Special issue editors’ introduction

Adams, Tony E., Holman Jones, Stacy Linn and Ellis, Carolyn (2015) Autoethnography. New York: Oxford University Press.

Adams, Tony E., and Holman Jones, Stacy Linn (2011) Telling stories: reflexivity, queer theory, and autoethnography. Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies 11(2): 108-116. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708611401329. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708611401329

Ahmed, Sara (2007) A phenomenology of whiteness. Feminist Theory 8(2): 149–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700107078139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700107078139

Ahmed, Sara (2012) On being included: racism and diversity in institutional life. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822395324

Ahmed, Sara (2017) Living a feminist life. Durham: Duke University Press.

Alm, Erika, and Engebretsen, Elisabeth L. (2022) Anti-gender politics and queer theory. Lambda Nordica 27(3–4): 7–19. https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v27.838. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v27.838

Baril, Alexandre (2015) Transness as debility: rethinking intersections between trans and disabled embodiments. Feminist Review 111(1): 59–74. https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2015.21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2015.21

Berg, Annika, Eriksson, Åsa, Gemzöe, Lena and Malmén, Stina (eds) (2025) Striden om genus: politik, vetenskap och social kamp. Stockholm: Appell förlag.

Bettcher, Talia Mae (2007) Evil deceivers and make-believers: on transphobic violence and the politics of illusion. Hypatia 22(3): 43–65. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4640081. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb01090.x

Bettcher, Talia Mae (2019) Trans phenomena. Weiss, Gail, Murphy, Ann V. and Salamon, Gayle (eds) 50 concepts for a critical phenomenology. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.

Bissenbakker, Mons, and Raun, Tobias (2023) Transbekymringens cisnormative økonomi: nye grænser for køn i diskurser om behandling af trans-børn. Lambda Nordica 28(1): 15–47. https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v28.877. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v28.877

Bochner, Arthur P. (2017) Heart of the matter: a mini-manifesto for autoethnography. International Review of Qualitative Research 10(1): 67–80. https://doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2017.10.1.67. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2017.10.1.67

Bochner, Arthur P. and Ellis, Carolyn (2016) The ICQI and the rise of autoethnography: solidarity through community. International Review of Qualitative Research 9(2): 208–17. https://doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2016.9.2.208. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2016.9.2.208

Bremer, Signe (2021) Kollektivtrafikens könstyranni. Rönnblom, Malin, Linander, Ida and Sandberg, Linda (eds) (O)tryggt?: texter om makt, plats och motstånd. Premiss förlag.

Bremer, Signe (2011) Kroppslinjer: kön, transsexualism och kropp i berättelser om könskorrigering. Göteborg: Makadam.

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Butler, Judith (2005) Giving an account of oneself. New York: Fordham University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5422/fso/9780823225033.001.0001

Butler, Judith (2024) Who´s afraid of gender? New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Bylund, Christine, Liliequist, Evelina and Kallenberg, Kim Silow (2021) Autoetnografisk etnologi – en inledning. Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift 30(1): 1-6. https://publicera.kb.se/kp/article/view/1327.

Cordoba, Sebastian (2023) Non-binary gender identities: the language of becoming. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003120360

Diallo, Oda-Kange Midtvåge and Miskow Friborg, Nico (2021) Subverting the white cis gaze: towards a pedagogy of discomfort, accountability and care in the anthropology classroom. Teaching Anthropology 10(4): 17–35. https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i4.622. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i4.622

Diversi, Marcelo and Moreira, Claudio (2019) Autoethnography as an act of resistance against narrative hatred. Qualitative Inquiry 25(6): 544-546. https://doi.org/10.1177/ 1077800418806605. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800418806605

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Ellis, Carolyn, Adams, Tony E. and Bochner, Arthur P. (2011) Autoethnography: an overview. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research 12(1): Art. 10. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23032294.

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Haraway, Donna (2016) Staying with the trouble: making kin in the chthulucene. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11cw25q

Harju, Otso (2023) Vulnerability as best practice?: ‘minority’ autoethnography in hostile worlds. Tiede and Edistys 48(1): 28-41. https://doi.org/10.51809/te.126090. DOI: https://doi.org/10.51809/te.126090

Holman Jones, Stacy and Adams, Tony E. (2010) Autoethnography is a queer method. Browne, Kath, and Catherine J. Nash (eds) Queer methods and methodologies: intersecting queer theories and social science research. Farnham: Ashgate.

Holman Jones, Stacy and Harris, Anne M. (2019) Queering autoethnography. New York: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315268590

Honkasalo, Julian (2020) The intimate labour of non-normative bodies: transgender patients in early Swedish medical research. Griffin, Gabriele and Leibetseder, Doris (eds) Bodily interventions and intimate labour: understanding bioprecarity. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526138576.00022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526138576.00022

Honkasalo, Julian (2023) Transfeminine letter clubs, community care and the radical politics of the erotic. European Journal of Women’s Studies 30(2): 274–89. https://doi. org/10.1177/13505068231164215. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068231164215

Horvat, Ana, Netzer, Orly Lael, McRae, Sarah and Rak, Julie (2019) Unfixing the prefix in life-writing studies: trans, transmedia, transnational. A/b: Auto/Biography Studies 34(1): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2019.1548084. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2019.1548084

Huttunen, Aira (2022) Friction and bodily discomfort: transgender experiences of embodied knowledge and information practices. PhD thesis. Tampere: Faculty of humanities, University of Oulu.

Johnson, Amber L. and LeMaster, Benny (2020) Gender futurity, intersectional autoethnography: embodied theorizing from the margins. New York, NY: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043683

Keegan, Cáel (2020) Transgender studies, or how to do things with trans*. Somerville, Siobhan B. (ed) The Cambridge companion to queer studies. Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108699396.006

Kehl, Katharina (2020) Homonationalism revisited: race, rights, and queer complexities. Lambda Nordica 25(2): 17–38. https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v25.673. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v25.673

Konnelly, Lex (2021) Nuance and normativity in trans linguistic research. Journal of Language and Sexuality 10(1): 71–82. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00016.kon. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00016.kon

Koobak, Redi (2014) Writing in stuck places. Lykke, Nina (ed) Writing academic texts differently. Routledge.

Lather, Patricia Ann (2007) Getting lost: feminist efforts toward a double(d) science. Albany: State University of New York Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/book5183

Linander, Ida (2018) “It was like I had to fit into a category”: people with trans experiences navigating access to trans-specific healthcare and health. PhD thesis. Umeå: Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University.

Linander, Ida, Alm, Erika, Hammarström, Anne and Harryson, Lisa (2017) Negotiating the (bio)medical gaze: experiences of trans-specific healthcare in Sweden. Social Science & Medicine 174: 9–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.11.030. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.11.030

Lundberg, Tove, Wurm, Matt and Malmquist, Anna (2022) Att göra livet (över)levbart: transpersoners ontiska, relationella och reflekterande arbete för att skapa minoritetsro och hantera utsatthet i vardagen. Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 43(1): 7–26. https://doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v43i1.10003. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v43i1.10003

Lykke, Nina (2018) When death cuts apart: on affective difference, compassionate companionship and lesbian widowhood. Juvonen, Tuula and Kolehmainen, Marjo (eds) Affective inequalities in intimate relationships. London New York, NY: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107318-8

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Ngo, Helen (2017) The habits of racism: a phenomenology of racism and racialized embodiment. Lanham, United States: Lexington Books. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978736665

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