Intentionality and Disidentification: The Construction of Trans*Masculinities Among College Students

• In Event: Roundtable Session 27
  In Roundtable Session: Issues of Identity Navigation and Construction Among Queer Youth

Abstract

Men and masculinities studies in higher education are gaining prominence within the literature, illuminating how cisgender men understand and grapple with masculinity on college campuses. Additionally, the increased visibility of trans* students has fueled the expanding scholarship and attention to their experiences, often however centering on White gender-conforming trans* students with little if any focus on their multiple and intersecting identities. This post-intentional phenomenological study seeks to bridge these two areas of literature, by investigating how trans*masculine students understand, define, and adopt a masculine identity, and how that identity is informed by their various intersecting and salient identities.

Author

• T.J. Jourian, Loyola University Chicago