This thesis examines how archives and archival pedagogy can be used to increase the visibility and availability of LGBTQ-history. The aim of this thesis is to explore how archival pedagogy can be used to benefit LGBT-people’s identity formation and what role(s) archives could offer. The thesis is based in textual analysis combined with a visit at QRAB, Sweden’s only LGBTQ archive, and research into the kind of archival materials available. It uses queer theory, norm critical pedagogy and archival pedagogy to evaluate the materials available as well as develop an example of an archival pedagogical tool known as the “archive suitcase.” Both literature and archival material with direct connection to LGBTQ-history have been usedfor a historical summary over Sweden’s LGBTQ-history. The visit to QRAB also resulted in a presentation of archival materials available and an example for the archive suitcase with a focus on trans and gender nonconforming history. The study concludes that archives have a major role to play in the advancement and promotionof LGBTQ-history and therefore also in LGBTQ-people’s identity formations. It also accounts for ways the archives can use their existing archival material in their archival pedagogy outreach. This is a master’s thesis in Archival Science.

A collection of poems exploring ghosted ancestors, folktales, the queer black body, gender, and magical realism.

El objetivo principal de esta investigación es determinar cómo se construyen discursivamente las identidades homosexuales en la aplicación móvil Grindr usada en Lima. A partir de las tácticas de la intersubjetividad (Bucholtz y Hall 2004b), buscaré dar cuenta de los procesos intersubjetivos que les permiten a los usuarios construirse a sí mismos y a los demás, en interacción con ciertas ideologías. A manera de hipótesis, argumentaré que las identidades homosexuales se construyen por distinción (Bucholtz y Hall 2004b) en relación con ideologías en torno a la masculinidad. El método aplicado corresponde a un análisis textual de 500 perfiles de usuarios, de acuerdo con cinco distritos de diferentes niveles socioeconómicos. Organicé estos datos en cuatro ejes: identidad de género y orientación sexual, educación, higiene y nacionalidad. Asimismo, realicé un grupo focal de una hora con 11 minutos, con seis jóvenes universitarios limeños homosexuales. Finalmente, los resultados obtenidos evidencian que la configuración de las identidades homosexuales es más compleja que la hipótesis inicialmente propuesta. Concluyo que actualmente los usuarios construyen identidades homosexuales tomando como referencia principal ideales masculinos locales. Así, estos usuarios construyen masculinidades subordinadas (Connell 2003: 118) por su feminización y masculinidades marginadas (Connell 2003: 122) por su asociación con rasgos racializados y desprestigiados. Al mismo tiempo, se construyen masculinidades hegemónicas (Connell 2003: 116-117) autorizadas por sus rasgos físicos y prestigio social.

This study explores the impact of homelessness on the identity formation of LGBTQ+ youth of color. This group of people is overrepresented within the unhoused community, and unfortunately, under-studied, especially within the qualitative data sector. A literature review found primary themes of identity formation, intersectionality, and discrimination and stigma. In addition to exploring the impact of housing instability on the identity formation of LGBTQ+ youth of color, this study emphasizes the significance of intersectionality in understanding their experiences. By noting the overlap of multiple marginalized identities such as race, sexual orientation, and gender identity, this research illuminates the unique challenges faced by individuals at the nexus of these identities. Based on a survey of the existing literature, an exploratory interview, and a quantitative data analysis, this study aims to shed light on the experiences of those who have struggled with housing instability, and who also identify as LGBTQ+ people of color within the age range of 18-25. Findings advocate for comprehensive support systems to empower and uplift these marginalized individuals, addressing systemic disparities and promoting social equity.

We ran three MANOVAs in a sample of 422 young adults to examine differences in eating, shape, and weight concerns (i.e., ESW concerns) between gender diverse individuals, ciswomen, and cismen. Additionally, we examined the effects of self-esteem and sense of belonging on ESW concerns. We also tested for interaction (moderation) effects between gender and self-esteem and gender and sense of belonging. Findings indicated that gender diverse individuals experience ESW concerns at a significantly higher rate than cisgender men. There were no differences, however, in ESW concerns between gender diverse people and ciswomen. Self-esteem and sense of belonging significantly predicted ESW concerns, but no interaction effects were observed. Limitations of the current study include using one large gender diverse group rather than exploring each individual gender identity as well as limited recruitment. Future studies should recruit more participants across the gender spectrum in order to better understand the unique exp

Autoscopy is a poetry collection that constellates together the speaker's ancestral experience of Jewish diaspora and genocide, the ongoing oppression and genocide of Palestinians, and the anti-Black racism that led to the police-murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. In all, the speaker is at once close and far from what they witness, both personally impacted and implicated by their witnessing. In documentary, translation, prayer, elegiac, confessional, and experimental modes, these poems locate the possibility and need for a reimagined mode of kinship, using diasporic and queer desire as a means of reparation. / Master of Fine Arts / Autoscopy is a poetry collection.

