Max van Midde
University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, Graduate Student
- Lund University, Graduate School, Alumnusadd
- Transgender Studies, Gender Studies, New Materialism, Autoethnography, Queer Theory, Transmasculinity, and 12 moreTransgender, Feminist Theory, Standpoint feminist theory, Gender, Intersectionality, Theories of Gender and Transgender, Transsexuality and Transgender, Body in Performance, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Studies, Affect (Cultural Theory), Translation criticism, and Language and Poweredit
- Max van Midde, an Indo trans guy, is a trans activist and scholar involved in exploring the complexities of the experienced corporeality of trans people. He recently graduated from the M.Sc. in Gender Studies at Lund University (Sweden), and has focused his studies within the field of transgender studies. He uses a new materialist perspective on matter and materiality to soften taboos around the materiality of trans embodiments.edit
This MSc thesis explores a transmasculine embodiment through bodies, acts, and objects, from a new materialist perspective. The study is situated within the field of transgender studies, and the research question, ‘how can transmasculine... more
This MSc thesis explores a transmasculine embodiment through bodies, acts, and objects, from a new materialist perspective. The study is situated within the field of transgender studies, and the research question, ‘how can transmasculine embodiment through the materialities of the body and everyday acts and objects be understood through new materialism’, is answered through an autoethnography. Key findings are that a) a trans-becoming emerges through the phenomenon of meeting someone’s eyes, b) through material-discursive practices transmasculine people work with and against the body, and c) onto-epistemologies of race and gender emerge through the interplay of temporal, spatial, and corporeal processes.
Research Interests:
"Trans materialities", special issue of Graduate Journal of Social Science, edited by Max van Midde, Ludovico Vick Virtu and Olga Cielemęcka This collection of essays, artistic contributions, and activist interventions puts on the agenda... more
"Trans materialities", special issue of Graduate Journal of Social Science, edited by Max van Midde, Ludovico Vick Virtu and Olga Cielemęcka
This collection of essays, artistic contributions, and activist interventions puts on the agenda the multiple constellations and meanings of trans materiality. The authors of essays featured in this special issue write and re-write trans materiality with auto-ethnography, new materialisms, posthumanisms, experiential and creative techniques, while engaging the legacy of trans studies scholarship, along with feminist and queer interventions and intersectional critique.
This collection of essays, artistic contributions, and activist interventions puts on the agenda the multiple constellations and meanings of trans materiality. The authors of essays featured in this special issue write and re-write trans materiality with auto-ethnography, new materialisms, posthumanisms, experiential and creative techniques, while engaging the legacy of trans studies scholarship, along with feminist and queer interventions and intersectional critique.