ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I outline the methodologies I employed in this research. I also outline my approach to materialist research as an assemblage of events, researchers, research tools, ideas, etc. which are used to produce knowledge. I outline the ways I examined the gender and linguistic becomings of non-binary people in three different settings: (a) semi-structured interviews, (b) writing samples, and (c) discourse from an online forum. Combined, the data and subsequent analysis contribute to the knowledge base of non-binary gender identities both offline and online, as a research-assemblage. I argue that the combination of these methods was productive, as it offered a variety of ways to generate knowledge and to shed light on the gender and linguistic becomings of non-binary people. I also discuss details about my positionality as a researcher and the specific methods employed in this research (e.g., demographics, research design, recruitment, collection of data, ethics, and corpus analysis techniques).
