Dr Kirsty Lohman

This work was in collaboration with Dr Ruth Pearce.

This small-scale research project investigated the links between gender identity and subcultural organisation in the emerging trans music/perfomance communities of the early 2010s. Work as part of this project functioned as a ‘pilot study’ for my later research on broader queer and/or feminist punk and DIY scenes.

publications

'Deconstructing DIY identities in a trans music scene' (2019)
by Ruth Pearce and Kirsty Lohman
Sexualities, 22(1-2): 97-113
Journal article / Open access version

‘DIY identities in a DIY scene: trans music in the UK’ (2019)
by Kirsty Lohman and Ruth Pearce
in Ruth Pearce, Igi Moon, Kat Gupta, & Deborah Lynn Steinberg (editors)
The Emergence of Trans: Cultures, Politics and Everyday Lives
London: Routledge, pp. 68-84
Book / Open access chapter

selected conference papers (full list here)

‘Punk and Politics from the Netherlands to the UK: An Academic journey and a personal journey’
Seminar Presentation
Departmental Research Afternoon, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey
December 2016

‘‘No Borders’: contesting boundaries in feminist and queer DIY punk’
IASPM-UK postgraduate conference, University of Surrey
October 2017

‘Subculture (or not?): identity and inclusion in trans performance events’
IAS Symposium, University of Warwick
June 2013, with Dr Ruth Pearce

‘Trans Music Isn’t: De/constructing DIY Identity’
ESRC Seminar Series, University of Warwick, ‘Trans as Everyday Culture’
May 2013, with Dr Ruth Pearce