queering the trans masculinity archive in the digital age: a grassroots initiative
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QUEERING THE TRANS MASCULINITY ARCHIVE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: A GRASSROOTS INITIATIVE. Zowie Davy –[email protected] Fiona Philip – [email protected]. Man_______??_______??_______??_________??_________??________Woman - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
QUEERING THE TRANS MASCULINITY
ARCHIVE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: A GRASSROOTS INITIATIVE
Zowie Davy –[email protected]
Fiona Philip – [email protected]
Man_______??_______??_______??_________??_________??
________Woman
Trans man, butch, transmasculine identified, FtM, androgyne,
genderqueer
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erformance suggests that we are able to don the way we
want our audience to understand us, to provide as many
cues as possible to illustrate our gender perhaps
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erformativity is when we are called into ‘existence’ by a
prevailing and precursory discourse
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hat gets blocked even as the supposedly repressed
or once disallowed enjoy a new stage? (Biddy Martin,
1996)
Open access storytelling & the community archive
The AHRC- funded project, Pararchive, based at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, seeks to build new interactive environments that explore issues of ownership, public and institutional relationships and provide tools for collaborative research and creative expression with public archives.
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Ellis (& Symonds): ‘Sexual Inversion (1896)
Ellis defined inversion as: ‘sexual instinct turned by inborn constitutional abnormality toward persons of the same sex’.
He also averred that: ‘The commonest characteristic of the sexually inverted woman is a certain degree of masculinity or boyishness.’
So, central to sexual inversion was gender inversion
Annie Winifred Ellerman (1894-1983)
Modernist impresario, poet, film-maker, critic & (historical) novelist.
In 1919, having met with Havelock Ellis for the first time, Bryher wrote to H.D.:
“Then we got to the question of whether I was a boy sort of escaped into the wrong body and he [Ellis] says it is a disputed subject but quite possible and showed me a book about it . . . we agreed it was most unfair for it to happen but apparently I am quite justified in pleading I ought to be a boy, - I am just a girl by accident.”
QUESTIONS
What would you include in the archive, and why?
What terms & labels would you use to describe these
a artefacts?
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ho would have access to the archive?
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hat could be done with the artefacts?
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hat would you call your archive?
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hat other questions or issues have cropped
up?
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