Transmasculinities in Nonbinary Autobiographical Writing
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Gender Studies |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2023-0003 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/genst-2023-0003 |
| Keywords | transmasculinities; masculinities; queerness; nonbinary; genderqueer; life writing; autobiographical writing; nonbinary parenting; identity |
| Description | This article discusses the representations and narratives of transmasculinities in selected works by contemporary Anglophone nonbinary writers assigned female at birth. After briefly introducing the primary sources, I explain how this selection of texts allows for an analysis that contributes to widening the conventional conceptualisation of masculinities as related only to biological men and trans men, and I specify the kinds of masculinities discussed in the article. I then concentrate on three prominently featured themes in the analysed narratives: rejection and erasure within the lesbian and feminist communities, confusion caused by the authors’ identities in their everyday lives, and nonbinary parenting-related issues. Exploring how the authors write about these themes illuminates not only how they textually construct their diverse masculinities but also some of the key challenges they navigate: identity unintelligibility, invisibility, and the threat of involuntary complicity in the patriarchal order. |
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