Metodologías queer: repensando métodos y prácticas en la investigación social

Session 1. Epistemological foundations

Slides PDF, 48 pages

Recommended reading

• Browne, K., & Nash, C. J. (2016). Introduction. In Queer methods and methodologies (pp. 1-24). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603223-1
• Bucholtz, M., & Hall, K. (2004). Theorizing identity in language and sexuality research. Language in Society, 33(4). https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404504334020
• Das, S. (2020). Queer methodologies and social science. In N. A. Naples (Ed.), Companion to sexuality studies (pp. 95-121). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119315049.ch6
• Guyan, K. (2022). Queer data. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350230767
• McDonald, J. (2017). Queering methodologies and organizational research: disrupting, critiquing, and exploring. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 12(2), 130-148. https://doi.org/10.1108/qrom-06-2016-1388
• Nelson, R. (2020). Questioning identities/shifting identities: the impact of researching sex and gender on a researcher’s LGBT+ identity. Qualitative Research, 20(6), 910-926. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794120914522
• Spiegelman, J. D. (2025). Grappling with cisgender positionality in applied linguistics research with trans participants. TESOL Quarterly, 59(4), 2358-2370. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.70013
• Zimman, L. (2020). Transgender language, transgender moment: Toward a trans linguistics. In The Oxford handbook of language and sexuality. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.013.45

Further reading

• Adams, T. E., & Holman Jones, S. (2011). Telling stories: Reflexivity, queer theory, and autoethnography. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 11(2), 108-116. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708611401329
• Borba, R., & Ostermann, A. C. (2007). Do bodies matter? Gender and Language, 1(1), 131-147. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.2007.1.1.131
• Crawley, S. L., Whitlock, M., & Earles, J. (2021). Smithing queer empiricism: Engaging ethnomethodology for a queer social science. Sociological Theory, 39(3), 127-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751211026357
• Cull, M. J. (2024). Trans epistemology and methodological radicalism: Un Œuf, but enough. Hypatia, 39(1), 44-60. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2023.102
• Dahl, U. (2016). Femme on femme. In K. Browne & C. J. Nash (Eds.), Queer methods and methodologies: Intersecting queer theories and social science research (pp. 143-166). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603223-10
• Cuklanz, L., & Erol, A. (2020). Queer theory and feminist methods: A review. Investigaciones Feministas, 11(2), 211-220. https://doi.org/10.5209/infe.66476
• McDonald, J. (2013). Coming out in the field: A queer reflexive account of shifting researcher identity. Management Learning, 44(2), 127-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507612473711
• Motschenbacher, H. (2011). Taking Queer Linguistics further: sociolinguistics and critical heteronormativity research. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2011(212). https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl.2011.050
• Motschenbacher, H., & Stegu, M. (2013). Queer Linguistic approaches to discourse. Discourse & Society, 24(5), 519-535. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926513486069
• O'Malley, M. P., Asher, N., Beck, B. L., Capper, C. A., Lugg, C. A., Murphy, J. P., & Whitlock, R. U. (2018). Asking queer(er) questions: Epistemological and methodological implications for qualitative inquirers. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 31(7), 572-594. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2018.1455996
• Wang, S., Wang, N. C., & Lee, W. C. (2026). Methodological and ethical considerations in lGBTQ-Focused online ethnographic research: A systematic review and a human-Centered framework. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 25. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251411167

Video

• Gill-Peterson, J. (2021). Queer theory killed Venus Xtravaganza: What's trans about queer studies now? [Video]. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Lecture, Duke University. https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=2986a255-ad98-4db4-bd23-ad9d00f73ef0
• Amin, K. (2026, May 11). Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies [Video]. Boston University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fHVndB_kQ
• Fry, P. H. (2009). Lecture 23: Queer theory and gender performativity [Video lecture]. Open Yale Courses, ENGL 300. https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300/lecture-23
• Guyan, K. (2023, June 6). The rainbow system: Queer data and the limits of LGBTQ inclusion [Video]. Oxford Internet Institute Pride Lecture. https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/videos/the-rainbow-system-queer-data-and-the-limits-of-lgbtq-inclusion/

Audio

• Haraway, D. (2023, May 31). Donna Haraway on storytelling in science (Season 1, Episode 1) [Audio podcast episode]. In The HPS Podcast. https://thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/episodes/12949879-s1-ep-1-donna-haraway-on-storytelling-in-science
• Guyan, K. (2022, November 1). Queer data with Kevin Guyan [Audio podcast episode]. In The Good Robot. https://www.thegoodrobot.co.uk/listennow/episode/7e7c29e4/queer-data-with-kevin-guyan
• The Good Robot (2022). Kevin Guyan on queer data [Transcript]. The Good Robot. https://www.thegoodrobot.co.uk/post/kevin-guyan-on-queer-data

