1st Edition

Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography Embodied Theorizing from the Margins

Edited By Amber L. Johnson, Benny LeMaster Copyright 2020
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
 

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

Biography

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.