Outing Duoethnography as a Queer Methodology

Born from my use of queer theory and duoethnography in my doctoral research, I out duoethnography’s queer tendencies. Informed by my queer positionality and time spent with both queer and duoethnography, I reveal duoethnography as a queer methodology. I highlight duoethnography’s flexibility as methodology and praxis with queer’s movement between identity and theory. While revealing the queer progeny of duoethnography, I also resist a normative limitation of queer to sex, sexuality and gender. By reframing duoethnography’s tenets into clusters of “knowing – the other – fluidly,” I illustrate duoethnography’s accessibility to queers and grant it a queer sensibility. With queer and duoethnography being lived experiences, I share experiences from my time with duoethnography’s queerness in my doctoral journey.