Queer Theory and Feminist Pedagogy

Conventional design practices regard gender as a given precondition defined by femininity and masculinity. To shift these strategies to include non-heteronormative or queer users, queer theory served as a source of inspiration as well as user sensitive design techniques. As a result, a co-design workshop was developed and executed. Participants supported claims that gender scripts in designed artefacts uphold gender norms. The practice did not specify a definition of a queer design style. However, the co-design practice opened up the design process to non-normative gender scripts by unmasking binary gender dichotomies in industrial design.

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Deleuze and Queer Theory

10.3366/edinburgh/9780748634040.001.0001 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Chrysanthi Nigianni ◽

Merl Storr

Keyword(s):

Queer Theory

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Some Things are Worth Losing to Become./? Trans Masculinity|Queer Autoethnography|Where Theory and the Body Collide

Irish University Review ◽

10.3366/iur.2020.0432 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 39-50

Author(s):

Matt Kennedy

Keyword(s):

Queer Theory ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

The Body ◽

Trans People ◽

Family Home

This essay seeks to interrogate what it means to become a legible man as someone who held space as a multiplicity of identities before realising and negotiating my trans manhood. It raises the question of how we as trans people account for the shifting nature of our subjectivity, our embodiment and, indeed, our bodies. This essay locates this dialogue on the site of my body where I have placed many tattoos, which both speak to and inform my understanding of myself as a trans man in Ireland. Queer theory functions as a focal tool within this essay as I question family, home, transition, sexuality, and temporality through a queer autoethnographic reading of the tattoos on my body. This essay pays homage to the intersecting traditions within queer theory and autoethnography. It honours the necessity for the indefinable, for alternative knowledge production and representations, for the space we need in order to become, to allow for the uncertainty of our becoming.

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(Un)Disciplining the Graduate Student, and a Queer Otherwise

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research ◽

10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.2.144 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 144-146

Author(s):

Sean Charles Kenney

Keyword(s):

Organizational Communication ◽

Queer Theory ◽

Graduate Student

This essay reflects on the walkout during the 2019 National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division's Top Paper Panel. I draw upon queer theory to discuss the impacts of disciplinary norms and whiteness in organizational communication.

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Cut, Snap

Journal of Autoethnography ◽

10.1525/joae.2020.1.2.122 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 122-136

Author(s):

Dominic Pecoraro

Keyword(s):

Queer Theory ◽

Interpersonal Communication ◽

Sexual Minority ◽

Coming Out ◽

Communication Theory ◽

Identity Work ◽

Minority Status ◽

Interpersonal Interactions ◽

Queer Identity

Inspired by critical interpersonal communication scholarship and queer autoethnography, this piece depicts interpersonal interactions mute or challenge queer identity. I explore the nexus of interpersonal communication theory, identity work, and queer theory to contextualize coming out and coming into sexual minority status. This piece explores narratives in which the legitimacy of queerness is unaccepted, unassured, and undermined.

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