Katherine Fobear
Biographic Data
| ID | 144881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Fobear |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Fobear |
| SIGNATURE | FOBEAR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fresno |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4386-4234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Using International Human Rights to Address Anti-Transgender and Anti-Gender-Affirming Care Laws in the United States
Over the past five years, the number of new United States laws banning gender-affirming care, restricting public access to services and spaces for transgender and gender-diverse persons, and forcibly outing transgender youth in schools has increased dramatically. Much of the focus in the media and research has been on the domestic political and social causes of these anti-transgender and anti-gender-affirming care laws and their devastating effec…
Accessing Gender-Affirming Clinical Care in the Central Valley
This study delves into the necessity for gender-affirming practices, particularly focusing on the underrepresented transgender and non-binary communities in California’s Central Valley. Despite the recognized standards by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) for best practices in mental health care, adequately trained professionals in this region remains a notable scarcity. The paper highlights the heightened risks th…
We Don’t Get to Go Just Anywhere” Community Health Assessment of Barriers to Gender-Affirming Healthcare in Fresno, California
Research on access to healthcare for transgender populations in California remains mostly focused on the major city centers, leaving out many rural and poorer areas of the state. Understanding the barriers to gender-affirming healthcare in a largely rural, agricultural, and low-income area is critical in creating effective policies and programs to address significant gaps in transgender healthcare. This is especially true in regions like Fresno C…
Exploring the Oral History of the Fort Wayne Folk School through its Founder and Former Students
This article focuses on the history of the Fort Wayne Folk School in Fort Wayne, Indiana and its founder Terry Doran. From its outset, the Fort Wayne Folk School incited both excitement and harsh criticism from local authorities and the public. Terry’s process of remembering and reclaiming a new narrative for the Fort Wayne Folk School provided a revaluation of his life and work. In this endeavour, oral history is a means to document and engage i…
Resisting Genderphobia in Hungary
In this article, we connect illiberal populism in Hungary with the instrumentalizing of genderphobia through state policies starting from 2010. This became especially salient during the COVID-19 pandemic when a contentious state of emergency laws enabled the government’s ruling by decree. Analyzing relevant pieces of legislation and policy documents, we show how genderphobia became a fundamental feature of an expanding far-right agenda that has b…
The Precariousness of Home and Belonging Among Queer Refugees
This article explores the relationship between oral history and participatory photography for queer refugees as they create differing affectual and mnemonic relationships to the past and present in experiences of belonging and home. By intertwining oral history interviews with participatory photography by sexual minority refugees, this research interrogates the intimate and ephemeral spaces between narrative and affect, lived realities and “memor…
Pushing the conversation forward
It should be obvious that there are many different ways to be a human being ... We need to respect and embrace these differences – not criminalize them, not attack people, not deprive them of equal r
This painting is nice, but I wish it were more political.” Exploring the challenges and dilemmas of community art with LGBT refugees
The unsettling of shame
In their book, There Was This Goat, Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele investigate Mrs Notrose Nobomvu Konile’s testimony at the 1995 South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The authors explore the way the TRC disregarded Mrs Konile’s testimony about her son’s murder because they did not see it as a clear and straightforward narrative of victimhood. In the process of trying to understand Mrs Konile’s testimony and lif…
I Thought We Had No Rights” – Challenges in Listening, Storytelling, and Representation of LGBT Refugees
Storytelling serves as a vital resource for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* (LGBT) refugees’ access to asylum. It is through telling their personal stories to the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board that LGBT refugees’ claims for asylum are accessed and granted. Storytelling also serves as a mechanism for LGBT refugees to speak about social injustice within and outside of Canada. In this article, I explore the challenges of storytelling and …
Queer Settlers
Refugee and forced migration studies have focused primarily on the refugees’ countries of origin and the causes for migration. Yet it is also important to also critically investi- gate the processes, discourses, and structures of settlement in the places they migrate to. This has particular signifi- cance in settler states like Canada in which research on refugee and forced migration largely ignores the presence of Indigenous peoples, the history…
Queering Truth Commissions
