Exploring Post-Modernist Gender Through an Individualistic Lens
Disciplines
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Women's Studies
Abstract (300 words maximum)
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.
Academic department under which the project should be listed
Other
Primary Investigator (PI) Name
Letizia Guglielmo
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.