Men with vulvas: An ethnography of becoming a transmasculine person in Mexico (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant)

Summary

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

This research is situated at the intersection of two subfields of gender studies: trans* studies and masculinities studies. It offers an intimate look at the experiences of transmasculine people and their paths to becoming men in rural and urban spaces in five regions of Mexico (Northwest, Northeast, West, Central, and Southeast), where transmasculine voices have been largely excluded from a broader trans history.

In collaboration with my interlocutors, we are inquiring into the location of trans men historically, processes of everyday meaning, use of public spaces, exercise of sexuality, bodily metamorphoses, and the self- and external perceptions of being a man, trans man, and transmasculine person. Combining ethnographic and archival research methods, I rely on three research techniques: oral history, the collection of audiovisual material, and focus groups to learn how trans men have transformed the way they understand their masculinities, their corporealities and the creation of transmasculine political subjectivities from 2001 to the present.

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• WGF - Support for Research Projects   •
• Wenner-Gren Foundation

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Contact(s): Ariana Rodriguez Medel

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Rights & Attribution: This resource is an application from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and has been approved by the grantee solely for pedagogical purposes. Please do not cite, circulate, or duplicate any part of these documents without the express written consent of the author.

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