming into the void,’ especially in response to similarly intense moments of lived experience as emergent feminist and literacy education scholars. Together, we produce storied soundscapes of screaming – a kind of cartography that we call feminist ‘screamscapes’, largely in response to our experience as cruel optimist early academics. We understand our screamscapes as feminist snaps, or breaking po…
Safe space(s), content (trigger) warnings, and being ‘care-ful’ with trauma literature pedagogy and rape culture in secondary English teacher education
Drawing on data from a larger feminist study that explored how secondary English teacher candidates responded to a sexual trauma text set and pedagogy for teaching such narratives with Canadian adolescents, this paper examines how caretaker discourses emerged in response to these stories and learning. This especially manifested as emerging teacher participants discussed and troubled the notion of ‘safety’ in schools altogether, searched for ways …
‘Just a bit of fluff and happiness’: Examining Romantic Rewritings of Respair in YA Sexual Assault Narrative Fanfiction
Drawing on the concept of feminist respair, this paper takes up fanfiction written in response to two young adult (YA) sexual assault narratives and considers how the trauma in each is transformed through romantic retellings. This surfaces discursively, including but not limited to respectful relationships built on friend/ally/ship, familial support, desire and love, and sometimes, consensual sexual pleasure
Evaluating police drug diversion in England: Protocol for a realist evaluation
There is increasing international interest in the use of police drug diversion schemes that offer people suspected of minor drug-related offences an educative or therapeutic intervention as an alternative to criminalisation. While there have been randomised trials of some such schemes for their effects on reducing offending, with generally positive results, less is known about the health outcomes, and what works, for whom, in what circumstances a…
To You, Who May Find Yourself in This Story’: What a Baker’s Memoir Taught an Emerging Education Scholar
This paper explores the ways in which pleasure-reading a Jackie Kai Ellis’ memoir, The Measure of my Powers: A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris turned into an intense exercise of critical reflection on personal growth and grief in pursuing academia. This story resonated deeply with me, especially due to how Ellis’ endeavouring to excel, find space, and secure a place in her work as an entrepeneur baker connects to the sometimes painful and often…
Whore Name
‘We know Charlie’: A case of epistolary education and brave space in The Perks of Being a Wallflower fanfiction
This article takes up epistolary writing and the chronicling of experiences with and the impact of sexual violence in an example of fanfiction written in response to the classic young adult (YA) trauma novel, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Because this novel explores the impact of childhood sexual abuse, this project posits that two particular fanfiction stories (a fic and its sequel) offers a theorization of Charlie’s letters…
Analyzing an archive of allyish distributed mentorship in "Speak" fan fiction comments and reviews
Young adult sexual assault narrative Speak (1999), by Laurie Halse Anderson, has inspired a small yet significant fandom, especially across two key platforms: Archive of Our Own (AO3) and FanFiction.net (FFN). The responses to fan fiction inspired by Speak demonstrate compelling discourses—celebratory, critical, vulnerable, and pedagogic—that also show evidence of significant allyish distributed mentorship in the Speak fandom archive. These comme…
Freighted Friendships to Phony Flowers: Feminist Memory Work and Self-Study in a Study Abroad Program
Background: This paper analyzes a remembered shared experience of cocurricular designing and coteaching an experiential learning pilot project in a university study abroad program (SAP) that emphasized social justice. Purpose: We look back because the pilot program is a significant demonstration of what complexities can arise when feminist educators bring their own politics and pedagogies to experiential learning and study abroad education contex…
Representations of Testimonial Smothering and Critical Witnessing of Rape Victim–Survivors in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak Fanfiction
That Poem Was Pretty Wild to Me”: On Personal Safety and Precarious Moments in Teacher Candidates’ Responses to Sexual Assault Narratives
Please note that some discussions of domestic, sexual, and racial violence are included in this article. This article explores how teachers and students in a teacher training program constructed precarious moments by engaging with sexual assault literature and pedagogy that centers rape culture and sexual trauma. In this qualitative feminist study, 23 participants took up readings of a sexual trauma text set and responded to pedagogy for teaching…
Say more?” Refusal, resonance, and the feminist ear in academic review
In this arts-based inquiry, we explore how feminist ways of being can shape and reshape the practice of academic review. Drawing on experiences of being reviewed, we story moments of discomfort where we were pushed to “say more” or offer more of ourselves (e.g. about our identities, femininity, and trauma) by academic peers in response to sharing embodied or reflexive work. We focus on key moments when we balked, felt hesitance and/or declined th…
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