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Intimacy as Method in Trans Sex Research with H Howitt

Intimacy as Method in Trans Sex Research - Seminar 3 of the Materiality, Society and the More-than-Human International Seminar Series from the BSA New Materialisms Study Group took place online on 14 December 2023. This video contains depictions of sex acts, genitals and references to suicide and CSA. Speaker: H Howitt What does research look like when consent, creativity, and connection is valued over truth, rigor, and impact? What happens to academic knowledge production when we refuse the erotophobic sterility that lingers like a bad hangover from modernity’s myth of scientific superiority, and instead return to what we have always been: beings hard-wired to connect meaningfully with other humans, non-humans, and more-than-humans? In this DIY stop-motion video essay, H Howitt reflected on what a peculiar and terrifying time it is to be a trans disabled scholar, and showed how coalition building is the only way to unf--k ourselves. Drawing on their PhD project ‘how we f--k’, they show how love, hope, vulnerability and solidarity coalesce to produce what they term ‘intimacy as method’. Intimacy as method intervenes to help liberate both trans sex from its dominant narratives of suffering, and trans sex research from its customs of squeamishness and histories of Eurocentric philosophy.