What is it about?
The paper is a collaborative exploration of the author's feelings and experiences around their own gender diversity, in relation to their non-heterosexual sexual orientations, partnerships with trans people, and how they were assigned at birth.
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Why is it important?
Most scholarship around sexuality assumes that it's easy and obvious to infer the bodies and identities of the people who 'gay men' and 'lesbian women' are attracted to, have relationships with, etc. Work that has looked at trans people's experiences of relationships has overwhelmingly focused on trans people in relationships with cis people. Our work has aimed to challenge cis-centricity in the study of sexuality, offering a novel exploration of the relationship between gendered identity negotiation, desire, and their associated politics.
Perspectives
Duoethnography was a really exciting and innovative method to explore and use. I intended this paper to offer both a methodological and theoretical contributions, while also being significant on a personal level because of the intimate entanglement between my personal and professional lives.
Dr Ben Vincent
Open University
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This page is a summary of: Gender, love, and sex: Using duoethnography to research gender and sexuality minority experiences of transgender relationships, Sexualities, November 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1363460718796457.
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