... In “Transgender Studies: Queer Theory's Evil Twin,” the author argues that the field of transgender studies is often marginalized within the broader framework of queer theory, despite the fact that transgender issues have been an important part of queer activism and scholarship for decades. Like...

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... This chapter previews the book’s main arguments, situating them in relation to transgender and queer studies as well as critical cultural studies of law. It also provides a historical overview of cross-dressing laws in the United States, documenting their frequent passage in mid-nineteenth...

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..., a genre for this theory and practice of gender. Frankenstein’s monster monstrous trans embodiment embodied knowledge natural In “Transgender Studies: Queer Theory's Evil Twin,” the author argues that the field of transgender studies is often marginalized within the broader framework...

... but a key move to starting a new one—transgender studies. One might wonder, however, about what other possibilities have been left behind. For instance, what transgender studies might it have looked like if this text had been as central to a trans literature as to a trans scholarship? subaltern...

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... Kai M. Green stages a conversation between black lesbian feminism and transgender studies. Through a series of close readings of editorials by Alycee Lane that appeared in Black Lace , a black lesbian erotic magazine, he demonstrates how black lesbian as a Trans* modifier of feminism indexes...

... This essay discusses Mama & Me , a mixed-media artwork by an ftm-identified Hong Kong immigrant, Bobby Cheung, as a trans of color critique of the normativizing discourses of U.S.-based transgender politics. Drawing on the history of Asian immigration and diaspora studies, this essay...

... In “Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question,” the author works through the consequences for feminism of positing trans embodiment as pointing toward its own distinctive kind of politics, knowledge, and politics of knowledge. Second wave feminism that took the “natural” sexed body...

... posthumanism This essay discusses Mama & Me , a mixed-media artwork by an ftm-identified Hong Kong immigrant, Bobby Cheung, as a trans of color critique of the normativizing discourses of U.S.-based transgender politics. Drawing on the history of Asian immigration and diaspora studies, this essay...

... the limits of “transgender” to suggest an alternative in transcender —that is, an engagement with the submerged Caribbean epistemology of syncretic religions. Offering a close reading of “Transcender,” Tinsley explores how and why Gerestant turns to Vodou not merely as a religious practice but also...

... The author's 1994 essay, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix,” is a founding text of trans studies. It is addressed to Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist of Mary Shelley’s novel, and it is structured around the unnaturalness of the trans body (like...

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... as a range of decolonial queer, Black and trans/feminist timely studies, I ask how time matters differently in the postcolony. khwajasara hijra distemporality nonconformity This chapter follows khwaja sira-trans engagements with the transnational Islamic missionary Tablighi Jamaʿat, which...

...Trans Theory as Gender Theory In “The Time Has Come to Think about Gayle Rubin,” the author reflects on the contributions of Rubin's work to the fields of queer and feminist studies. The author argues that Rubin's analysis of sexuality and gender in the context of kinship systems provides...

..., a confessional refusal, a desire for facelessness? And how might someone’s Blackness muddy the already muddy waters of gender alignment, that uneven epidermis indexical of an anoriginal lawlessness lacerative of the “cis” of cisgender, intimate with the “trans” of transgender? Black feminism Foucault...