Gautham Warrier, Teaching Fellow, Sociology and Social Anthropology, SIAS presented their paper at the 9th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA), held from 14-18 July. The paper, ‘Reflections and Portraits: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Trans*-Queer Orientations and Reconstitutions in Binary-Gendered Spaces’ was presented in the panel titled “Rompendo Véus: (re)existências e vivências de corpos subversives*” translated in English as “Breaking Veils: (Re)existences and Lived Experiences of Subversive Bodies”.
The paper examined the existence, negotiation, and navigation of trans*-queer bodyminds through dis/orientations in spacetimes that are often rooted in cisgender and heteronormative binaries. The paper explored this topic through methods drawn from autoethnography, digital archival cultures, and through conversations with works such as Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology (2006) and Logan Smilges’s Queer Silence (2022), as well as with practices from trans* and queer life-writing.
