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"Jag är bara mig själv." - En intervjustudie med ikkebinære personers forståelser av plass, fellesskap og glede i møte med (ikke)eksistens og utenforskap

Ween Petersen, Embla LU (2025) GNVK22 20251
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract
This bachelor thesis explores nonbinary people’s experiences of joy and community, as well as how we are affected by social exclusion, anti-gender ideology, unintelligibility, and questions about whether nonbinary people actually exist. The aim of the thesis is to contribute to crucial efforts to amplify the voices and experiences of nonbinary people. Through interviews with five nonbinary people between the ages of twenty and thirty-five years old, I explore how nonbinary people can be constructed as somehow unintelligible, non-human, or even non-existent. Queer theory, transfeminism, and theories of place inform my analysis, which reveals how nonbinary bodies and lives are affected not only by social exclusion but also community and joy.... (More)
This bachelor thesis explores nonbinary people’s experiences of joy and community, as well as how we are affected by social exclusion, anti-gender ideology, unintelligibility, and questions about whether nonbinary people actually exist. The aim of the thesis is to contribute to crucial efforts to amplify the voices and experiences of nonbinary people. Through interviews with five nonbinary people between the ages of twenty and thirty-five years old, I explore how nonbinary people can be constructed as somehow unintelligible, non-human, or even non-existent. Queer theory, transfeminism, and theories of place inform my analysis, which reveals how nonbinary bodies and lives are affected not only by social exclusion but also community and joy. Nonbinary people can feel alienated by cis-, hetero- and transnormativity, but the participants in this thesis illustrate how joyful community can become a site of resistance, a way of feeling more at home, and, ultimately, the basis for more
hopeful futures. (Less)
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author
Ween Petersen, Embla LU
supervisor
organization
course
GNVK22 20251
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Ikkebinær, Trans, Fellesskap, Glede, Uforståelighet, Nonbinary, Community, Joy, Unintelligibility, Gemenskap, Ickebinär, Glädje, Oförståelighet
language
Norwegian
id
9206032
date added to LUP
2025-06-30 10:34:12
date last changed
2025-07-02 14:00:52
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  abstract     = {{This bachelor thesis explores nonbinary people’s experiences of joy and community, as well as how we are affected by social exclusion, anti-gender ideology, unintelligibility, and questions about whether nonbinary people actually exist. The aim of the thesis is to contribute to crucial efforts to amplify the voices and experiences of nonbinary people. Through interviews with five nonbinary people between the ages of twenty and thirty-five years old, I explore how nonbinary people can be constructed as somehow unintelligible, non-human, or even non-existent. Queer theory, transfeminism, and theories of place inform my analysis, which reveals how nonbinary bodies and lives are affected not only by social exclusion but also community and joy. Nonbinary people can feel alienated by cis-, hetero- and transnormativity, but the participants in this thesis illustrate how joyful community can become a site of resistance, a way of feeling more at home, and, ultimately, the basis for more
hopeful futures.}},
  author       = {{Ween Petersen, Embla}},
  language     = {{nor}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{"Jag är bara mig själv." - En intervjustudie med ikkebinære personers forståelser av plass, fellesskap og glede i møte med (ikke)eksistens og utenforskap}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}