Wibke Straube is Associate Professor in Gender Studies and works at Karlstad University (Kau) in Sweden. Apart from investigating feminist didactics and autoethnographic methodologies, their research explores trans and non-binary cultural production and trans liveabilities in times of ecological crisis. Currently, they are working on a book on endocrine disruption in science and populist discourses, Nordic purity politics and transartistic interventions into anti-gender discourses. Among others, they regularly host the trans studies research residency at Kau and collaborate with the WEIRD research group at Helsinki University.

Selected publications
Straube, Wibke. 2024. “Molecular Rebellions. Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Aesthetics of Contamination in Trans Performance Art.” NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 32 (3), 253–265. https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2024.2376749

Straube, Wibke. 2024. “Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals,” Hormonal Theory: Rebellious Cascades, edited by Andrea Ford, Sone Erikainen, Roslyn Malcolm, Lisa Raeder, Celia Roberts, pp. 81 – 90. Bloomsbury Academic Press. 

Straube, Wibke. 2019. “Toxic Bodies: Ticks, Trans Bodies, and the Ethics of Response-Ability in Art and  Activist Writing.”Environmental Humanities 11 (1): 216-238. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-7349510.