User:Moonmocha/Choose an Article

Option 1: Trans Communication - Cisheteronormativity

 * Section Overview

This section should include information about cisheteronormativy and how it is manifested in our communication and perpetuated by our culture. Additionally, it should include trans studies and critiques of the field. Just from looking at the research, we will have to talk a lot about gender and sexuality, which may be obvious just by reading our topic title. One word I saw a lot while looking at research articles is the word multiplicity, along with heterosexism.


 * Topic Focus

One topic of research that should be in this section is information about cisheteronormativity. Cisheteronormativity is the belief that all people identify with the gender that corresponds to the one that they were given at birth and that they also identify as heterosexual. This is the belief that cisgendered heterosexual people are the most natural identities and that people automatically identify with that identity. It is important to trans communication because cisheteronormativity erases the possibility that someone would want to identify as any other gender than the one that they have at birth.


 * Source(s)

I would like to include the article Unlearning the Violence of the Normative by Benny LeMaster. This article by LeMaster first talks about the harmful impacts of heteronormativity against LGBTQ+ people and society as a whole, including internalized violence, externalized violence, discursive violence, and institutional violence. After this, LeMaster describes that to heal from heteronormativity, you have to unpack it, so he includes some conversations about heteronormativity. I think this source would be productive to use because it involves a lot of thorough analysis about what heteronormativity is and the real-world impacts of it.

Potential Current Wikipedia Article(s)

Heteronormativity

Heteropatriarchy

Option 2: Trans Communication - Cisheteronormativity

 * Section Overview

See option 1.


 * Topic Focus

This article also focuses on cisheteronormativity which I described in option 1 above. This article does have a different focus though because it is mostly talking about inclusive education and how authority figures should challenge heteronormativity in their classrooms. However, it does have the same relative themes and still teaches about cisheteronormativity.

Source(s)
I would like to include the article Bridging Privacy, Face, and Heteronormativity: Stories of Coming out by Dominic Pecoraro. This article takes a look at what it means to coming out, contextualizing the experience, and links privacy, face, and heteronormativity to interpersonal interactions associated with coming out. This article also gives succinct definitions of what heteronormativity is and also talks about the harmful impacts of heteronormativity. A few impacts included denials of queer utterances, blatant threats, microaggressions, and downplaying one's sexuality. I think this article would also be helpful because it does describe the consequences and harmful effects of heteronormativity on people. It is very thorough and I like its lens of analysis.

Potential Current Wikipedia Article(s)

Inclusive classroom

Education and the LGBT community

Section Overview
See option 1.

Topic Focus
This section focuses on trans communication specifically and communication surrounding people who do not necessarily identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. This includes trans and gender-diverse individuals, so this can include non-binary individuals.

Source(s)
I want to include the article 'If you don't "pass" as cis, you don't exist'. The trans audience's reproofs of 'Cis Gaze' and transnormativity in TV series by Isabel Simon, Juan Soriana, and Rafael Ventura. This article talks about the trans and LGBTQ+ terms, the way they are portrayed in the media, and how it affects its trans audience. It for example talks about how many trans characters in Spanish TV have been portrayed as negative stereotypes with high presences of mockery and alienation. It also thoroughly talks about transnormativity and the 'cis gaze.' I think this article is written very well and covers trans communication well and therefore would be great to use.

Potential Current Wikipedia Article(s)
 * Transnormativity
 * Gender neutrality