CV

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• Msc. Gender Studies (with merit) | London School of Economics | October 2000
• Bsc. Psychology and Philosophy | London School of Economics | July 1999

• Baird, Josephine. 2019. "Trans/National Queer Parenting: Or, How We Conceived, Birthed, and Parent a Child across Hetero- and Cis- Normative National, Legal and Social Lines." lamda nordica 24:2-3 191 - 206.
• Baird, Josephine. 2019. “ROGD: En farlig myt.” Socionomen 6:3 38 – 39. 
• Krieg, Josephine. 2013. “A Social Model of Trans and Crip Theory: Narratives and Strategies in the Redefinition of the Pathologized Trans Subject.” lamda nordica 18:3-4 33 – 53. 
• Wilson, Josephine. 2009. “Not So Much ‘MTF’ as ‘SPTBMTQFF’: The Identification of a Trans Femme-inist.” In Visible: A Femmethology Volume One edited by Jennifer Clare Burke, 26 - 30. Michigan: Homofactus Press.
• Wilson, Josephine. 2005. “What Do Lecturers Wear?” In One Teacher in 10 edited by Kevin Jennings (2nded.), 88 – 93. Los Angeles: Alyson Publications.
• Wilson, Josephine. 2002. “Re-Presenting the Represented: A Reflection on the Multi-Layered Representations of Varied Trans Subjectivities.” In Gender Institute Research in Progress Series 2, June 2002 (special issue).

• Baird, Josephine. 2020. “The Missing: Trans exploration, expression and embodiment in video-game-based-learning” at Future and Reality of Gaming Conference, Vienna University, 21 – 22 November, Vienna.
• Linnamäki, Jori and Josephine Baird. 2020. “An Approach to Board Game Design that Centers Allyship and Empowers Trans People” at Future and Reality of Gaming Conference, Vienna University, 21 – 22 November, Vienna.
• Linnamäki, Jori and Josephine Baird. 2020. “A Reflection on the Ethical Decision-Making Process During Participatory Game Design and for Vulnerable Populations” as part of the “Art as Feminist Research, Art as Feminist Activism” at The Gender Studies Conference 2020, Tampere University, 12 – 13 November, Tampere.
• Baird Josephine. 2019. “Being Trans in Education, Then and Now: The Experience of Being Trans in The Academy at all Levels Spanning More than Two Decades.” Paper presented at Trans, Non-binary and Intersex (in) Education: The 7th Nordic Transgender Studies Network Symposium, 14-15 November, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University.
• Baird Josephine. 2018. “The Never-Ending Story of the Trans/Gender Debate: Or, Trans Exclusionary (Radical?) Feminism Then and Now.” Paper presented at the British Psychological Society, Psychology of Sexualities Conference, 5 – 6 July, London.
• Krieg, Josephine. 2015. “Do Something Different and Look Cool Doing It.” Paper presented at the Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola Första Gemensamma Terminstart, 31 August, Stockholm.
• Krieg, Josephine. 2014 “The Power of Laughter: The Performative Challenge of Satirical Writing and Performance in Trans Politics, Theory, and Activism.” Paper presented at Excitable Writing: Transforming Academia, Art, Activism conference, 8 – 10 December, Linköping University.
• Krieg, Josephine. 2013. “Trans(gender) Medical Technologies: A Socio-political Historiography of Their Development, Implementation and Cultural Conception.” Paper presented at The Society of the History of Technology Annual Meeting, 10 – 13 October, Portland, Maine.
• Krieg, Josephine. 2012. “Trans Act/ivism: The Theory and Practice of Trans Political Performance.” Paper presented at The Council of Transgender of Europe, 7 – 9 September, Dublin University.
• Krieg, Josephine. 2012. “An Intersection of Trans and Crip Theory: Narratives and Strategies in the Redefinition of the Medical Model and the Pathologised Trans Subject.” Paper presented at Trans Rights as Human Rights – The Implications for Trans Health(care) Conference, 8 – 10 May, Linköping University.
• Bylund, Christine and Josephine Krieg. 2011. “Perform for Justice! Disability and Performance as a Political Act.” Paper presented at ULOBA Jubilee Conference, 17 June, Oslo.
• Krieg, Josephine. 2010. “Gender and Transgender.” Paper presented at Genderqueer University: Questioning Norms in Higher Education conference, 14 – 21 March, Council of Europe Strasbourg.
• Wilson, Josephine. 2008. “Queer Theory and the Inclusion of Trans.” Paper presented at ANSO Students for Transgender Conference, 16 – 20 May, Århus.
• Wilson, Josephine. 2007. “LGBTQ Identity Wars.” Paper presented at Transfabulous, 15 – 17 June, London.
• Wilson, Josephine. 2006. “Unboxing Trans/Gender.” Paper presented at Who’s in the Box, 7 June, Science Museum London.
• Wilson, Josephine. 2005. “A Multi-narrative Approach to Multi-site Subjectivities: The Deconstruction of a Unitary Understanding of Trans Subjectivity Through Narrative Research.” Paper presented at LSE Postgraduate Seminars in Body and Narrative, London.

