Trans autoethnographies (Closed group)

9th Nordic Trans Studies Conference, December 8-9, 2025, Örebro University

As an interdisciplinary field, Trans Studies has roots in trans organising in/against, and outside academia including feminist and queer theory, the social and medical sciences. Additionally, the field of Trans Studies has a substantial and ongoing tradition of engaging autobiographical work – both historical and current. The importance of positioning oneself in one's research, as well as writing from and through one's own embodied and lived experiences, has been an integral part of much of the scholarly work done within the field of Trans Studies.

Autoethnographic writing and research in general can help us connect individual experiences to the collective, cultural, social and to larger systems of power, and can be a tool for reflecting lived experiences and material effects of structural oppression as well as our complicity in them. It is a way of writing oneself into culture and into realities.

In this work group we want to open up conversations and collective reflections about the multiple ways we use our own embodied experiences, autoethnography, autobiography and in other ways write ourselves into our research and scholarly practices.

●      Dana del Carmen, Tallinn University, Estonia

●      Sebastian Lönnlöv, Gothenburg University, Sweden

●      Iwo Nord, DIS – Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Sweden

●      Eha Emilia Oras, Tallinn University, Estonia

●      Tais Terletskaja, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

●      Felix Lene Ihrig

The working group is not open to non-participating audiences.