Only be sure always to call it please ‘research’
Just a little more on Dr Gina Gwenffrewi: what you learn if you click on the Research button.
The study of global transgender female identities and their representation in the arts and media. This includes a particular focus on trans female identities excluded from mainstream trans narratives in the Global North, and their relationship with structural inequalities connected to socio-economics, nationality, and race and ethnicity. Methodologically, I draw on Lacanian/post-Lacanian thinkers, from Jacques Lacan to Julia Kristeva, Jacqueline Rose, and Judith Butler. However, my work currently is hugely informed by and indebted to perspectives gained from the scenes of trans artists of colour especially in North America, including persectives on race and socio-economics from writers/artists such as Jamie Berrout, Janet Mock, Fabian Romero, Reina Gossett, CeCe McDonald, and generally the output of Oakland-based editor and artist Nia King. Increasingly, and complementary to my focus on race and socio-economics, my work is influenced by the insights on intersections of trans/queer experience with race and class of Joao Gabriell, Sara Ahmed, Michelle Davies, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and specifically in relation to global economics and their impact on trans communities, of William Davies and Naomi Klein.
That’s the Research summary. Under Current research interests we find:
Currently, one new area of my research is informed by the global backlash against trans rights and the discourses of trans-exclusionary ideologies. My current research on the period especially of 2017-2021, focuses on Scotland, the U.K., and the broader Anglophone Global North. This includes the media furore surrounding Gender Recognition Act reform, and the media storms involving the social media output of the writer JK Rowling. More broadly, my research area of Trans Media Studies interrogates the interplay of patriarchal trans-exclusionary ideologies within the national media and politics, and the gender-critical movement. On a further, related area, an increasingly significant area of focus for my research is the impact of online radicalization on trans-exclusionary ideologies. My research accordingly draws on the work in Trans Media Studies of TJ Billard, as well as Julia Serano and Talia Mae Bettcher. Somewhat separately, and building on my PhD thesis, my future research will also continue to focus on the impact of neoliberalism on trans bodies. This includes via the works of disempowered QTPOC communities, and the output of activists such as Jamie Berrout and CeCe McDonald, and the gap between more empowered LGBT+ institutions, which reflect white, middle-class issues, and the politics of prison abolition, defunding the police, anti-imperialism, and leftist-driven social justice movements with a more intersectional focus dealing with multiple sources of oppression. Accordingly, my research draws on the academic work of Dan Irving, Dean Spade, Tourmaline, and Eric Stanley, as well as Angela Davis, Sara Ahmed, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
Sounds like research in the archives of Twitter, doesn’t it.
Jeez Louise, how much more patriarchal can you get than an ideology that says men own women’s spaces and everything belonging to women, and women aren’t allowed to say or do anything about it without silencing and other severe consequences, like loss of employment, being cheated out of prizes, and the like? It’s the actual women who are fine with breaking the stereotypes of patriarchy, who say that butch women are still women, they are not wrong-bodied men. Sheesh. The “patriarchy” shoe is on the wrong damn foot.
Women are the new patriarchs. Bitches.
Purity spiral alert! Are “trans” eating their own? And not a moment too soon!
I don’t know where they get this idea that after the glorious communist revolution, all trans comrades will be given all the hormones and surgeries they want free of charge, but they sure do have it.
I’m genuinely not sure what to make of this. Partly because of the word salad, but mostly because my usually reliable bullshit meter for some reason failed and there’s cogs and springs all over the floor. Have you ever trod on one of those little cogs in sock feet? Lego has nothing on it. Anyway, If someone could give me a pointer I’d appreciate it.
a bunch of people, mostly men, who are in denial about their own sex and are heavily confused on the subjects of sex and feminism.
Sounds like really intense fandom with academic-sounding words thrown in.
Always appreciate a Tom Lehrer reference.
Same.
My own former PhD advisor used to call these examples of writing “hairballs” and she would occasionally leave an example in my office, with a little wad of cat fur taped to them.
Hahahahahaha I love that.
Gorgeous! Of course these days an advisor doing that would be pilloried for the literal violence and deep emotional harm inflicted by such actions. My advisor was a quietly spoken man and I wish he’d engaged a little more. But when he said “not good” or “really” I paid attention. When he said “that’s nice work” I knew he meant it. I detest the writing style present in much of academia these days. It both obscures and depresses with its ugliness.