Gender Futurity Intersectional Autoethnography

<p><b>Awards</b></p><p><b>Innovator Award for Outstanding Edited Collection Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Caucus Central States Communication Association 2023.</b></p><p><b>Outstanding Book in Performance Studies and Autoethnography Performance Studies and Autoethnography Division Central States Communication Association 2023.</b></p><p><b>Book of the Year Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender and Queer Communication Studies Division National Communication Association 2022.</b></p><p><b>Book of the Year Ethnography Division National Communication Association 2020.</b></p><p><em>Gender Futurity Intersectional Autoethnography</em> showcases a collection of narrative and autoethnographic research that unpacks the complexity of gender at its intersections i.e. by ability race sexuality religion beauty geography spatiality community performance politics socio-economic status education and many other markers of difference.</p><p>The book focuses on gender as it is lived chaperoned and chaperones other social identity categories. It tells stories that reveal problematic gender binaries promising gender futures and everything in between—they ask us to rethink what we assume to be true real and normal about gender identity and expression. Each essay written by both gender variant and cisgender scholars explores cultural phenomena that create space for us to re-imagine re-think and create new ways of being.</p><p>This book will be useful for undergraduate postgraduate and professional degree students particularly in the fields of gender studies qualitative methods and communication theory.</p>