Andreasen, Maria Clemens

Holubko, Stefania

This project investigates which everyday struggles people with a nonbinary gender identity go through. Taking platform in Kate Bornstein’s book Gender Outlaw (1994) and Judith Butler’s notions of the heterosexual matrix and punishment, the purpose is to cover how these people go through their everyday lives, where something as simple as using a public restroom forces them to question their gender identity. In addition we use Judith/Jack Halberstam’s concept of passing to further investigate how these people navigate in social situations without getting punished. The project is based on qualitative interviews with three different people who have a nonbinary gender identity. They provide their narratives and via these we try to analyze how our informants construct their gender identities – and navigate their lives. Our results show that there are many different ways to identify one’s gender in the category of being nonbinary. Furthermore we conclude that our informants have very different experiences in their everyday lives, and that this might be connected to how radical they are in their opinion on gender. In order to survive they use different coping strategies to navigate in society.This project investigates which everyday struggles people with a nonbinary gender identity go through. Taking platform in Kate Bornstein’s book Gender Outlaw (1994) and Judith Butler’s notions of the heterosexual matrix and punishment, the purpose is to cover how these people go through their everyday lives, where something as simple as using a public restroom forces them to question their gender identity. In addition we use Judith/Jack Halberstam’s concept of passing to further investigate how these people navigate in social situations without getting punished. The project is based on qualitative interviews with three different people who have a nonbinary gender identity. They provide their narratives and via these we try to analyze how our informants construct their gender identities – and navigate their lives. Our results show that there are many different ways to identify one’s gender in the category of being nonbinary. Furthermore we conclude that our informants have very different experiences in their everyday lives, and that this might be connected to how radical they are in their opinion on gender. In order to survive they use different coping strategies to navigate in society

Nonbinære kønsidentiteter i Danmark: Om at passere og ikke passere

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