Data

• Scottish Government (2025, July 14). Non-binary people in Scotland: An analysis of Scotland's Census 2022 [Report]. https://www.gov.scot/publications/non-binary-people-in-scotland-an-analysis-of-scotlands-census-2022/
• National Records of Scotland (n.d.). Scotland's Census 2022 quality assurance report: Sexual orientation and trans status or history [Report]. Scotland's Census. https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/2022-reports/scotlands-census-2022-quality-assurance-reports/quality-assurance-report-sexual-orientation-and-trans-status-or-history/

Reading

• Osborne, P., & Segal, L. (1994). Gender as performance: An interview with Judith Butler [Interview]. Radical Philosophy, 67. https://www.radicalphilosophyarchive.com/issue-files/rp67_interview_butler.pdf
• Weisser, J. (2025, July 16). Applying queer theory to qualitative research [Blog post]. Quirkos. https://www.quirkos.com/blog/post/queer-theory-and-qualitative-methods-an-unlikely-marriage/

Session 2. Methods and practices

Slides PDF, 45 pages

Recommended reading

• Brown, L. (2021). A philosophy, a methodology, and a gender identity: Bringing pragmatism and mixed methods research to transformative nonbinary focused sociophonetic research. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 43(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.33137/twpl.v43i1.35965
• Browne, K. (2016). Queer quantification or queer(y)ing quantification. In K. Browne & C. J. Nash (Eds.), Queer methods and methodologies: Intersecting queer theories and social science research (pp. 231-250). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603223-15
• Calder, J. (2021). Whose indexical field is it? The role of community epistemology in indexing social meaning. In Proceedings of the 20th meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society. Texas Linguistic Society.
• Jackman, M. C. (2016). The trouble with fieldwork. In K. Browne & C. J. Nash (Eds.), Queer methods and methodologies: Intersecting queer theories and social science research (pp. 113-128). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603223-8
• Dadas, C. (2016). Messy methods: Queer methodological approaches to researching social media. Computers and Composition, 40, 60-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2016.03.007
• Levy, D. L., & Johnson, C. W. (2011). What does the Q mean? Including queer voices in qualitative research. Qualitative Social Work, 11(2), 130-140. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325011400485
• Motschenbacher, H. (2018). Corpus linguistics in language and sexuality studies. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 7(2), 145-174. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.17019.mot
• Gorman-Murray, A., Johnston, L., & Waitt, G. (2016). Queer(ing) communication in research relationships. In K. Browne & C. J. Nash (Eds.), Queer methods and methodologies: Intersecting queer theories and social science research (pp. 97-112). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603223-7
• Rooke, A. (2009). Queer in the field: On emotions, temporality, and performativity in ethnography. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 13(2), 149-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160802695338

Further reading

• Fish, J. N., & Russell, S. T. (2018). Queering methodologies to understand queer families. Family Relations, 67(1), 12-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12297
• Franzke, A. S., Bechmann, A., Zimmer, M., & Ess, C. (2020). Internet research: Ethical guidelines 3.0. Association of Internet Researchers. https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf
• Graham, M. (2016). Method matters. In K. Browne & C. J. Nash (Eds.), Queer methods and methodologies: Intersecting queer theories and social science research (pp. 183-194). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603223-12
• Muñoz, L. (2016). Brown, queer and gendered. In K. Browne & C. J. Nash (Eds.), Queer methods and methodologies: Intersecting queer theories and social science research (pp. 55-68). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603223-4
• Nye, C. M., Livingston, J. A., & Hequembourg, A. (2023). Key considerations for conducting qualitative research with LGBTQ + youth. International Journal of LGBTQ+ Youth Studies, 22(1), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2023.2253444
• Smuts (2024). Exploring the Pleasures and Perils of Participant Observation in Researching Heterosexual Identities
• Vriesendorp, H., & Wilson, R. T. (2024). Minority genders in quantitative survey research: a data-driven approach to clear, inclusive, and accurate gender questions. Linguistics Vanguard, 10(1), 493-504. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0025

Video

• shuster, s. (2024, March 9). Uncertain expertise in transgender medicine [Video]. Center for Applied Transgender Studies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4pq5icHJPw
• University of Colorado Boulder (2016, April 7). (Un)moved: The paradoxes of disaffection among undocumented queer immigrants [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlhBGHgufG8

