Essays about: "nonbinary identities"

Found 4 essays containing the words nonbinary identities.

  1. 1. Damned if you do, damned if you don't : How nonbinary students navigate identity in higher education

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Amanda Berglund; [2023]
    Keywords : cisnormativity; nonbinary; nonbinary identities; non-binary; Sweden; higher education; microaggressions; gender minority stress;

    Abstract : The gender binary is a pervasive idea in society which suggests that there only exist two genders – man and woman. The wide array of differing gender identities would suggest otherwise. Identifying as nonbinary means that you reject the gender binary and identify somewhere between, in both, or beyond the binary. READ MORE

  3. 2. Medicalizing Me Softly: An Autoethnography of Refusal

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Han Amm; [2022]
    Keywords : transmedicalism; truscum; transnormativity; nonbinary; autoethnography; refusal; liminality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This autoethnographic study explores intra-community discursive boundary constructions around the category of transgender articulated by truscum trans men on Reddit. It does so through reflections on how the author negotiates the medical model of trans, his own gender identity, the medico-juridical interlock governing access to trans healthcare and trans livability, and tensions of closeness/distance to those they interview. READ MORE

  4. 3. The recognition of the nonbinary gender : A socio-legal analysis of the third gender legislation in Malta and Germany

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

    Author : Maria Kriva; [2019]
    Keywords : nonbinary; intersex; third gender legislation;

    Abstract : The binary conception of gender as solely male or female has had a great impact to nonbinary and intersex people in the societal and legal field. Their ability to enjoy human rights is impacted by the current normative confines of sex and gender. READ MORE

  5. 4. Gäris and ickebinäris: Exploring a Swedish Gender-Separatist Group on Facebook

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Sofia Hedberg; [2018]
    Keywords : gender separatism; Facebook; social media; feminism; safe space; mundane citizenship;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the experience of participating in a ‘hidden’ gender separatist forum for women and nonbinary persons on Facebook. It does so through a case study of a group called Växtgäris, which constitutes one link in a chain of gender separatist forums established on Swedish Facebook in recent years, whose names all end with -gäris. READ MORE