<i>Skin flint (or, the garbage man's kid)</i>: A generative autobiographical performance based on Tami Spry's<i>tattoo stories</i>

Alexander, Bryant Keith

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“…However, this way of "performing autoethnography" draws from Spry's (2001, p. 709) recommended "process of integrating the 'doing' of autoethnography with critical reflection upon autoethnography as a methodological praxis." This approach understands that the body is a politically inscribed site of meaning making (Alexander, 2000;Spry, 2001). "Informed by recent work in autobiography, autoethnographic methods recognise the reflections and refractions of multiple selves in contexts that arguably transform the authorial 'I' to an existential 'we'" (Spry, 2001, p. 711).…”

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Learning How Language is Used in Higher Education to Strategically Marginalise Female, Queer, and Gender Non-Conforming People: An Autoethnographic Account

Vanyoro

2020

Educ. res. soc. change.

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In this article, I examine how language informs the systemic and structural manner in which the university space not only marginalises, but also exploits female and gender nonconforming people. I base my account on my experiences in two universities in southern Africa-one in Zimbabwe and the other in South Africa. I aim to show how gender and sexuality borders can be permeated by gaining critical awareness of the working of power and privilege in language that normalises the oppression of one by the other. I do this through a reflective autoethnographic account of the temporal trajectories involved in my experience as an academic of gender and sexuality in universities. I explore the notion of university as a social site where power relations of privilege and marginality can be found to be vivid if not violent. I reflect on my positionality and complicity in exploitative power relations in the university. I also make use of #FeesMustFall diaries as archival data to account for dynamics of exclusion. Theoretically, the article employs the colonial matrix of power to show how coloniality upholds gender and sexuality norms in universities and academics. The purpose of this paper is not to propose strategies for other institutions to use for unlearning pedagogies. Rather, the role of the paper is to document my and others' experiences of how heteropatriarchy manifests in the language used in the lecture room and beyond. In conclusion, the article shows how the author found critical diversity literacy, a learning pedagogy that promotes discomfort, helpful in realising the complicity of language in dominance.

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Learning How Language is Used in Higher Education to Strategically Marginalise Female, Queer, and Gender Non-Conforming People: An Autoethnographic Account

Vanyoro

2020

Educ. res. soc. change.

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“…2. In this performance, we continue a methodology of collaborative autoethnography (Alexander, Moreira, & kumar, 2012) in which we engage the generative quality of autoethnography to stimulate and simulate the critical reflexive processes of audience members in the very process of audiencing (Alexander, 2000). The following text was completed through a cyclical process of triggered narratives-each cycle in the text contains performance snippets that evoke the next cycle, with each writer responding and performing as sparked individually by the preceding teller, without discussion between writers in between cycles.…”

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The Good, the Better, and the Beautiful

kumar

Moreira

2012

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This coperformed autoethnographic inquiry explores “the West” as both a seductive and a subjugating narrative terrain on which betweener identities must navigate the colonizing structures of Western epistemologies. On this terrain, we collaboratively engage the metaphors and tropes of “Cowboys” and “Indians” within a broader critique of knowledge production in the Western academy. As a decolonizing performance, our journey invites a collective turning of the academic gaze away from objectifying the Other and toward making Western systems of knowledge themselves the objects of inquiry.

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“…In the last decade, queer African Americans have 'increasingly spoken of the specificity of their marginalization (Alexander, 2000;Julien & Mercer, 1991); queer Asians have also sorted through their particular affairs by means of scholarship (Eng, 1997); similarly, queer Hispanics have documented their unique struggles both in and out of academia (Arrizon, 1999;Munoz, 1999). While the growing field of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered scholarship appears promising (Dolan, 2002;Patton, 1993;Sedgwick, 1993;Warner, 1993Warner, , 2001, many factions of the queer community remain woefully overlooked, most notably older gay men.…”

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Gay Grows Up

Fox

2007

Journal of Homosexuality

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This study is based upon qualitative research conducted with the Phoenix chapter of the Prime Timers, a social organization that offers older men in the gay community a space to communicate their general needs and desires. Using data collected through participant observation and informant interviews, the research demonstrates the ways in which the group's affiliates respond to queer sensibilities. The analysis argues that intergenerational communication is fettered by age stereotypes that generate communicative boundaries between young and old members of the gay community. The report then suggests that age-based breakdowns in communication prevalent in the gay community are further advanced by a difference in intergenerational approaches to survival.

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Skin flint (or, the garbage man's kid): A generative autobiographical performance based on Tami Spry'stattoo stories

Cited by 45 publications

References 9 publications

Learning How Language is Used in Higher Education to Strategically Marginalise Female, Queer, and Gender Non-Conforming People: An Autoethnographic Account

Learning How Language is Used in Higher Education to Strategically Marginalise Female, Queer, and Gender Non-Conforming People: An Autoethnographic Account

The Good, the Better, and the Beautiful

Gay Grows Up

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