Unbound Leadership - GNC/NB Research Project
This doctoral research explores the hidden workplace structures of homophobic binary expectations and enforcement, and how these constructs affect the working lives of gender non-conforming and non-binary lesbians/queers. From the bathroom to the boardroom and most work spaces in between, non-binary and gender non-conforming lesbians/queers face discrimination and harassment stemming from assumptions and prejudices arising from their gender presentation.This qualitative research project used a constructivist grounded theory approach to gain insights from 25 gender non-conforming and non-binary lesbians/queers on their workplace experiences. Learn more at https://www.nbresearchproject.com/
Unbound Leadership - GNC/NB Research Project
Gendered and liminal spaces, and binary policing.
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Michelle Hamilton-Page
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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