Abstract
The following two poems were formed from transcribed interview text from an unpublished doctoral thesis (Lambert,
2006) which explores some of the ways in which identities and places could be considered mutually constitutive. Specifically,
it examines the ways in which five lesbian identified women talk about their experiences and identities with, in and through
queer places and events. The original words were spoken by two participants as part of their own narratives of self when
asked to share critical moments in their lives when they noticed or felt themselves to be in some way different to and/or
differentiated from others. There words are presented here as two thematically similar stand alone found poems, (see
for example, Butler-Kisber, 2002; Glesne, 1997; Lahman et al., 2009) without theoretical analysis. This is done in order to
both draw in and implicate the reader in the everyday social readings of nonnormatively gendered bodies. The poems thus
raise critical questions about re-presentational issues in research as well as highlighting the imperative to do justice to the
speakers of such words, and the complexities associated with such a task.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 414 - 417 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Qualitative Inquiry |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |