ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Greg Hummel uses a process of articulation—disarticulation—rearticulation that Benny LeMaster and I developed in a response essay for Communication Education (LeMaster & Hummel, forthcoming) to autoethnographically engage my dances with gender. I begin with a storied interaction with my then-romantic partner as a way to articulate my struggles with being ascribed male/man/masculine/boy in this hirsute bag of bones I inhabit. I then follow with a narrative surrounding an interaction I had with one of my students as I work to disarticulate my gender. I finish with a brief ode to the queer people in my life who have helped and continue to help me rearticulate a gender narrative that dances somewhere in-between the gender binary. At the core of these stories are the queer relationships and the queer bonds that call me in to being and becoming differently gendered.