Queering Truth Commissions Get access Katherine Fobear Katherine Fobear * *Katherine Fobear ([email protected]) is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her research has primarily focused on identity construction, community building, and oral history of disenfranchised lesbian, gay, transgendered and queer communities in North America and E…
Beyond A Lesbian Space? An Investigation on The Intergenerational Discourse Surrounding Lesbian Public Social Places in Amsterdam
This article investigates intergenerational discourse on public lesbian social spaces within Amsterdam, Netherlands. The author seeks to address how lesbian women from different generations talk about lesbian social spaces in Amsterdam through anthropological ethnographic research and semistructured interviews with 20 lesbian women who have or currently are attending these places. The author also addresses the gradual decline of lesbian specific …
Queering Truth Commissions
Queering Truth Commissions Get access Katherine Fobear Katherine Fobear * *Katherine Fobear ([email protected]) is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her research has primarily focused on identity construction, community building, and oral history of disenfranchised lesbian, gay, transgendered and queer communities in North America and E…
Beyond A Lesbian Space? An Investigation on The Intergenerational Discourse Surrounding Lesbian Public Social Places in Amsterdam
This article investigates intergenerational discourse on public lesbian social spaces within Amsterdam, Netherlands. The author seeks to address how lesbian women from different generations talk about lesbian social spaces in Amsterdam through anthropological ethnographic research and semistructured interviews with 20 lesbian women who have or currently are attending these places. The author also addresses the gradual decline of lesbian specific …
Resisting Genderphobia in Hungary
In this article, we connect illiberal populism in Hungary with the instrumentalizing of genderphobia through state policies starting from 2010. This became especially salient during the COVID-19 pandemic when a contentious state of emergency laws enabled the government’s ruling by decree. Analyzing relevant pieces of legislation and policy documents, we show how genderphobia became a fundamental feature of an expanding far-right agenda that has b…
Pushing the conversation forward
It should be obvious that there are many different ways to be a human being ... We need to respect and embrace these differences – not criminalize them, not attack people, not deprive them of equal r
This painting is nice, but I wish it were more political.” Exploring the challenges and dilemmas of community art with LGBT refugees
Queer Settlers
Refugee and forced migration studies have focused primarily on the refugees’ countries of origin and the causes for migration. Yet it is also important to also critically investi- gate the processes, discourses, and structures of settlement in the places they migrate to. This has particular signifi- cance in settler states like Canada in which research on refugee and forced migration largely ignores the presence of Indigenous peoples, the history…
I Thought We Had No Rights” – Challenges in Listening, Storytelling, and Representation of LGBT Refugees
Storytelling serves as a vital resource for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* (LGBT) refugees’ access to asylum. It is through telling their personal stories to the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board that LGBT refugees’ claims for asylum are accessed and granted. Storytelling also serves as a mechanism for LGBT refugees to speak about social injustice within and outside of Canada. In this article, I explore the challenges of storytelling and …
We Don’t Get to Go Just Anywhere” Community Health Assessment of Barriers to Gender-Affirming Healthcare in Fresno, California
Research on access to healthcare for transgender populations in California remains mostly focused on the major city centers, leaving out many rural and poorer areas of the state. Understanding the barriers to gender-affirming healthcare in a largely rural, agricultural, and low-income area is critical in creating effective policies and programs to address significant gaps in transgender healthcare. This is especially true in regions like Fresno C…
The Precariousness of Home and Belonging Among Queer Refugees
This article explores the relationship between oral history and participatory photography for queer refugees as they create differing affectual and mnemonic relationships to the past and present in experiences of belonging and home. By intertwining oral history interviews with participatory photography by sexual minority refugees, this research interrogates the intimate and ephemeral spaces between narrative and affect, lived realities and “memor…
Beyond A Lesbian Space? An Investigation on The Intergenerational Discourse Surrounding Lesbian Public Social Places in Amsterdam
This article investigates intergenerational discourse on public lesbian social spaces within Amsterdam, Netherlands. The author seeks to address how lesbian women from different generations talk about lesbian social spaces in Amsterdam through anthropological ethnographic research and semistructured interviews with 20 lesbian women who have or currently are attending these places. The author also addresses the gradual decline of lesbian specific …
Queering Truth Commissions
