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This summer, thanks to the Tanner Fellowship Award Fund, I was able to travel back to Buenos Aires and carry out a series of interviews while attending relevant events in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. This is part of my Senior Year Experience, an honors thesis in Anthropology where I will use diverse anthropological and feminist research methods to delve deeper into the reality of being a non-binary individual in Buenos Aires. In addition to interviewing and observation, I also took advantage of this opportunity to develop an auto ethnographical account of my own experiences, especially as a migrant who came from a working-class family, and as someone who lives outside of the capital city. What are the implications of my moving abroad? What do non-binary people in the province of Buenos Aires have in common with one another? What is our connection to history, and to historiographical projects? Is transness an automatic ticket to solidarity? I ask myself these and more questions throughout this process.
I took advantage of lessons I've learned in previous research projects, such as "Becoming the Dub", and received support from Dr. Wendi Haugh, as well as Dr. Adam Harr, during this project. My end goal is to produce a research paper I can submit to an undergraduate research journal.