Abstract
Presentation entitled Non-binary gender identity, self-presentation and hashtag at the 14th International Conference on Persons, 24-27 May 2017, Rende (Italy). The study presents preliminary results of the research on signs communicated by persons, who defined themselves as #nonbinary, on their Instagram profiles.
A sample set of 200 photographs was analysed, from which 194 were selfies and 6 anti-selfies. The results show that the high number of selfies which were in most cases taken in a private setting are strategy-oriented, aimed at minimising personal distance with the viewer, and the low angles used can be understood as a tool of superiority.
It is for further discussion whether the dissemination of such nonbinary-hashtaged photographs can be understood as a tool of subversive political action against the division into the masculine and the feminine.