ABSTRACT

Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography showcases a collection of narrative and autoethnographic research that unpacks the complexity of gender at its intersections, i.e. by ability, race, sexuality, religion, beauty, geography, spatiality, community, performance, politics, socio-economic status, education, and many other markers of difference.

The book focuses on gender as it is lived, chaperoned, and chaperones other social identity categories. It tells stories that reveal problematic gender binaries, promising gender futures, and everything in between—they ask us to rethink what we assume to be true, real, and normal about gender identity and expression. Each essay, written by both gender variant and cisgender scholars, explores cultural phenomena that create space for us to re-imagine, re-think, and create new ways of being.

This book will be useful for undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional degree students, particularly in the fields of gender studies, qualitative methods, and communication theory.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography
ByAmber L. Johnson, Benny LeMaster

part Section I|70 pages

Existence as Disruption

chapter |1 pages

Are You Boy or Girl?

ByJ. Nyla McNeill

chapter |13 pages

Disrupting Compulsory Performances

Snapshots and Stories of Masculinity, Disability, and Parenthood in Cultural Currents of Daily Life
ByJulie-Ann Scott

chapter |18 pages

On Possibility

Queer Relationality and Coalition-Building in the University Classroom
ByShadee Abdi, Anthony P. Cuomo

chapter |14 pages

Dancing at the Intersections

Heteronormativity, Gender Normativity, and Fatness
ByMiranda Dottie Olzman

chapter |16 pages

Are We Queer Yet?

Queerness on the Horizon in Academia
ByBernadette Marie Calafell, Shinsuke Eguchi

chapter |2 pages

Black. Queer. Fly.

ByKai M. Green

part Section II|56 pages

Identity Negotiation and Internal Struggles

chapter |2 pages

I Was the First to Tie My Laces.

ByNora J. Klein

chapter |14 pages

Dancing with My Gender Struggle

Attempts at Storying Queer Worldmaking
ByGreg Hummel

chapter |12 pages

Beauty in the Intersections

Reflections on Quiet Suffering
ByAmber L. Johnson

chapter |11 pages

Your Memories and Masculinities' Mantras

ByMeggie Mapes

chapter |9 pages

Lone Star Feminist

Storming through Autoethnographic Performance
ByAndrea Baldwin

chapter |1 pages

Dysphoria/Y'all Know What I Mean?

ByJ. Nyla McNeill

part Section III|52 pages

The Erotic as a Site for Normative Disruption

chapter |1 pages

Untitled

ByGray Bowers

chapter |14 pages

If Rigor is our Dream

Theorizing Black Transmasculine Futures through Ancestral Erotics
ByDaniel B. Coleman

chapter |9 pages

In Defense of the Tranny Chaser

ByBilly Huff

chapter |18 pages

Gender Fucked

Stories on Love and Lust or How We Released Expectation and Found Ourselves in Trans Sexual Relation
ByBenny LeMaster, S. Donald Bellamy

chapter |1 pages

Untitled

ByDanny Shultz

chapter |2 pages

Untitled 2

ByDanny Shultz

part Section IV|62 pages

Queering History, Imagining Futures

chapter |1 pages

Black Girl Memory

ByKai M. Green

chapter |4 pages

The Burgundy Coat

ByCraig Gingrich-Philbrook

chapter |16 pages

A Present, Past, Future Negotiation of Queer Femme Identity

ByKathryn Hobson

chapter |14 pages

Narrative Embodiment of Latinx Queer Futurity

Pause for Dramatic Affect
ByShane T. Moreman

chapter |2 pages

Pulse

ByAmber L. Johnson

chapter |17 pages

Writing a Hard and Passing Rain

Autotheory, Autoethnography, and Queer Futures
ByStacy Holman Jones

chapter |1 pages

Pay It No Mind

ByVin Olefer

chapter |5 pages

Gender Futurity

A Plea for Pleasure
ByAmber L. Johnson, Benny LeMaster