Queering Tactical Technical Communication: DIY HRT

Document Type

Article

Author ORCID Identifier

Avery C. Edenfield https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1273-2204

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Technical Communication Quarterly

Volume

28

Issue

3

Publisher

Routledge

Publication Date

5-16-2019

First Page

177

Last Page

191

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.

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