1268 - Trans and Non-Binary Sexualities

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Prevailing understandings of sexuality are rooted in dichotomous and static gender and sex categories. These dichotomies erase trans and non-binary forms of gender and sexuality and, as such, eclipse the possibility of fully exploring the nuance and complexity of the connections between non-binary and trans experiences of embodiment, gender, and sexuality. This obscures the role of power structures such as cis-and-mono-normativity in shaping societal approaches to gender and sexuality.

This panel will focus on the unique juncture between trans and non-binary forms of gender and sexuality; asking how expanding our understanding of trans and non-binary gender impacts the various ways we explore and interrogate sexuality, and the ways that various non-binary sexualities impact our understanding of trans and non-binary experience, expression, and embodiment.

Sub Unit

• Section on Sociology of Sexualities / Trans and Non-Binary Sexualities

Session Organizer

• Lain A.B. Mathers, University of Illinois at Chicago

Presider

• B.B. Buchanan, University of California-Davis

Individual Presentations

• But Am I a Woman? Dimensions of Sexual and Gender Fluidity among LGBTQ+ Millennials - Bailey Troia

• (Dis)Owning Exotic: Navigating Race, Intimacy, and Trans Identity - Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Florida State University

• Redoing Sexuality - Helana Darwin, State University of New York-Stony Brook

• They’re Not the Same Thing: Analyzing Methods of Meaning Making for Pansexual Individuals - Ashley Green

Discussant

• J. E. Sumerau, University of Tampa