Queer Borderlands Life: Being Bisexual and/or Non-Binary in Australia

This thesis explores the lived experiences of bisexual and/or non-binary people in the colonial state of “Australia”, presenting a nuanced account of identity in the "queer borderlands" through the conceptual lenses of postcolonial, queer, trans, and feminist theories. The research, situat...

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Main Author: Farquhar, Misty-Glo Belinda
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2024
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97694
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description This thesis explores the lived experiences of bisexual and/or non-binary people in the colonial state of “Australia”, presenting a nuanced account of identity in the "queer borderlands" through the conceptual lenses of postcolonial, queer, trans, and feminist theories. The research, situated in a context marked by binary expectations and societal norms or hetero-cisnormativity, challenges the limited visibility and reductive narratives of bisexual and/or non-binary identities in mainstream discourse and health research. Utilising a mixed methods approach of qualitative surveys and interviews, the study foregrounds subjective narratives to reveal the resilience and complexity inherent in queer identities that disrupt binary constructs of sexuality and gender.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-976942025-07-01T00:28:06Z Queer Borderlands Life: Being Bisexual and/or Non-Binary in Australia Farquhar, Misty-Glo Belinda This thesis explores the lived experiences of bisexual and/or non-binary people in the colonial state of “Australia”, presenting a nuanced account of identity in the "queer borderlands" through the conceptual lenses of postcolonial, queer, trans, and feminist theories. The research, situated in a context marked by binary expectations and societal norms or hetero-cisnormativity, challenges the limited visibility and reductive narratives of bisexual and/or non-binary identities in mainstream discourse and health research. Utilising a mixed methods approach of qualitative surveys and interviews, the study foregrounds subjective narratives to reveal the resilience and complexity inherent in queer identities that disrupt binary constructs of sexuality and gender. 2024 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97694 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Farquhar, Misty-Glo Belinda
Queer Borderlands Life: Being Bisexual and/or Non-Binary in Australia
title Queer Borderlands Life: Being Bisexual and/or Non-Binary in Australia
title_full Queer Borderlands Life: Being Bisexual and/or Non-Binary in Australia
title_fullStr Queer Borderlands Life: Being Bisexual and/or Non-Binary in Australia
title_full_unstemmed Queer Borderlands Life: Being Bisexual and/or Non-Binary in Australia
title_short Queer Borderlands Life: Being Bisexual and/or Non-Binary in Australia
title_sort queer borderlands life: being bisexual and/or non-binary in australia
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97694