{"id":7516,"date":"2024-01-26T10:18:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/?p=7516"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:57:44","slug":"slipping-into-the-shadows-dan-irving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/2024\/slipping-into-the-shadows-dan-irving\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipping Into the Shadows: Boxing, Affect and Healing Justice &#8211; book chapter by Professor Dan Irving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Slipping Into the Shadows: Boxing, Affect and Healing Justice &#8211; book chapter by Professor Dan Irving\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This chapter offers an autotheoretical account of my experiences as a trans man training for my first amateur bout \u2013 one that has yet to come but borne out of a never-ending fight. My chapter is in conversation with autobiography (McBee, 2018), journalistic (Oates, 2006) and ethnographical scholarship addressing the intricacies of pugilistic violence as a response to systemic gender, racial, sexual and economic oppression (Beauchez, 2017; Rutter, 2007).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boxing draws fighters from marginalized communities. As a trans man, I have fought intense \u2018negative\u2019 feelings most of my life \u2013 emotions culminating into rage. I joined an amateur boxing club in Ottawa after trying to instigate a street altercation with a stranger. Feeling out of control, I sought refuge with others who also believe fighting solves problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Irving is a faculty member in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emerald.com%2Finsight%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DDan%2520Irving&amp;data=05%7C02%7CFemiAjidahun%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5ad17ba97a0e4cb7b43508dc1cf23967%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638417073858808577%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=9E3VFZRpV8KV5xql%2F2r8DM5aLmUfOMOXXzDpoyXEAF8%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Irving, D.<\/a>&nbsp;(2023), &#8220;Slipping Into the Shadows: Boxing, Affect and Healing Justice&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emerald.com%2Finsight%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DAli%2520Durham%2520Greey&amp;data=05%7C02%7CFemiAjidahun%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5ad17ba97a0e4cb7b43508dc1cf23967%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638417073858818392%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=OSYT4o6pgb%2F%2FnAmFqnpWxpOuHtVnSmWXPxBBFts1J%2F4%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Greey, A.D.<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emerald.com%2Finsight%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DHelen%2520Jefferson%2520Lenskyj&amp;data=05%7C02%7CFemiAjidahun%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C5ad17ba97a0e4cb7b43508dc1cf23967%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638417073858826982%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=9QNPGNsr8mPTi6OrXWQDN5hZFXC6mYKCz3jI8q3ormo%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Lenskyj, H.J.<\/a>&nbsp;(Ed.) <em>Trans Athletes\u2019 Resistance<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender<\/em>), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 59-69. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/978-1-80382-363-820231005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/978-1-80382-363-820231005<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chapter offers an autotheoretical account of my experiences as a trans man training for my first amateur bout \u2013 one that has yet to come but borne out of a never-ending fight. My chapter is in conversation with autobiography (McBee, 2018), journalistic (Oates, 2006) and ethnographical scholarship addressing the intricacies of pugilistic violence as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33,1],"tags":[81,80,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-7516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humr-news","category-news","tag-affect","tag-boxing","tag-healing","tag-sport","tag-transgender"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.carleton.ca\/truth\/images\/1958\/news-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}