Orientation Device is a tool for understanding the other towards recognizing alternative possibilities, for care and compassion, for expanding our culturally and politically bounded mindset, a tool of vital nausea and questioning compulsory heterosexuality. The work is a series of augmented reality (AR) experiences for mobile device that allow the audience to participate in documentary queer performances in any private or public setting. These immersive experiences challenge our perception of space. The LGBTQIA+ community is often disoriented within heteronormative spaces, and this work reverses that dichotomy by disorienting the audience. As a cisgender creator, I invite queer performers, artists, poets, and thinkers who express their identity in their creative practices. As the AR medium is widely distributable, I want to give the participants the potential opportunity to present themselves to a wide international audience through the poetics of augmented reality and documentary video holograms. / Master of Fine Arts / ORIENTATION DEVICE: poiesis of documentary volumetric video for augmented reality; location-aware interactive mise-en-scène; applied queer phenomenology; the potential of procedural worldmaking in the future

Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964), Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967), and Peau d'âne (1970), though quite popular with the public at their time of release and continuing to leave an aesthetic stamp on contemporary cinema, have been received by some critics and viewers in general as pure contrivance with little edification. This thesis puts forward, however, that such interpretations of these Demy musicals as primarily saccharine, superficial, and light miss the elemental melancholy belied by the charming varnish. Here, the three are unified as a triptych that thematizes and aestheticizes lack and desire in ways that can speak directly to the queer viewer. This thesis first situates the films among criticism from the 1960s to the present, opening a discourse on the potential for diverse political and aesthetic readings of Demy's work that continues to the present queer reading. Through a method of narratological close reading, I unify the three films as a triptych, each a variation on themes of isolation, absence, and amorous lack. Jean-Pierre Berthomé's Jacques Demy et les raciness du rêve (1982) is a rich resource in presenting these three seemingly distinct films as a totality. Once justified for study as a triptych, my thesis presents a queer reading of the films' ostensibly heterosexual narrative structures. With the buttressing of the queer theory of Harold Beaver, Andrew Ross, and Michael Koresky, among others, this chapter demonstrates how the narratives of longing Demy crafts can speak to the queer viewer and transcend a heterosexual framework. Finally, my thesis moves beyond narrative to another continuity, the aesthetic of camp present throughout the triptych. Through an exploration of the interconnectivity of camp, gender performance, and seduction, drawing on scholars Susan Sontag, Judith Butler, and Jean Baudrillard, respectively, the aesthetic of Demy's triptych is situated in a queer sensibility. Catherine Deneuve, Demy's "princesse idéale," is read as the reification of this sensibility in her potent performance of gender at the confluence of masculine and feminine qualities, as well as the ideal tabula rasa onto which the queer viewer's desire and longing can be projected. Ultimately, the triptych's reconciliation of the visually confectionary and the narratively somber is celebrated, as it points to a victory over tragedy through affective agency. / Master of Arts / Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964), Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967), and Peau d'âne (1970), French musicals from a masterful director of the New Wave movement in cinema, have been generally received positively by the public, and especially by gay viewers. Yet, these Demy films have been met with a range of skepticism to derision by some critics and even by a number of Demy's contemporaries. The three films' narratives concern a nascent romance thwarted by the Algerian War and economic demands, potential amorous encounters prevented by missed connections and arbitrary social barriers, and a flight from incestuous demands and its consequences of isolation and ridicule, respectively. Though these narratives are fundamentally melancholic, they are aestheticized through kaleidoscopic colors, virtuosic dancing, and the beautiful music scores of Michel Legrand. This thesis reexamines these films as a triptych that, considered together, thematizes lack and desire in a way that can speak directly to the queer viewer. Areas of overlap between the filmic narratives and the queer experience in the West are excavated and explored to demonstrate how the films can carry intimate signification to sexual minorities, as well as other marginalized identities. Finally, the particular and continuous aesthetic of the three films is studied as a queer sensibility embodied by the star of all three, Catherine Deneuve. The ability of this triptych to transcend a singular heterosexual interpretation and to heighten its effects on the viewer through a tension of form and content is celebrated.

