Gendered and liminal spaces, and binary policing.

Part 1 - in conversation with  Meryn Cadell.

In which we discuss:  

• Transcribing interviews - Meryn serving as a research credibility check (“God, that came up again…”) when I came to analyze the data from interviews with 25 Unbound Leaders. 
• Research as creating meaning together, transparently. 
• The power of visibility, and a reflective process as non-binary, queers in the world, and workplace.  The concept of the embodiment and the nexus of misogyny and homophobia. 
• The research interview process as transformative experiences - a sense of bonding to each other. 
• Bathrooms as liminal spaces where binary expectations are enforced and policed, and how it is navigated and mitigated in relation to gender in heteronormative spaces (and in relation to J Halberstrom’s Female Masculinity).  Solution to the bathroom and gender policing is discussed. 
• Being non-binary and queer in hyper-feminized and heteronormative workplaces and erasure and/or hyper-sexualization.

Link to NB Research Project Tedx-style talk - https://www.nbresearchproject.com/research