Francis Ray White
Biographic Data
| ID | 644491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis Ray White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis Ray |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE F R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6526-6462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Why Is the Chubby Guy Running
Since the late 2000s trans pregnancy has received increasing public and academic attention, and stories of the ‘pregnant man’ have become a media staple. Existing research has critiqued such spectacularization and the supposed tension between maleness, masculinity, and pregnancy that underpins it. Extending that work, this article draws on interview data from an international study of trans reproductive practices and analyzes participants' experi…
Embodied Experiences of Trans Pregnancy
Drawing on interview data from the international project 'Pregnant Men: An International Exploration of Trans Male Experiences & Practices of Reproduction' this article explores embodied experiences of transmasculine and nonbinary pregnancy. Moving beyond the spectacle of the 'pregnant man', our analysis builds on existing literature on gendered embodiment to develop a deeper understanding of corporeality and the lived, bodily complexities of tra…
Getting beyond peeing and pronouns
Non-binary people make up just over half the UK trans population and younger people are more likely to identify as non-binary than those over 35 . Despite this increasing recognition, non-binary identities and experiences continue to be widely misunderstood. Similarly, if university trans inclusion policies focus solely on models of binary or medical transition, they will not fully address the needs of non-binary students. In the context of an in…
Medical uncertainty and reproduction of the “normal”
In this work, we draw upon in-depth interview and focus group data from a three-year international study of 70 trans people (residing across Australia, Canada, the European Union, United Kingdom, and the United States) about their intentions and experiences around pregnancy, as well as 22 health care providers (practicing across Australia, Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States) with self-identified experience worki…
Beyond the pregnant man
Every achievement of the past is cancelled out by the need to label the next achievement the ‘first’, making the framing of trans the framing of something exotic, different, a symptom of the modern
Transnormativity in the psy disciplines
The psy disciplines (i.e., psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy) have played a significant role in shaping understandings of transgender people's lives in ways that are transnormative (i.e., by emphasizing one particular account of what it means to be transgender). This article documents (a) how the rise of the psy disciplines created opportunities for transgender people to access treatment (but that such access often require…
Fucking failures
In the context of the obesity ‘epidemic’ fat people’s sex lives are cast as sterile, sexually dysfunctional or just plain non-existent. This article analyzes medical discourses of obesity and sex in order to argue that fat sex is constructed as a type of failure. Using insights from antisocial queer theory, fat sex is further shown to be queer in its failure to adhere to the specifically heteronormative dictates of what Edelman (2004) calls ‘repr…
Fat gay men
Over the past 10 to 15 years Fat Studies has developed apace within academia as a set of vibrant, exciting and necessary critiques of the contemporary (mis)treatment of fatness and fat people in so
Fat/Trans
This article argues for a new approach to the intersection of fat/trans identities that moves beyond “additive” accounts or those that simply highlight parallel struggles. The analysis addresses the divergent accounts of the “malleability” of the body in fat and trans political discourses and how these might shape the lived experience of the fat/trans individual. However, rather than thinking of trans and fat as distinct phenomena, the article as…
We’re kind of devolving’
In recent years, analyses of mainstream media constructions of the obesity ‘epidemic’ have proliferated within fat studies. Of less attention has been the visual representation of obesity. This paper presents an analysis of one particular form of graphic representation of obesity, that of the ‘fat (d)evolution’ image. This image parodies the iconography of the ‘march of progress’ – a series of figures of ascending height illustrating the evolutio…
Fat, Queer, Dead
That contemporary discourses of the 'obesity epidemic' are engaged in the construction of fatness as pathological, immoral and socially undesirable has been the subject much recent critical inquiry within Fat Studies. This paper contributes to that literature with a re-reading of obesity discourse via what queer theorist Lee Edelman (2004) has called 'reproductive futurism'. Edelman contends that queerness figures the social order's death drive, …
Transnormativity in the psy disciplines
The psy disciplines (i.e., psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy) have played a significant role in shaping understandings of transgender people's lives in ways that are transnormative (i.e., by emphasizing one particular account of what it means to be transgender). This article documents (a) how the rise of the psy disciplines created opportunities for transgender people to access treatment (but that such access often require…
Fat, Queer, Dead
That contemporary discourses of the 'obesity epidemic' are engaged in the construction of fatness as pathological, immoral and socially undesirable has been the subject much recent critical inquiry within Fat Studies. This paper contributes to that literature with a re-reading of obesity discourse via what queer theorist Lee Edelman (2004) has called 'reproductive futurism'. Edelman contends that queerness figures the social order's death drive, …
Embodied Experiences of Trans Pregnancy
