Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography: Embodied Theorizing from the Margins / Edition 1

by Amber L. Johnson, Benny LeMaster

Overview

Awards

Innovator Award for Outstanding Edited Collection, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Caucus, Central States Communication Association, 2023.

Outstanding Book in Performance Studies and Autoethnography, Performance Studies and Autoethnography Division, Central States Communication Association, 2023.

Book of the Year, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2022.

Book of the Year, Ethnography Division, National Communication Association, 2020.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367489601
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/29/2020
Series:	Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Amber L. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Communication and Social Justice at Saint Louis University and founder of The Justice Fleet, a mobile social justice museum fostering healing through art, dialogue, and play.

Benny LeMaster is Assistant Professor of Critical/Cultural Communication Studies and Performance in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. They spend most of their time in queer and trans community laughing, making art, performing, and cooking and eating, all while loving and being loved.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography

Section I: Existence as Disruption

are you boy or girl? J. Nyla McNeill

Disrupting Compulsory Performances: Snapshots and Stories of Masculinity, Disability and Parenthood in Cultural Currents of Daily Life Julie A Scott

On Possibility: Queer Relationality and Coalition-Building in the University Classroom Shadee Abdi and Anthony Cuomo

Dancing at the Intersections: Heteronormativity, Gender Normativity and Fatness in the Adult Dance Studio Miranda Olzman

Are We Queer Yet?: Queerness on the Horizon in Academia Bernadette Marie Calafell and Shinsuke Eguchi

Black. Queer. Fly. Kai Green

Section II: Identity Negotiation and Internal Struggles

I was the first to tie my laces. Nora J. Klein

Dancing with My Gender Struggle: Attempts at Storying Queer Worldmaking Greg Hummel

Beauty in the Intersections: Reflections on Quiet Suffering Amber Johnson

Your memories and masculinities’ mantras Meggie Mapes

Lone Star Feminist: Storming through Autoethnographic Performance Written and Performed by: Andrea Baldwin

Dysphoria/Y’all Know What I Mean? J. Nyla McNeill

Section III: The Erotic as a Site for Normative Disruption

Untitled Graham Bowers

If Rigor is Our Dream: Theorizing Black Trans*masculine Futures through Ancestral Erotics Daniel B. Coleman

In Defense of the Tranny Chaser Billy Huff

Gender Fucked: Stories on Love and Lust or How We Released Expectation and Found Ourselves in Trans Sexual Relation Benny LeMaster & S. Donald Bellamy

Untitled 1 Danny Shultz

Untitled 2 Danny Shultz

Section IV: Queering History, Imagining Futures

Black Girl Memory Kai M. Green

The Burgundy Coat Craig Gingrich-Philbrook

A present, past, future negotiation of queer femme identity Kathryn Hobson

Narrative Embodiment of Latinx Queer Futurity: Pause for Dramatic Affect Shane T. Moreman

Pulse Amber Johnson

Writing a Hard and Passing Rain: Auto-theory, Autoethnography, and Queer Futures Stacy Holman Jones

Pay It No Mind by Vin Olefer

Gender Futurity: A Plea for Pleasure