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QUEERING SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH: USING LIVE METHODS TO EXPLORE GENDER…
QUEERING SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH: USING LIVE METHODS TO EXPLORE GENDER DIVERSITY THROUGH ART
FINDINGS' ANALYSIS
How can genderqueerness help us rethink knowledge-production practices?
Emphasis on Collective knowledge (How knowledge can be built by trans* community, who can create knowledge, for who?)
Queer methods rethinking knowledge-production practices and research methods in political project of queering
Challenging our epistemologies (rethinking our ways of knowing, how we learn things, who has access to certain kinds of knowledge?, why are we taught a certain way?, trans teaches us to always wonder about our knowledge production practices)
Understanding humans more hollistically (individual representation beyond gender binaries, collective communities, rethinking normality of everyday life and our identities, who we really are and who we were taught to be)
Decentering heteronomative cisgendernormative frameworks (of power, of knowledge production, of gender roles, of politics, of law making, of work, of education..)
Rethinking historical knowledge (absence of trans* does not mean we did not exist, erasure of materials, paying attention to absences in archives and silences in texts, replacing contemporary trans into context and valuying past activist)
Close relationship to nature (queerness and being rooted in nature, less exploitative modernist urbanised spaces, fluidity of identity, unfixed, always evolving, patience, resourcefulness of community, trust in each other)
INTERVIEW PROMPTS
Why do we make trans* art?
For others, to inspire, raise awareness, to educate, make other feel seen
To understand ourselves (identity complexity, multitude of possibilities, questioning processes)
POlitical aim (destablise norms, challenge existing rhetoric on transness, disrupt power structures, and discrimination, account for oppression)
Collective value (connect, find one another, build community)
Historical evidence (to remember us, for community resource purposes, resistane to time and erasure)
Personal identity representation (self-expression, uniqueness, beauty, value in self, claiming ourself)
Activism (representing trans
as form of existence, disrupting power, agency, grieving trans
losses
How is trans* art political?
Resistance (to historical erasure, political restriction, discrimination in society, abuse, claiming our various identities)
Highlighting pressures and oppression (abuse, discrmination, lack of representation, misinformation, misrepresentation, minority groups)
Educatiional media (educating youth and others, medics, teachers, politicians..., other trans* people)
Questioning societal practices (making audience question what they already know, put themselves in shoes of trans* people, what if it was them? what if it what their child? rethinking barriers to political legal social education workplace..)
What is trans* art?
Messy
Colourful
Multi-media
voices, pictures, testimonies, places, people, objects, drawings
songs, poems, writings, speeches, dances, drag, performances