Introducing the special issue

On Intersex Joy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4367135
AutoresCeleste E Orr (0009-0002-0735-8390, University of New Brunswick, autor correspondente), Casey Burkholder (0000-0003-3979-7021, Concordia University)
Ano2025
Volume27
Fascículo2
Páginas123-136
Data de publicação2025-08-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14647001251367024
OpenAlexW4413811661
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas36

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. Intersex and anti-interphobic perspectives and testimonies can open up a well-spring of ideas in feminist thinking about joy and happiness. Some of the questions we ask include: How might critical intersex studies scholars and intersex activists/advocates prompt feminist scholars to rethink or reimagine happiness? How do intersex studies scholars', activists' and advocates' understandings and experiences of joy challenge interphobia? How does intersex joy interrupt the presumption that intersex people's lives are always and already doom and gloom unless they conform to endonormativity

Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexual Differentiation and Disorders