Drawing on interview data from the international project 'Pregnant Men: An International Exploration of Trans Male Experiences & Practices of Reproduction' this article explores embodied experiences of transmasculine and nonbinary pregnancy. Moving beyond the spectacle of the 'pregnant man', our analysis builds on existing literature on gendered embodiment to develop a deeper understanding of corporeality and the lived, bodily complexities of tra…
Beyond the pregnant man
Every achievement of the past is cancelled out by the need to label the next achievement the ‘first’, making the framing of trans the framing of something exotic, different, a symptom of the modern
Getting beyond peeing and pronouns
Non-binary people make up just over half the UK trans population and younger people are more likely to identify as non-binary than those over 35 . Despite this increasing recognition, non-binary identities and experiences continue to be widely misunderstood. Similarly, if university trans inclusion policies focus solely on models of binary or medical transition, they will not fully address the needs of non-binary students. In the context of an in…
Why Is the Chubby Guy Running
Since the late 2000s trans pregnancy has received increasing public and academic attention, and stories of the ‘pregnant man’ have become a media staple. Existing research has critiqued such spectacularization and the supposed tension between maleness, masculinity, and pregnancy that underpins it. Extending that work, this article draws on interview data from an international study of trans reproductive practices and analyzes participants' experi…
Fat, Queer, Dead
That contemporary discourses of the 'obesity epidemic' are engaged in the construction of fatness as pathological, immoral and socially undesirable has been the subject much recent critical inquiry within Fat Studies. This paper contributes to that literature with a re-reading of obesity discourse via what queer theorist Lee Edelman (2004) has called 'reproductive futurism'. Edelman contends that queerness figures the social order's death drive, …
We’re kind of devolving’
In recent years, analyses of mainstream media constructions of the obesity ‘epidemic’ have proliferated within fat studies. Of less attention has been the visual representation of obesity. This paper presents an analysis of one particular form of graphic representation of obesity, that of the ‘fat (d)evolution’ image. This image parodies the iconography of the ‘march of progress’ – a series of figures of ascending height illustrating the evolutio…
Fat/Trans
This article argues for a new approach to the intersection of fat/trans identities that moves beyond “additive” accounts or those that simply highlight parallel struggles. The analysis addresses the divergent accounts of the “malleability” of the body in fat and trans political discourses and how these might shape the lived experience of the fat/trans individual. However, rather than thinking of trans and fat as distinct phenomena, the article as…
Fat gay men
Over the past 10 to 15 years Fat Studies has developed apace within academia as a set of vibrant, exciting and necessary critiques of the contemporary (mis)treatment of fatness and fat people in so
Fucking failures
In the context of the obesity ‘epidemic’ fat people’s sex lives are cast as sterile, sexually dysfunctional or just plain non-existent. This article analyzes medical discourses of obesity and sex in order to argue that fat sex is constructed as a type of failure. Using insights from antisocial queer theory, fat sex is further shown to be queer in its failure to adhere to the specifically heteronormative dictates of what Edelman (2004) calls ‘repr…
Beyond the pregnant man
Every achievement of the past is cancelled out by the need to label the next achievement the ‘first’, making the framing of trans the framing of something exotic, different, a symptom of the modern
Transnormativity in the psy disciplines
The psy disciplines (i.e., psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy) have played a significant role in shaping understandings of transgender people's lives in ways that are transnormative (i.e., by emphasizing one particular account of what it means to be transgender). This article documents (a) how the rise of the psy disciplines created opportunities for transgender people to access treatment (but that such access often require…
Medical uncertainty and reproduction of the “normal”
In this work, we draw upon in-depth interview and focus group data from a three-year international study of 70 trans people (residing across Australia, Canada, the European Union, United Kingdom, and the United States) about their intentions and experiences around pregnancy, as well as 22 health care providers (practicing across Australia, Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States) with self-identified experience worki…
Getting beyond peeing and pronouns
Non-binary people make up just over half the UK trans population and younger people are more likely to identify as non-binary than those over 35 . Despite this increasing recognition, non-binary identities and experiences continue to be widely misunderstood. Similarly, if university trans inclusion policies focus solely on models of binary or medical transition, they will not fully address the needs of non-binary students. In the context of an in…
Why Is the Chubby Guy Running
Since the late 2000s trans pregnancy has received increasing public and academic attention, and stories of the ‘pregnant man’ have become a media staple. Existing research has critiqued such spectacularization and the supposed tension between maleness, masculinity, and pregnancy that underpins it. Extending that work, this article draws on interview data from an international study of trans reproductive practices and analyzes participants' experi…
Embodied Experiences of Trans Pregnancy
Drawing on interview data from the international project 'Pregnant Men: An International Exploration of Trans Male Experiences & Practices of Reproduction' this article explores embodied experiences of transmasculine and nonbinary pregnancy. Moving beyond the spectacle of the 'pregnant man', our analysis builds on existing literature on gendered embodiment to develop a deeper understanding of corporeality and the lived, bodily complexities of tra…
LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (7 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)