Queering Truth Commissions Get access Katherine Fobear Katherine Fobear * *Katherine Fobear ([email protected]) is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her research has primarily focused on identity construction, community building, and oral history of disenfranchised lesbian, gay, transgendered and queer communities in North America and E…
Queer Settlers
Refugee and forced migration studies have focused primarily on the refugees’ countries of origin and the causes for migration. Yet it is also important to also critically investi- gate the processes, discourses, and structures of settlement in the places they migrate to. This has particular signifi- cance in settler states like Canada in which research on refugee and forced migration largely ignores the presence of Indigenous peoples, the history…
I Thought We Had No Rights” – Challenges in Listening, Storytelling, and Representation of LGBT Refugees
Storytelling serves as a vital resource for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* (LGBT) refugees’ access to asylum. It is through telling their personal stories to the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board that LGBT refugees’ claims for asylum are accessed and granted. Storytelling also serves as a mechanism for LGBT refugees to speak about social injustice within and outside of Canada. In this article, I explore the challenges of storytelling and …
This painting is nice, but I wish it were more political.” Exploring the challenges and dilemmas of community art with LGBT refugees
The unsettling of shame
In their book, There Was This Goat, Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele investigate Mrs Notrose Nobomvu Konile’s testimony at the 1995 South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The authors explore the way the TRC disregarded Mrs Konile’s testimony about her son’s murder because they did not see it as a clear and straightforward narrative of victimhood. In the process of trying to understand Mrs Konile’s testimony and lif…
Pushing the conversation forward
It should be obvious that there are many different ways to be a human being ... We need to respect and embrace these differences – not criminalize them, not attack people, not deprive them of equal r
Resisting Genderphobia in Hungary
In this article, we connect illiberal populism in Hungary with the instrumentalizing of genderphobia through state policies starting from 2010. This became especially salient during the COVID-19 pandemic when a contentious state of emergency laws enabled the government’s ruling by decree. Analyzing relevant pieces of legislation and policy documents, we show how genderphobia became a fundamental feature of an expanding far-right agenda that has b…
The Precariousness of Home and Belonging Among Queer Refugees
This article explores the relationship between oral history and participatory photography for queer refugees as they create differing affectual and mnemonic relationships to the past and present in experiences of belonging and home. By intertwining oral history interviews with participatory photography by sexual minority refugees, this research interrogates the intimate and ephemeral spaces between narrative and affect, lived realities and “memor…
Exploring the Oral History of the Fort Wayne Folk School through its Founder and Former Students
This article focuses on the history of the Fort Wayne Folk School in Fort Wayne, Indiana and its founder Terry Doran. From its outset, the Fort Wayne Folk School incited both excitement and harsh criticism from local authorities and the public. Terry’s process of remembering and reclaiming a new narrative for the Fort Wayne Folk School provided a revaluation of his life and work. In this endeavour, oral history is a means to document and engage i…
Accessing Gender-Affirming Clinical Care in the Central Valley
This study delves into the necessity for gender-affirming practices, particularly focusing on the underrepresented transgender and non-binary communities in California’s Central Valley. Despite the recognized standards by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) for best practices in mental health care, adequately trained professionals in this region remains a notable scarcity. The paper highlights the heightened risks th…
We Don’t Get to Go Just Anywhere” Community Health Assessment of Barriers to Gender-Affirming Healthcare in Fresno, California
Research on access to healthcare for transgender populations in California remains mostly focused on the major city centers, leaving out many rural and poorer areas of the state. Understanding the barriers to gender-affirming healthcare in a largely rural, agricultural, and low-income area is critical in creating effective policies and programs to address significant gaps in transgender healthcare. This is especially true in regions like Fresno C…
Using International Human Rights to Address Anti-Transgender and Anti-Gender-Affirming Care Laws in the United States
Over the past five years, the number of new United States laws banning gender-affirming care, restricting public access to services and spaces for transgender and gender-diverse persons, and forcibly outing transgender youth in schools has increased dramatically. Much of the focus in the media and research has been on the domestic political and social causes of these anti-transgender and anti-gender-affirming care laws and their devastating effec…
Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Politics (4 works)