Perry Zurn is Visiting Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University, author of
Becoming a Trans Problem
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Published:December 2024
Becoming a trans problem, even in the pursuit of important policy changes, always already involves taking a turn toward poetics. Here, the linguistic and the material come together not merely to enunciate, like so many protest placards, what it is that we want, but also, and perhaps more fundamentally, to illustrate—physically and aesthetically—how it is that we want to be together. I illustrate this poetic process of becoming a trans problem with a Shit-In conducted by the Gender Liberation UMass group in 2016.
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