This study aims to investigate how LGBTQI individuals have experienced the visibility of LGBTQI perspectives in religious education and how religious educators can integrate LGBTQI perspectives into teaching to ensure an inclusive learning environment for all students. To address the research questions, semi-structured interviews were chosen as the data collection method, followed by thematic analysis of the collected material. The results of the study indicate that LGBTQI individuals have experienced negative portrayals of LGBTQI perspectives in education. All LGBTQI individuals emphasize an experience of heteronormalized religious education and express the need for modernization of teaching practices. Furthermore, the results show that language plays a significant role in integrating LGBTQI perspectives into religious education. Religious educators point out that the existing curriculum documents are clear enough to enable teaching about LGBTQI perspectives and religion. However, they also highlight that school textbooks often inadequately address the subject, requiring educators to seek and utilize additional materials to enhance their teaching. Another perspective that emerges is the importance of integrating norm-critical pedagogy. All religious educators stress the importance of creating an atmosphere where students are encouraged to have open and respectful discussions about LGBTQI perspectives and religion. Finally, the study's results are discussed in relation to previous research and the theoretical framework of the study.

Denna uppsats avhandlar queerrepresentation utifrån publikens perspektiv och kommer använda ett queerteoretiskt och receptionsteoretiskt perspektiv för att kunna fastställa en bild av hur queerrepresentation ser ut i animerade tv-serier. Metoden för detta har varit en observationsstudie på webbforumet Reddit och fyra olika animerade tv-serier. Urvalet infattade 21 olika trådar på Reddit som gav en grundläggande bild av åsikter och tankar angående hur representation om queera personer bör se ut. Denna studie har analyserat kommentarer från olika subreddits som valts ut efter de fyra tv-serierna och relevanta sökresultat, sökorden var: queer, representation, cartoon och gay. Resultatet visade en komplex matris av åsikter och uppfattningar kring vad som är uppskattad och godtagbar porträttering samt karaktärernas inverkan på publiken. Kommentarer skrev mycket om en avsaknad av manliga queera karaktärer och en missnöjdhet av hur queerakaraktärer inte blev queer förrän i slutet. Resultatet visade även hur det skapades konflikter mellan sexuella läggningar som skapade diskussioner mellan användare. Denna studie vill uppmana till vidare forskning inom det komplexa ämnet queerrepresentation.

I denna uppsats studeras relationen mellan David och Jonatan narrativt. Utvalda verser av Första och Andra Samuelsboken som berättar om David och Jonatans respektive känslouttryck för varandra studeras queerteologiskt och queerteoretiskt med hjälp av affektteori och den narrativa metoden “intern fokalisering”. Normativa relationsformer i den hebreiska bibeln utläggs och förs i dialog med queerteologisk forskning varav en detaljanalys av verserna följer som resulterar i en analys av varför denna relationsform kan tolkas som queer och unik för den hebreiska bibeln.

Denna uppsats undersöker de queera perspektiven i John Ajvide Lindqvists roman Låt den rätte komma in. De metoder som tillämpats är en innehållsanalytisk- och motströmsläsning för att synliggöra de element som är relevanta för uppsatsen. Syftet är att bidra med en djupare förståelse av de queerteoretiska element som finns i verket kopplat till vampyren Eli som är androgyn samt att jämföra de två filmerna som finns till hands för att göra denna uppsats multimodal men också att bidra med en didaktisk reflektion. Det som undersöks i den didaktiska delen är både hur man kan skapa en god skolmiljö för att kunna ta upp ämnen som berör sexualitet och identitet men också just hur romanen kan användas.

This essay explores drag as an artform, guided by the lens of queer theory, offering insights into the nuanced expressions of drag. Exploring three theatrical productions across genres like modern dance, opera and musical theatre, the study focuses on character portrayal and design, seeking to understand the essence of drag and why certain cross- dressings are more closely associated with drag than others. By combining performance analyses with existing research on drag, this paper reveals the complex and dynamic nature of drag culture. With a particular emphasis on the exploration and subversion of gender norms, the study sheds light on how drag is portrayed and understood within the Swedish theatrical context through Matilda the Musical, Askungen and Everlasting Event. Through this investigation, the essay offers valuable insights into the evolving role of drag as a form of artistic expression and social commentary.

This is a comparative study between binary and nonbinary transgender people based on their everyday experience of difficulties. Previous studies show that many transpeople experience violence, infringement and oppression. Studies also show that suicide rate among transgender people is much higher than among the common (cisgender) population. Those studies rarely make an analysis based on specific gender identity, which shows the diversity among transgender people.To analyse the individual experiences, this study made four interviews with binary and nonbinary transgender people. The interviews were analysed with a queer-theoratical perspective to show and focus on the oppressional mechanics that heteronormativity has. The results show clear differences and similarities between binary and nonbinary transgender people's experiences of everyday life difficulties and oppression. Nonbinary transgender people elucidate their nonexistence in the majorities knowledge as a big difficulty; that people in their everyday surroundings and society in general are not aware of them. Binary transgender people's experiences have instead been focusing on their bodies and social context of their transitions. / Denna studie avser att undersöka och jämföra transpersoners erfarenheter kring svårigheter i vardagen. Jämförelsen görs mellan binära och ickebinära transpersoner. Tidigare forskning visar att många transpersoner blir utsatta för våld, kränkningar och förtryck. Den visar även att självmordsfrekvensen bland transpersoner är mycket högre än hos populationen i övrigt. I dessa undersökningar kring transpersoners hälsa och situation görs det sällan eller aldrig analyser baserade på den mångfald gällande identitet som finns inom gruppen transpersoner. För att undersöka dessa individuella erfarenheter genomfördes ett antal intervjuer med binära och ickebinära transpersoner. Intervjuerna analyserades utifrån en queerteoretisk utgångspunkt för att belysa de förtryckande mekanismer som heteronormen medför. Resultatet visar att det finns tydliga likheter och skillnader i binära och ickebinära transpersoners erfarenheter kring svårigheter och förtryck. Ickebinära transpersoner tar upp omgivningens omedvetenhet kring deras existens som en stor svårighet, att personer i deras vardagliga omgivning och i samhället i stort inte känner till att de finns medan svårigheterna för binära transpersoner snarare har varit i förhållande till deras kroppar och sociala sammanhang.

