GLINTS: Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary and Trans Studies
Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary and Trans Studies (GLINTS) provides a multi-disciplinary, cross-College space for nurturing the research of academics and research students working in trans studies, broadly conceived.
Trans studies is an established interdisciplinary field that includes (but is not limited to) enquiries into: the meaning of gender as a socially constructed, relational, and historically contingent category; the lives and experiences of people in the past and present who live in some way at odds with the gender they were assigned at birth; strategies for addressing the oppression that intersex, non-binary, and trans people have faced and continue to face; and creative practice that responds either to abstract conceptualisations of the meaning of gender or to trans lived experience.
Our current members engage with research and teaching in this field from disciplinary perspectives that include Classics, Creative Writing, Community Development, Economic and Social History, Education, Geography, History, Media and Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Planning, Insight and Analytics, Public Health, and Sociology.
We are committed to interrogating, understanding, and improving the social, political, and material conditions that shape intersex, non-binary, and trans lives, in an academic environment that respects and affirms intersex, non-binary, and trans people.
Co-directors
Sasha de Buyl (School of Critical Studies — Creative Writing)
Kirstie Ken English (School of Social & Political Sciences — Sociology)
Harvey Humphrey (School of Social & Political Sciences — Media and Cultural Studies)
Katharine Jenkins (School of Humanities — Philosophy)
Ruth Pearce (School of Education — Community Development)
Isabel Ruffell (School of Humanities — Classics)
Samuel Rutherford (School of Humanities— History)
Antonio Ivan Sánchez Hervás (School of Social & Political Sciences — Economic & Social
History)
Jay Todd (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences — Geography)