Celeste E Orr
Biographic Data
| ID | 1634758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Celeste E Orr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Celeste E |
| FAMILY NAME | Orr |
| SIGNATURE | ORR C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Brunswick |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-0735-8390 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Temporal disobedience
This article theorizes inter time as a critical intervention into normative life courses governed by whiteness, cisheteronormativity, able-bodiedness and endonormativity. We explore how intersex people are positioned as temporal disruptions: outside, behind, or threatening to linear, coherent timelines of birth, reproduction, productivity, and death. Building on queer, crip, Indigenous, and Black temporalities, we develop the notion of inter time…
Compulsory dandyism
This contribution features a conversation between Dr Christopher Breu, Dr Celeste E Orr and Dr Casey Burkholder at the On Intersex Joy (2025) event held at Concordia University, USA in July 2025. We asked a series of questions to centre the opportunities and limits to intersex joy, like 'what are the limits to joy or accessing joy?' and 'in what ways can intersex embodiment be a source of strength, affirmation and celebration?'. The article also …
I've grown fearful of any rustle behind me
Marginalised people fear and expect violence, often daily. This prompts us to ask, is anticipating violence a violence in and of itself? Asking and answering this question extends the feminist, critical race, violence and trauma studies project of broadening traditional understandings of violence to name ignored forms of violence as violence (e.g. epistemic or representational violence). Ultimately, we argue that anticipating discriminatory viole…
Introducing the special issue
While intersex studies and activism understandably focus on violence, trauma and anger to fight against the myriad forms of interphobia, various intersex people, scholars and activists seem to be turning to joy to resist deficit frameworks. Responding to this turn, our introduction to the special issue 'On Intersex Joy' unpacks and theorises the potential of placing intersex studies in conversation with feminist theorisations of joy and happiness…
Feminist Loneliness Studies
Writing about loneliness has been a struggle in the midst of the pandemic. Characterized by loneliness, isolation, anxiety, and fear, the COVID-19 pandemic is an exceptionally challenging time. At various points while navigating this loneliness project amid a particularly lonely time, we lamented the seeming futility of it all. A main goal of developing a Feminist Loneliness Studies in this introduction is to understand the ways that systems of o…
Feminist Loneliness Studies
Writing about loneliness has been a struggle in the midst of the pandemic. Characterized by loneliness, isolation, anxiety, and fear, the COVID-19 pandemic is an exceptionally challenging time. At various points while navigating this loneliness project amid a particularly lonely time, we lamented the seeming futility of it all. A main goal of developing a Feminist Loneliness Studies in this introduction is to understand the ways that systems of o…
Feminist Loneliness Studies
Writing about loneliness has been a struggle in the midst of the pandemic. Characterized by loneliness, isolation, anxiety, and fear, the COVID-19 pandemic is an exceptionally challenging time. At various points while navigating this loneliness project amid a particularly lonely time, we lamented the seeming futility of it all. A main goal of developing a Feminist Loneliness Studies in this introduction is to understand the ways that systems of o…
Temporal disobedience
This article theorizes inter time as a critical intervention into normative life courses governed by whiteness, cisheteronormativity, able-bodiedness and endonormativity. We explore how intersex people are positioned as temporal disruptions: outside, behind, or threatening to linear, coherent timelines of birth, reproduction, productivity, and death. Building on queer, crip, Indigenous, and Black temporalities, we develop the notion of inter time…
Compulsory dandyism
This contribution features a conversation between Dr Christopher Breu, Dr Celeste E Orr and Dr Casey Burkholder at the On Intersex Joy (2025) event held at Concordia University, USA in July 2025. We asked a series of questions to centre the opportunities and limits to intersex joy, like 'what are the limits to joy or accessing joy?' and 'in what ways can intersex embodiment be a source of strength, affirmation and celebration?'. The article also …
I've grown fearful of any rustle behind me
Marginalised people fear and expect violence, often daily. This prompts us to ask, is anticipating violence a violence in and of itself? Asking and answering this question extends the feminist, critical race, violence and trauma studies project of broadening traditional understandings of violence to name ignored forms of violence as violence (e.g. epistemic or representational violence). Ultimately, we argue that anticipating discriminatory viole…
Introducing the special issue
While intersex studies and activism understandably focus on violence, trauma and anger to fight against the myriad forms of interphobia, various intersex people, scholars and activists seem to be turning to joy to resist deficit frameworks. Responding to this turn, our introduction to the special issue 'On Intersex Joy' unpacks and theorises the potential of placing intersex studies in conversation with feminist theorisations of joy and happiness…
Psychology (3 works) · Sexual Differentiation and Disorders (3 works) · Ableism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 works) · Capitalism (1 works) · Conversation (1 works) · Conversation analysis (1 works)