The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge about how people who identify themselves outside the gender binary system look upon treatment from people in different contexts and how the strategies they use in relation to treatment are expressed. As an approach to this study, we chose to do a qualitative internet study, the empirical material included ten various blogs written by people who identify themselves outside the gender binary system. By using a content analysis we were able to distinguish themes concerning good and bad treatment as well as different forms of coping in our empirical material. The analysis was based on two different kinds of perspectives: queer theory and the concept of coping strategies. The result of this study showed that people who identify themselves outside the gender binary system experience poor treatment more often than good treatment from people in different contexts. One important result that this study showed was that most people described that they felt reduced and ridiculed by, for example, government officials and family members because of their gender identity. We also found that the people in this study used different strategies to cope with the poor treatment they received. A strategy that most of the people in the study used to avoid being treated badly were dressing in gender-neutral clothes. The main conclusion of the study is that it is important that we humans do not assume that all persons belong to the gender binary system. More knowledge about the area is needed to enable us to treat people who identify outside the gender binary system adequately.

This essay, When women become men, is written with the intention of illustrating a way in which archaeologists and osteologists can work together to derive from the notion that men and women, and masculinity and femininity, are two rigid binary components which oppose each other. This is done on a practical level by analysing the graves from the Viking age burial site at Stora Hallvards, Silte parish, Gotland, Sweden. The analysis has been carried out through the means of osteological and archaeological sex assessments and osteological means of age assessment on the individuals. The main questions asked are how well the archaeological and osteological sex assessments correlate with each other, and what it means when they don’t; whether or not there is a difference in sex and gender based on age; and how the non-normative individuals in the materials can be reached. The essay has been written through intersectional feminist theoretical perspective with a base in queertheory, and an introduction has also been given to different views of, and ways in perceiving, sex and gender in different cultures around the world, with a broad time perspective to broaden the sex/gender discussion over time and space. The results of the analysis show that the archaeological and osteological sex assessments matched in 47,8% of the cases, and did not in 8,7% of the cases. The results are then discussed from a gender perspective, and it shows that there are differences between both children and adults, but also between adults, and between children. The difference can to some extent be linked to age. In this essay, it has been shown that it is fully possible to interpret the material based on more parameters than femininity and masculinity, and that this can only be achieved by seeing gender as the wide range of humanity that it actually includes, such as identity, status, sexuality, occupation and age. All that is required is that one is open to the idea that gender is not linked binary to biological sex.

The purpose of this study was to investigate if and how the picture book about Alfons Åberg express gender stereotypes and sexuality, through its images and texts. That is because it is one of the most borrowed books in Swedish libraries and also there fore could be a book that is especially common i Swedish preschools. The books about Alfons has also played a major role in Swedish cultural history and the Swedish history of literature, and are known as a part of the swedish heritage. Since children books are well used in Swedish preschools and because children often are left alone to read, we wondered what kind of gender norms the books of Alfons could express to the preschool children. There- fore the aim of this study is to investigate how gender norms are expressed in two of the Alfons books in the book series. The survey was conducted through qualitative picture book analysis which is inspired by former text and image analysis. The theoretical method to investigate how gender norms were expressed was gender theory. We also used discourse analysis and social constructivism as a base, which means that the norms are defined as a social construction that are under constant transformation. The results show that sex, gender and sexuality are interacting in the books of Alfons Åberg. The characters in the book expressed that sex and gender norms were expressed by separation of male and female. The separation find out to be a way to show that opposites also expect to attract each other. The conclusion was that sex, gender and heterosexuality were linked together as a normative exclusion of other sexualitys as inpossible.

Syftet med denna studie var att explorativt undersöka socialsekreterares föreställningar och förhållningssätt till personer med könsöverskridande identiteter inom området barn och familj. Studien är baserad på en kvalitativ metod där semistrukturerade intervjuer med sex socialsekreterare utgör studiens empiri. Queerteori och genusteori har bidragit till en djupare förståelse för informanternas utsagor och för analys av studiens resultat.Resultatet visar att erfarenheten av och kunskapen om könsöverskridande identiteter är begränsad hos socialsekreterarna på arbetsplatsen. Socialsekreterarna använder sig i huvudsak av heteronormativa antaganden i bemötandet av sina klienter. Därmed uppfattas enbart två olika kön, liksom dess respektive motsvarighet i två pronomen, som de enda existerande alternativa könsidentiteterna. Samtliga socialsekreterare som deltog i studien saknade gedigna erfarenheter av att ifrågasätta könsstereotyper i utredningar och bedömningar. Informanterna påtalar själva att de tror sig sakna kunskap och kompetens. Risker med begränsade erfarenheter och bristande kunskap kan vara att viktiga aspekter, som exempelvis kan handla om att en klient utsatts för diskriminerande behandling i någon form på grund av sin könsidentitet, förbigås av socialsekreteraren. Den fortbildning som socialsekreterarna hitintills fått på arbetsplatsen har inte berört frågan om könsöverskridande identiteter. Enligt informanterna beror det på att denna fråga inte prioriterats.Nyckelord: