Boka En

Boka En, BA (Hons) MSc

Gender Research Office

Boka En (they/them) has been publishing and teaching in Gender & Sexuality Studies since 2011, particularly on intimacies/sexualities/relationships, LGBTIQ* movements and im-/possibilities of emancipatory learning spaces. They a founding member of the Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies conference series, which seeks to bring together academics, activists, artists, therapists/counsellors and (other) practitioners, as well as the working group Inter*Trans_Nonbinary in the Austrian Gender Studies Association. Boka’s PhD project is centred around inclusions and exclusions within and across LGBTIQ*-related activism and academia, particularly in relation to knowledge politics, legitimacy and ethical expectations. Currently, they also work as coordinator at the Gender Research Office at the University of Vienna.

Recent publications

2022. En, Boka & En-Griffiths, David. Power as usual? Intersectionality, Performativity, and BDSM in the West. In: Biele Mefebue, Astrid; Bührmann, Andrea; Grenz, Sabine (eds.) Handbuch Intersektionalitätsforschung. Springer.
2021. En, Boka. The My absent_present queer body in academia. Queer STS Forum, 6.
2021. Gleichbehandlungsanwaltschaft Österreich (ed.): Geschlechtersensible Sprache – Dialog auf Augenhöhe.
2020. En, Boka. Categorisation and Recognition: Musings on Misfitting and Misunderstanding. In: En, Michael (ed.) Truths, Trust and Translation: A festschrift, love letter and thank you to Michèle Cooke, 85–100. Peter Lang.
2020. En, Boka & En, Michael; with En-Griffiths, David; Pilz, Felix; Pöll, Mer; Rosenthaler, Max. Beziehung(s)formen im queeren Alltag. In: Schadler, Cornelia & Raab, Michel (Hrsg.) Polyfantastisch? Nichtmonogamie als emanzipatorische Praxis, 45–63. Unrast-Verlag.
2019. En, Michael & En, Boka. “Coming out” … as a translator? Expertise, identities and knowledge practices in an LGBTIQ* migrant community translation project. Translation Studies, 12(2), 213–230.