Honors College Thesis
 

Beyond the Binary: Multimodal Oral Histories of Navigating Gender and Finding Identity from Gender-Diverse and Cisgender Students

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  • Despite increasing visibility of queer people, oftentimes queer people do not have agency in sharing their own stories, and these stories have historically not been stored in archives. In order to begin reparative work in this area, I collected ten interviews from individuals across the gender spectrum focusing on how they came to understand and embody their gender through the sharing of their lived experience and and through discussion of an object they chose to represent their gender. Though each person’s gender and oral history is uniquely their own, common themes emerge from these interviews, including 1) a feeling of constraint around other queer people who enforce the binary; 2) the idea of gender as fun; 3) the importance of finding support for gender exploration among the participant’s community, partner, or in online spaces; and 4) and various conceptualizations of gender as a role or a bodily feeling. Some people did not identify in the interview the same way they did in the survey I used for recruitment purposes, which exemplifies the fact that gender is not well suited for quantitative research, and is more complicated than something that can be described in one or two words.
  • Keywords: Gender, queer identity, transgender, gender diverse, cisgender, queer archives, oral history, interview
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  • OSU Queer Archives Oral History Collection
  • LGBTQ+ Voices
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