Be part of a new study: “LGBT Families: the new minority?”

Here’s a cross post from the Anarchist Academics Listserv. See end of post for the questionnaire and an abstract of the study.

Hi all!

We’re doing a research about alternative families, LGBTQ, anarchist,
squatters, single parents ….

We will present the results in October in Jjubljana in Slovina.

So please spread our Questionnaire on Mailing-Lists for people, who
could be interested. We need the answers until 30th of August 2009

Thanks a lot!
Utta, Hannes and Mate

questionnaire

QUEER/ALTERNATIVE FAMILIES

IN LIBERTARIAN SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXTS

Dear participants,

Here are questions for our interview on LGBT/alternative families in libertarian socio-political context. Please note that this is narrative and open interview and that these questions are only guidelines/directions of our general interests. But since we see you as equal participant of this project feel free to change and intervene how is it best for you.

Once more, thank you very much for your time and effort to help us. We send you warm greetings…
Love, peace and anarchy,

Hannes, Mate and Utta
NAME/NICKNAME:

COUNTRY:
Personal data:

a) age:

b) how do you define your sex/or/gender?:

c) what is your sexual identity?:

d) how do you define yourself in terms of class and race/ethnicity?:

e) how many children you have?

f) Are you a part of any radical places (communities, groups, culture)? Which?

• In what type of household are you living?  Does your household equalize your family (e.g. do you live only with your family in one place or you share it with more people)? Can you describe it shortly?
• How is you household organized? (Who is cleaning the flat? How do you share goods? Etc.)

• Who (which persons) are part of your family? Why?
• How did you form your family (is it by chance or by choice)? With who you formed it? Why with them? What is sex/or/gender identity of that person? What is sexual orientation of that person? What were difficulties or obstacles to form it?
• How are your parents roles shared in your family? Do you do it alone or you have support from the side (housemates, parents, some social network)? How are you feeling about this?
• Why is your family an alternate form of family? What makes it different from other families? What you at all consider by term “family” and do you describe your form of family as “family” at all? Why?
• How you look your formed family in comparison with your originate family (where you were rise in)? What are similarities/differences? What did you wanted to change? Did it worked out?

• How you feel as queer/alternative parent in everyday life? What are the problems? What are the fears? What is the proud?
• What would be your wishes to better your situations?
• In which areas you would need support from wider society (neighborhood, institutions, bigger family of friends)? 

• How do you see your alternative family in relation to your wider (radical/political/activist) identities? Which identity (sexual, political, etc.) had biggest part in forming your family? Why?
• How do you think that issue of alternative family is under/presented in wider social and political communities (e.g. in radical circles, in wider LGBT politics)? Why is so?
• What you would articulate as important (in political terms) for bettering of the situation of your family?
• What you see as utopian ideal of the famili(y)es? Why?
• What kind of society we would need to create alternative social forms/families with less violence and less hierarchy?

• PLACE TO WRITING ANYTHING ELSE WE FORGOT TO ASK:

Please, send us back your answers, latest until 30^th of august:

Johannes.dollinger@uni-klu.ac.at

matecosic@gmail.com

utta.isop@uni-klu.ac.at