ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ethics of representation and dissemination using creative intersectional feminist, queer, and trans methodologies of ethnodrama and ethnotheatre to share trans and intersex research. The original research project interviewed 36 trans, intersex, and LGBTI activists about relationships between trans and intersex activists and activisms. Many participants knew each other and shared delicate stories. An ethnodrama with composite characters was written as an ethical way to anonymise participant identities and protect participants’ ongoing relationships. Each character represents the voices of several real participants with lines drawn verbatim from interviews. This chapter discusses the work of taking the ethnodrama playscript from page to stage as a piece of ethnotheatre, As Is, performed in Glasgow (United Kingdom), in 2022. The play took the context of law reform to discuss social change and activist relationships. The fictionalised ‘ASIS Bill’ is drawn from real laws discussed by participants. This chapter considers the challenges of intersectional methodologies and representative work of the researcher and the cast. It discusses producing this play drawn from research as an example of intersectional feminist, queer, and trans methodologies to challenge dominant narratives that are cisnormative, heteronormative, and heteropatriarchal.
