# Sonny Nordmarken [sonnynordmarken.wordpress.com](https://sonnynordmarken.wordpress.com/) ## Description American sociologist whose qualitative, interview-based research addresses transgender identity formation, misgendering, and the structural barriers transgender people encounter in healthcare and daily interaction, alongside everyday forms of trans resistance and resilience. ## Key Tags #trans #sociology #theorist ## Essential Works - "Coming Into Identity: How Gender Minorities Experience Identity-Formation." *Gender & Society*, vol. 37, no. 4, 2023, pp. 584–613 - central study of trans/gender-minority identity formation - "Becoming Ever More Monstrous: Feeling Transgender In-Betweenness." *Qualitative Inquiry*, vol. 20, no. 1, 2014, pp. 37–50 - theorizes transgender in-betweenness through the figure of the monstrous - "Microaggressions." *Transgender Studies Quarterly*, vol. 1, no. 1–2, 2014, pp. 129–134 - foundational encyclopedia entry defining the concept for trans studies - *Radiant Selves: Gender Rebels and the Making of a New Reality* (forthcoming, NYU Press) - book project under contract ## Details Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgia State University. Research agenda examines "the relational processes that maintain complex inequalities in the lives of gender minorities, and the strategies social actors use to resist these operations of power" — work spanning identity-formation, chronic misgendering (including among transgender graduate students), and administrative violence in healthcare systems. ### Concepts and Theories - [[Monster Studies]] - "Becoming Ever More Monstrous" theorizes transgender in-betweenness through the figure of the monstrous, alongside Halberstam's and Stryker's work in the field ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - Georgia State University - Assistant Professor of Sociology ## References ### Cited/Appears In - [[0020 - Children of the Night]] - "Becoming Ever More Monstrous: Feeling Transgender In-Betweenness" is quoted twice in the video essay, in both its "Epicene Style" and "Liberation" sections ### Primary Sources Bibliography Nordmarken, Sonny. "Coming Into Identity: How Gender Minorities Experience Identity-Formation." *Gender & Society*, vol. 37, no. 4, 2023, pp. 584–613. ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none identified — contemporary working scholar; no established secondary literature about his own work yet %%