Audio

• Zimman, L. (2019, November 26). Lal-apalooza [Audio podcast episode]. In The Vocal Fries. https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/lal-apalooza/id1260191014?i=1000444483210
• The Vocal Fries (2024, June 19). Lal-apalooza transcript [Transcript]. https://vocalfriespod.com/2024/06/19/lal-apalooza-transcript-2/
• D'Ignazio, C. (n.d.). La cuantificación de la información puede ser y es violencia, pero también tiene el potencial de ser liberadora [Interview]. Hala Bedi. https://halabedi.eus/ciencia-catherine-dignazio-la-cuantificacion-de-la-informacion-puede-ser-y-es-violencia-pero-tambien-tiene-el-potencial-de-ser-liberadora/
• Volcano, D. L. (2020, November 18). Del LaGrace Volcano [Video]. SAQMI. https://saqmi.se/play/del-lagrace-volcano/

Reading

• D'Ignazio, C., & Klein, L. F. (2020). Data feminism [Open-access edition]. MIT Press. https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/
• Society for Cultural Anthropology (2016, December 7). Just an anthropologist? An interview with Esther Newton [Interview]. Fieldsights. https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/series/just-an-anthropologist-an-interview-with-esther-newton
• boyd, d. (2010, January 25). Public by default, private when necessary [Blog post]. Apophenia. https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/01/25/public_by_defau.html

Session 3. Ethics, politics and intersectionality

Slides PDF, 28 pages

Recommended reading

• Detamore, M. (2016). Queer(y)ing the ethics of research methods. In K. Browne & C. J. Nash (Eds.), Queer methods and methodologies: Intersecting queer theories and social science research (pp. 167-182). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603223-11
• Guyan, K. (2022). Fight back! Using queer data. In Queer data: Using gender, sex and sexuality data for action. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350230767
• McDonald, J. (2016). Expanding queer reflexivity: The closet as a guiding metaphor for reflexive practice. Management Learning, 47(4), 391-406. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507615610029
• Moussawi, G., Richardson, J. W., & Greene, T. (2025). Beyond positionalities: Moving toward a queer embodied approach to researching LGBTQ+ space and placemaking. Sex & Sexualities, 1(2), 201-210. https://doi.org/10.1177/30333717251375993
• Sibbald, K. R., Phelan, S. K., Beagan, B. L., & Pride, T. M. (2025). Positioning positionality and reflecting on reflexivity: Moving from performance to practice. Qualitative Health Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323241309230
• Taylor, Y. (2010). Complexities and complications: Intersections of class and sexuality. In Theorizing intersectionality and sexuality (pp. 37-55). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304093_3
• Vincent, B. W. (2018). Studying trans: recommendations for ethical recruitment and collaboration with transgender participants in academic research. Psychology & Sexuality, 9(2), 102-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2018.1434558

Further reading

• Bilge, S. (2013). Intersectionality undone: Saving intersectionality from feminist intersectionality studies. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 10(2), 405-424. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x13000283
• Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics. University of chicago legal forum, 1989(1). https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol1989/iss1/8/
• Kerekere, E. (2017). Part of the whānau: The emergence of Takatāpui identity. He whāriki takatāpui. Victoria University of Wellington. https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.17060225
• Platero, L. R. (2015). ¿Es el análisis interseccional una metodología feminista y queer? In I. Mendia Azkue, M. Luxán, M. Legarreta, G. Guzmán, I. Zirion, & J. Azpiazu (Eds.), Otras formas de (re)conocer: Reflexiones, herramientas y aplicaciones desde la investigación feminista (pp. 79-96). Hegoa / SIMReF.
• Radi, B. (2019). Políticas del conocimiento: Hacia una epistemología trans*. In M. López Seoane (Ed.), Los mil pequeños sexos: Intervenciones críticas sobre políticas de género y sexualidades. Eduntref. https://www.aacademica.org/blas.radi/32
• Radi, B. (2021). Las personas trans en la ontología social oficial: Políticas de números con perspectiva de género. Revista Argentina de Ciencia Política, (26). https://doi.org/10.62174/racp.6658
• Tuck, E. (2009). Suspending damage: A letter to communities. Harvard Educational Review, 79(3), 409-428. https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.79.3.n0016675661t3n15

Video

• Crenshaw, K. (2016, November). The urgency of intersectionality [Video]. TED. https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality
• Spade, D. (2017, January 30). CLAGS 2016 Kessler Award lecture [Video]. Barnard Center for Research on Women. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXYNWb9cLrE

Reading

• Ahmed, S. (n.d.). feministkilljoys [Blog]. https://feministkilljoys.com/
• Lorde, A. (1982). Learning from the 60s [Speech]. BlackPast. https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/1982-audre-lorde-learning-60s/
• (n.d.). Abolition means the creation of something new [Blog post]. Medium. https://medium.com/@YESHICAN/abolition-means-the-creation-of-something-new-72fc67c8f493
• Spade, D., & Oswin, N. (n.d.). On normal life [Interview]. Society and Space. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/on-normal-life