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“Everything I Wanted Not to Be”: The Specter of Africa in the Trans Travel Narrative
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 134–162.
Published: 01 May 2024
... into either the “colonised or proto-settler position” (765). One need look no further for such a distortion than Aizura’s explanation of why trans autobiographies, such as Deirdre McCloskey’s Crossing , are problematic in their likening of transness to immigration through analogy. Juxtaposing...
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The King’s Two Anuses: Trans Feminism and Free Speech
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 118–151.
Published: 01 December 2019
... or social media , has manipulated the lives of trans people and misrepresented them in order to push an ideological debate about an abstraction. It is not obvious to me that “free speech” is any more or less abstract than “transness.” Both of these terms describe an implicit theory of mind...
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Diagram of Freud’s theory of anal sexuality and the trans-formative itinera...
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Figure 1 Diagram of Freud’s theory of anal sexuality and the trans-formative itinerary of the “little one.” Source: Freud, “On Transformations.”
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Who Is the Subject of Gender Self-determination?
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 202–223.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of the nontrans—the putatively cisgender—without a home? To be clear, the analogy of trans to ethnic or religious displacement risks serious inaccuracy. Compare the ontological rendering of “transness” to “Jewishness.” Even if both categories lack a biological or inherited basis, Jewishness has a long...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 1–11.
Published: 01 September 2024
... for queer and trans and sick black women’s erotic agency in the context of hostile institutional formations such as the academic and medical industrial complexes; and to analyze the relevance of empirical black holes for theorizing polymorphous black female sexualities and erotic freedoms. From inside...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2024
... theorizes queer metarelationality as a vernacular ethical practice that is vital to queer life. Reframing queer theory’s debates over the antisocial thesis, the essay argues that Giving an Account of Oneself offers valuable insight for contemporary debates over critique and postcritique, queer and trans...
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Parts of Myself
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 80–95.
Published: 01 December 2024
... about what we, the students, think it’s like for those people who are “transing.” I am new to being trans, but even I know: no one fucking says “transing.” I lose it; I don’t remember what I said, only that it was out of turn. The professor asks me what words she should use instead, since clearly I’m...
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Keyword 3: Mother
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 55–62.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and a first lady who steadfastly refuses to step into the maternal modeling of the role. “Mother,” in this way, names the evangelical revival, the staggering rollback of women’s reproductive rights and healthcare access, both nationally and globally, as well as the federal assaults on trans people from...
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The Black (W)hole of Dysphoria
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 55–78.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and demands. As a trans person of color, I am familiar with the experiences and violences that Willoughby-Herard describes: I have, for example, been ascribed caretaking or diversity labor tasks because of my race and gender, and I have navigated numerous assumptions about my transness, brownness...
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Transgender Performance in Early Modern China
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 130–149.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of transgender representations in early modern China. Li Yu’s works demonstrate that the representation and performance of ambiguous or trans genders was linked to elite male consumption: that is, transgressive gender presentations were a prime form of entertainment, in fiction as in theater. However, his...
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Lynne Huffer’s Are the Lips a Grave? Averting and Accentuating the Genealogical
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 132–144.
Published: 01 December 2016
... how we can distinguish between Huffer’s analytic account of the event and an assessment of trans-formative queer projects as events. What, the essay asks, finally counts most importantly as an event in this context? © 2016 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies...
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Notes on Caitlyn, or Genre Trouble: On the Continued Usefulness of Camp as Queer Method
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., queer theory had the strangest dream. A B-list U.S. celebrity, publicly identified up until this point as male, came out—via a series of high-profile media appearances and her own reality show—as a trans woman in the process of gender transition. Indeed, Caitlyn Jenner would position herself not just...
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Thinking Differently
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 178–193.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of Minnesota Press. Badiou, Alain. Deleuze: The Clamor of Being . Trans. Louise Burchill. Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 1999 . ———. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil . Trans. Peter Hallward. London: Verso, 2001 . ———. Handbook of Inaesthetics . Trans. Alberto Toscano. Stanford...
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Organs Without Bodies
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differences (1989) 1 (1): 147–161.
Published: 01 February 1989
... : Vrin , 1968 . Canguilhem Georges . Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences . Trans. Goldhammer Arthur . Cambridge : MIT P , 1988 . De Lauretis Teresa . Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film and Fiction . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1987...
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Technoasceticism and Authorial Death in Sade, Kafka, Barthes, and Foucault
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differences (1996) 8 (3): 79–127.
Published: 01 November 1996
... Timothy F. and Poirer Suzanne . New York : Columbia UP , 1993 . 83 – 97 . Barthes Roland . Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography . Trans. Howard Richard . New York : Hill & Wang , 1981 . Barthes Roland . “ The Death of the Author .” Image-Music-Text...
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Reinhabiting the Body Politic: Habit and the Roots of the Human
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 73–102.
Published: 01 December 2009
...: Surface of Separation and Contact between Cultural and Vital Normativity.” Adorno, Theodor W. Negative Dialectics . Trans. E. B. Ashton. New York: Continuum, 2000 . Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others . Durham: Duke up, 2006 . Alflatt, Malcolm E...
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“The Right to Be Lonely”
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differences (2002) 13 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 May 2002
... (Reality Street Editions, London, 2000). Addams Family Values 2 . Screenplay by Paul Rudnick. Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld. Paramount, 1993 . Adorno, Theodor. Hegel: Three Studies . Trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, l993 . Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space . Trans...
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The Democratic Insect: Productive Swarms
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 36–53.
Published: 01 December 2009
.... Acharnians . Trans. Jeffrey Henderson. Newburyport: Focus, 2003 . ———. Clouds, Wasps, Peace . Trans. Jeffrey Henderson. Cambridge, ma: Harvard up, 1998 . ———. Wasps . Ed. Douglas M. MacDowell. Oxford: Oxford up, 1971 . Aristotle. Historia Animalium . Trans. A. L. Peck. Cambridge, ma: Harvard...
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Notes toward a Tribute to Jacques Derrida
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 102–113.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., 2005). Austin, J. L. How to Do Things with Words . Cambridge: Harvard up, 1962 . Burgos-Debray, Elisabeth, ed. I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala . Trans. Ann Wright. London: Verso, 1983 . Butler, Judith. “Reply to Robert Gooding-Williams.” Constellations 5.1 ( 1998...
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., Jacques Rancière, and Jacques Lacan, among others. Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses(Notes toward an Investigation).” Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays . Trans. Ben Brewster. New York: Monthly Review, 1971 . 127 -88. ____. “Philosophy and the Spontaneous...
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