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
In this chapter, I interweave theorizations and histories of dust, especially dust in the archives, and echoes of transhumanism and tranimacies, with actual trans stories of fracture and agglomeration in the Five College archive of trans life. Working with some of the most stochastic records of trans life, I explore how dust, as an analytic, illuminates the transhuman ways of belonging that surface in and between trans lives as we craft our stories and make our histories. As an analytic, dust helps us celebrate our lingering traces which, despite their smallness, are power packs of recalcitrance. It helps us honor the ways in which those traces clump and come alive together, resonances billowing through one another. And it helps us follow where those dust puffs move and flow, escaping any and every system of containment that cisnormative structures can muster.
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