Irina Schmitt
Senior lecturer
Expectations of cisnormative purity: Intersectional negotiations of gender identity in Swedish schools
Author
Summary, in English
Drawing on a qualitative interview study with 13 trans and nonbinary young people and young adults, this presentation argues that schools and teachers express a desire for cisnormative purity in their interactions with gender nonconforming students. Based in transfeminist knowledge production, this presentation is guided by Maria Lugones’ discussion of the politics of purity as a tool of gendered oppression based in coloniality, and the analysis of cisnormativity, the normative productions of gendered otherness. Following Lugones, I will discuss the negotiations of cisnormative purity not only as the moments of oppression they are, but also as moments of negotiation and hope.
Department/s
- Department of Gender Studies
Publishing year
2022
Language
English
Document type
Conference paper: abstract
Topic
- Gender Studies
Keywords
- trans
- ickebinär
- skola
- cisnormativitet
- renhet
- intersektionalitet
- Sverige
- genus
- trans
- transgender
- nonbinary
- school
- Sweden
- cisnormative
- purity
- intersectional
- gender
Conference name
g22: Den femte nationella konferensen för genusforskning i Sverige
Conference date
2022-10-26 - 2022-10-28
Conference place
Karlstad, Sweden
Status
Unpublished