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 trans studies today, talk of trans worlds and trans world-building is common. But it is important to ask: Who and what belong in those worlds? What presumptions of worldedness (and unworlded being) inform them? I am left wondering: do stones share in trans worlds? Practically, how might stones inhabit and habituate those worlds? And, perhaps more fundamentally, how might stones be a material analytic for the trans world-building ventures of activism and poetic resistance? Here, I have pebbled together a series of vignettes that explore precisely these questions, locating stone in the most personal—and most political—moments of trans life, which is also to say of trans resistance.
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