User:OsaRosa/10. LGBTQ Performance Studies and Autoethnography

Areas of LGBTQ+ Communication Studies
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LGBTQ+ Performance Studies and Autoethnographic Inquiry
Performance studies and autoethnographers study LGBTQ+ communication experiences. (source) Performance studies shows communication through personal narrative about their perspective and ongoing experiences. Autoethnography uses the researchers own personal experiences to communicate and connect their encounters, beliefs, and practices. (source)

LGBTQ+ Performance Studies
Performance studies is an area of Communication Studies that has turned towards more personal narratives and performance to analyze communication. Performance studies on LGBTQ+ communication shows that personal narrative is based on theorizing perspective and ongoing experiences. In both performance studies and autoethnographic inquiry, no one’s narrative is put above someone else’s, and dialogues within the narratives representation an individual experience there for it “stands on its own”

LGBTQ+ Drag and Performance Studies
Queer performance, like drag, was not made from a desire to perform, but as an act of resistance. Performance through drag sought to become this resistance by being a spectacle and to grab the attention of audience members and make queer people be seen through this.

One drag was made popular through TV shows like "RuPaul's Drag Race" became popular, drag has transitioned from something made to be a resistance piece of art to something now meant for entertainment for cisheteronormative society. Cisheteronormativity is defined and understood by LGBTQ+ rhetors as the institutions that uphold heteronormativity and cis-normativity.

Performance research has explored how transgender women are impacted by modern drag because of the cis and hetero normative standards of modern drag, furthermore, it places transwomen into a new box of cisheteropatriarchalism, which is the idea and concept of institutions made for cisgender and heterosexual and the oppression they have instilled on members of the LGBTQ+ community. LGBTQ+ Communication Scholars further this by discussing the racial oppressions that is then compounded for trans Asian women and how their patriarchal standards held to them is harsher by not only having transitioned, something heavily frowned on in a large section of Asian households, but now it is amplified through drag performance, leading many of them to feel more shame from their families.

Through drag not only do drag performers have a community within themselves but they are also a central part of LGBTQ+ communities across the world with language and performative communication that was originally used by drag performers and is now more broadly used. Drag as performance is something that has been done for centuries, and its history provides an archive on queer performance and existence showcasing protest, strength, and resistance.

LGBTQ+ Autoethnography and Communication
Autoethnography is a form of academic writing where the author draws from their lived experiences. LGBTQ+ Communication Scholars utilize autoethnography when queer and trans scholars write about their experiences. Queer communication scholarship has utilized personal queer stories about HIV and what is like from a personal experience versus a doctor’s input to provide better health communication practices. Gay men who think they might have HIV can fear getting tested because they are worried that the doctor is going to tell people. Autoethnography uses personal experiences to better support stressful health communication encounters and to show real people’s experiences before and after they take an HIV test.

LGBTQ+ Poetic Inquiry
Poetic inquiry is a method that incorporates poetry and personal narratives to explore and embrace various identities and experiences. ‘Poetic' refers to an art that crafts words “to describe threshold moments,” which are ways of interpreting the world, sense and perception, as well as an art of one’s self. Poetic inquiry is a type of research communication and performance scholars use to examine lyrical and performative inquiry via poetry.

Poetic inquiry utilizes lyrical and performative modes and narrative modes of inquiry in order to promote multifaceted ways of knowing and expressing. Poetic inquiry in communication allows researchers to use poetry to analyze text and narratives. Research has called for other future communication scholars to use performative writing to understand and embrace queer culture as a whole from a holistic perspective. By intertwining academic and scholarly writing with poetry and personal narrative, scholars show how queer of color people reflect on the impact of their heritage.