Technical Communication Quarterly Jul 2019

Queering Tactical Technical Communication: DIY HRT

Avery C. Edenfield Utah State University ; Steve Holmes Texas Tech University ; Jared S. Colton

Abstract

Given the barriers for transgender people to access affordable gender-transition care, online environments have witnessed a rise in user-generated instruction sets providing direction on the self-administration of hormone therapy. These ethical forms of tactical technical communication demonstrate the need to consider a new materialist approach to queer theory, which refuses to align queer agency with stable identities. Drawing directly from these user-generated instructions, this article articulates a theoretical framework for queer, tactical technical communication.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2019-07-03
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10.1080/10572252.2019.1607906
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