Stephen Kerry

Biography

Dr Stephen Kerry conducts research into the health and wellbeing of those who live on the gender margins of society, such as intersex and transgender people. Dr Kerry’s areas of research interest are gender, sexuality, health, religion, and popular culture. Xie* is also a trained counsellor and volunteers with local queer organisations to bring about social change. In 2015, Dr Kerry was a Keynote Speaker at the Variant Sex and Gender, Religion and Wellbeing conference in the UK and, in 2016, Dr Kerry was invited by the NT’s Department of Corrections to be part of a working group which developed a policy for transgender and intersex prisoners. Hir most recent research project has focused on the specific issues facing transgender people in the NT as well as transgender Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people, also known as sistergirls and brotherboys. Xie is currently studying Mandarin and lives with a cat companion. *Dr Kerry identifies as genderqueer and uses gender-neutral pronouns.

Research Interest

Sex and gender, Feminism and men’s studies, Queer theory, Sexual orientation.