Los Angeles at Night

“Los Angeles at Night” pulls together an autofictional style of narrative with an autotheoretical approach that allows concepts to emerge organically out of situation and story. Here, the blade is taken back from the surgeon and becomes instead the tool for practicing presence in the flesh as a kind of art, or ritual. What S/M and trans-ness might have in common is that the body can neither be ignored nor simply given. Besides its beauty as a piece of S/M writing, “Los Angeles at Night” also asks what a trans erotics would be like if made not only about trans people but by trans people and for trans people.