Abstract
Given the barriers for transgender people to access affordable gender-transition care, online environments have witnessed a rise in user-generated instruction sets providing direction on the self-administration of hormone therapy. These ethical forms of tactical technical communication demonstrate the need to consider a new materialist approach to queer theory, which refuses to align queer agency with stable identities. Drawing directly from these user-generated instructions, this article articulates a theoretical framework for queer, tactical technical communication.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 177-191 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Technical Communication Quarterly |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 3 2019 |
Keywords
- Health/medical communication
- critical theory
- cultural studies
- digital technologies
- gender research