re discussion group personae

[pynchonoid]

from the FemPTheoryQueer-aoir.org mailing list today:

[...]  My dissertation is an ethnography
inspired study of a Scandinavian discussion group for
lesbian and
bisexual women. I look at how they construct and
negotiate group
culture, gender and sexual identity – and how they
relate to in
particular two contexts: the mediated context and
discourses of the Net
as a communication arena – and the Scandinavian gay
minority subculture
– and in particular discourses of identity, gender and
sexuality, on
different levels (both within the heteronormative
society, but mostly
how such understandings are created and negotiated on
the list and in
within the subculture).
An important focus in the study that sort of forced
itself to become
important, is the aspect of anonymity,
self-presentations and
existence, as it was discovered along the way that
four of the
long-term participants over four years were produced
by a man. This
made the group dissolve afterwards. At the moment I am
working with
trying to discuss why.. The thing is that he was
‘revealed’ anonymously
by a group of participants – originally because there
was a huge debate
about identity politics and transsexual’s position
within the lesbian
community. The problem was originally not that the
revealers though he
was male – but they thought it was one particular
woman (the leader of
a radical feminist movement in Scandinavia) being
several characters to
gain more support for her political meanings -> and  a
democratic
problem on the list if it was so. So the aspect of
being plural in a
discussion group context seems to be as important as
the writer being
situated in the ‘wrong material body’.  [...]



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