Exploring Post-Modernist Gender Through an Individualistic Lens
Primary Investigator (PI) Name
Letizia Guglielmo
Department
Other
Abstract
While the separation of gender and sex is a well-researched topic, there is less information on the post-modernist identities that have resulted from the rejection of the heteronormative. Furthermore, the research that is there does little to account for the diverse and individualistic characteristics of post-modernist identity and instead attempts to look at these identities through a definitive lens. Through interviews with people within several diverse online LGBTQIA+ communities, I explore the possibility that gender is uniquely individualistic and diverse even within the confines of the defined terms that make up post-modernist identity. This view on gender attempts to separate from not just the binary but the conclusive instead embracing the uniquely queer experience that is self-identity and how it is affected but not rigidly dictated by social terminology.
Disciplines
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Women's Studies
Exploring Post-Modernist Gender Through an Individualistic Lens
While the separation of gender and sex is a well-researched topic, there is less information on the post-modernist identities that have resulted from the rejection of the heteronormative. Furthermore, the research that is there does little to account for the diverse and individualistic characteristics of post-modernist identity and instead attempts to look at these identities through a definitive lens. Through interviews with people within several diverse online LGBTQIA+ communities, I explore the possibility that gender is uniquely individualistic and diverse even within the confines of the defined terms that make up post-modernist identity. This view on gender attempts to separate from not just the binary but the conclusive instead embracing the uniquely queer experience that is self-identity and how it is affected but not rigidly dictated by social terminology.