I am currently a lecturer in game design at Uppsala University Department of Game Design. I have lectured and taught at the university level and given professional and equalities training since 2002. In the UK I have done so at institutions like The London School of Economics (LSE), South Bank University, University College London, The British Film Institute, University of Kent, University of West England, LGBT mental health organization PACE amongst many others. After moving to Sweden, I have done similarly at institutions like ABF, Karolinska Institut, Kulturhuset, Arbetsförmedlingen, Stockholm University amongst others. In the early 2000s I also designed and maintained online teaching materials during my time at the LSE as well as designed websites for other feminist academic initiatives.

I am currently (since July 2020 to present) employed as a game designer and consultant at the Department of Game Design at Uppsala University, Sweden. With colleagues at The Games & Society Lab there, I am currently working on game that concerns the teaching of trans allyship. 

I have been an activist for LGBTQ and disabilities rights since 2000 when I first worked for Stonewall Lobby group (2000 – 2001, and again 2002) and then Attitude is Everything (2003 – 2007), both in the UK. Since then I have worked with the likes of ILGA World, RFSL, RFSU, TGEU, ULOBA, ANSO, SFQ, Queer Beograd, Le Madame Poland, amongst many others. In my capacity as an activist, I have presented and spoken on the topics of LGBTQ issues in front of parliamentarians, social service providers, media, and fellow activists in any number of arenas and occasions over the last 20 years.

I have recently launched a new podcast, "It Is Complicated," with Dr J in which we discuss a different personal, cultural and social issues each week. The podcast can be listened to on all major podcast platforms and at http://www.itiscomplicated.me

• My initial artistic background is in dance and live performance but I branched out into other mediums including music and film since 2004. My credits include acting, writing, producing and directing collaborative and solo projects on both large and small scales. This has led to a wide-ranging body of work that is multi-disciplinary in both content and medium. I have often combined my artistic and scholarly work not least because I believe the two inform each other on many significant levels. This has meant that I have often performed at scholarly conferences as well as presented papers there.
• Notable examples of my work on the stage include a series of solo shows on themes of sex, gender and sexualities, which I have performed for many years for both entertainment and education. Some of this work is documented in Eliza Steinbock’s (2015) chapter “Disfiguration On Violence and Negative Art” in Christine Erharter et al’s edited collection Pink Labor on Golden Streets: Queer Art Practices. Other notable stage appearances include a role written for me in Suzanne Osten’s feminist reworking of Glada Änkan at the Folkoperan from September 2008 to January 2009.
• Notable film credits include appearing in Zemirah Moffat’s documentary ethnography of queer performance Mirror Mirror (2006), which was analysed in Sarah Pink’s book Doing Visual Ethnography (2007). The film The Lovers and Fighters Convention (2009) documents a show that I directed and appeared in during the Transfabulous festival in the UK. And Dyke Hard (2015) is an award-winning Swedish queer feature film.
• Most recently I have turned to visual art, which like my performance work takes as its subject themes of sex, gender and sexualities. A two-page comic examining queer resilience in everyday life appears in Ottar (issue 3, 2019) and a digital painting of mine depicting a set of queer familial constellations appears on the cover of the most recent issue of lamda nordica (2019, 24:2-3). You can view some of my art at  https://www.instagram.com/josephineabaird/  and  https://ko-fi.com/josephineabaird/