A major motivation for this thesis is the creation of an exchange between the resources of the queer theology of the 2020s and the feminist liturgical movement in the 1990s, specifically regarding the theological consequences of the intersection of theologies of gender/sex with talk to and about God in the context of inclusive liturgical reform work.   This thesis conducts an analysis of the discourse regarding inclusive language in the motivational volume accompanying the never accepted handbook proposal for the Swedish church from year 2000. First by applying a reconfigured version of a method borrowed from analytical philosophy, excavates the views of gender/sex underlying the argumentation regarding inclusive language reform and gender-based discrimination. From these results a systematic reconstruction of the motivational volumes theology of gender/sex carried out. Finaly this reconstructed theology is critically evaluated by subjecting it to both the queer theology of Linn Tonstad and the feminist theology of Anne-Louise Eriksson  regarding the construction and meaning of gender/sex as well as of liturgical language and its oppressive and liberating functions.    This thesis concludes that the theology of gender/sex that follows from the motivational volume’s argumentation, is theologically problematic for the following reasons: The strict gender essentialism and dichotomic understanding om men and women are counterproductive to its emancipatory goal. By situating its argumentation in the patriarchal symbolic imaginary, its efforts to counteract patriarchal dominance becomes entangled in what Tonstad calls “the affective lives of binaries”. This suggests that every theology with an intention of inclusion and the combating of discrimination needs to commit itself to rigorous systematic examination of its theological premises’.       Finaly, not only does the lack of such a theology counteract any emancipatory attempt, it also risks when applied in liturgy to severely limit the God that the liturgy speaks to and of.

Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 5 juin 2023) / Notre société permet dorénavant aux jeunes une période d'exploration plus longue entre l'adolescence et l'âge adulte nommée la transition à l'âge adulte (Arnett, 2000). Durant cette période, les jeunes de minorités sexuelles et de genres (JMSG) se retrouvent encore trop souvent à négocier leur identité dans des conditions adverses (Wagaman, Keller, et Cavaliere, 2016). En effet, en raison de leur statut marginalisé dans la société, les JMSG sont plus à risque de subir des préjudices, de la discrimination et des stigmas. Cet environnement social hostile est susceptible d'engendrer plusieurs conséquences négatives sur leur santé mentale et leur bien-être (Hendricks et Testa, 2012; Meyer, 2003; Mongelli et al., 2019). Or, le rôle de la structure ou des normes sociales dans les expériences négatives ainsi que le stress subit par les JMSG est souligné, alors que la société est organisée selon une culture dominante qui ne reflète pas leur réalité (Meyer, 2003). Trois concepts peuvent être utilisés pour caractériser les normes sociales entourant le sexe, le genre et l'orientation sexuelle (OS), soit : 1) l'hétéronormativité, 2) la cisnormativité et 3) la binormativité du genre et de l'attirance sexuelle. Le présent projet vise à explorer qualitativement et dans une perspective queer l'expérience de transition à l'âge adulte des JMSG à travers le contexte social hétéro/cis/binormatif. Les objectifs spécifiques sont d'identifier chez ces jeunes 1) les caractéristiques et défis propres à leur transition à l'âge adulte, 2) leur perception de l'hétéro/cis/binormativité, et 3) les stratégies d'adaptation qu'ils utilisent pour négocier leur identité dans ce contexte. Pour ce faire, 13 personnes s'identifiant comme faisant partie de la diversité sexuelle et de genre, et âgées de 18 à 25 ans ont participé à deux entrevues semi-dirigées d'environ 75 minutes. Les résultats montrent que l'hétéronormativité, la cisnormativité et la binormativité créent un environnement social perçu comme généralement hostile pour les JMSG en transition à l'âge adulte qui complexifie et rend plus ardu le travail sur soi qu'ont à faire ces jeunes. Or, les personnes rencontrées font preuve de résilience et démontrent une grande créativité et agentivité dans leur façon de composer avec les trois normativités, et ce, au bénéfice de leur propre authenticité. Entre autres, deux profils d'expérience ressortent de cette étude (c.-à-d., le profil orienté vers soi et le profil orienté contre les normativités) concernant la façon dont ces jeunes vont se positionner face aux trois normativités, leur saillance identitaire, leur degré d'ouverture et de visibilité, ainsi que leur caractéristique identitaire.