@article{Sudenkaarne_2019, title={Queering Vulnerability: A Layered Bioethical Approach}, volume={43}, url={https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/82734}, DOI={10.30676/jfas.v43i3.82734}, abstractNote={<p>Vulnerability is a concept often used in bioethics. However, it is seldom interrogated from a queer point of view. By queer inquiry, I refer to an umbrella understanding of gender and sexuality as diverse. In this article I discuss lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex -related (LGBTQI) approaches to vulnerability. Framing these discussions from queer and LGBTQI bioethical theory, I offer an original approach to vulnerability based on queer bioethics and on a layered understanding of vulnerability. After considering queer bioethics and its (queer) critiques, I conclude that a layered understanding of vulnerability has strong potential for analyzing LGBTQI/queer vulnerabilities in bioethics. For further research, I formulate four layers of queer vulnerabilities to demonstrate some of that potential. I call these the layer of ethical sustainability, the layer of queer agency, the layer of interrogatory intimacy, and the layer of troubled kinship. I insist all layers should be critically evaluated and developed further with intersectional approaches.</p> <p>Keywords: vulnerability; LGBTQI; queer bioethics; queer-feminist anthropology of vulnerability; layers of queer vulnerabilities</p>}, number={3}, journal={Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society}, author={Sudenkaarne, Tiia}, year={2019}, month={Jun.}, pages={73–90} }