The following series of poems, titled “Fractured Femininities/Massacred Masculinities” consists of six “tri-voiced poems” presented as an installation. The author uses the term tri-voiced poems to denote poems crafted from original data, existing literature, and autoethnographic researcher observations. With respect to original data, the poems are based, in part, on data collected during two interview studies. One study involves in-depth interviews with seven heterosexual college-age women regarding their body images and conceptions of femininity and masculinity. The other study consists of in-depth interviews with twenty-eight homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual college-age women regarding their body images and sexual-gender identities. A feminist social constructionist literature review and the author’s experiences and observations have also informed the poetic works. The poems are intended to be engaged with as an installation—connected pieces of a larger work in which themes and language are replicated across poems as windows through the elements in the series.
