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... as a legitimate mode of existence and source of existence that Linda is trying to support, at least in part. Of course, Tjipel could become many other things in 2011—and with it Linda and Yilngi. She could become transgender, or butch, because these transfigurations are also possible within the contemporary...

... into gender identity, the paper considers what it would look like to conceptualize transgender subjectivity as an expression of the logic of sexual difference, ultimately suggesting there may be a way of reading transgenderism as a ``feminine'' phenomenon. The paper responds to two texts also invested...

... 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...

...Marissa Brostoff This article argues that Caitlyn Jenner’s failed performance as transgender spokeswoman can be best understood through the queer reading practice of camp. Camp’s subversive potential to denaturalize gender through the scene of its failed performance has often been celebrated within...

... .” 26 . 3 : 43 – 53 . Ophir Adi . “ A Barely Visible Protagonist .” 26 . 2 : 106 – 20 . Ophir Adi . “ On Linking Machinery and Show .” 26 . 3 : 54 – 80 . Povinelli Elizabeth A. “ Transgender Creeks and the Three Figures of Power in Late Liberalism .” 26 . 1 : 168 – 87...

... as later dynasties in Chinese history and the postsocialist era. The last two essays, by Sarah E. Kile and Chengzhou He, center on transgender per- formance and representation in relation to the market and commercial economy around...

... Foucault, Gayle Rubin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Michael Warner, but it also underwrites the critical analyses and political activisms of the field’s most important interlocutors, including feminist theory, women of color feminism, and transgender studies. Whether as political or analytic description...

... dysphoria language psychoanalysis subjectivity transgender studies To become whole, Stallworth’s narration reminds us, does not mean to isolate the feelings of misrecognition in the experiences of one individual subject or identity category. Rather, as Stallworth models by drawing attention...

... of Justice refused to hear appeals against a temporary order ending enforcement of the aca’s nondiscrimination protection for transgender individuals. When the Department of Justice further reversed protections for trans individuals, most notably removing the injunction against North Carolina’s public...

... ( 2010 ): 597 – 613 . ———. “ What’s the Difference? Bringing Particularity to Queer Studies of Transgender .” Journal of Gender Studies 15.1 ( 2006 ): 49 – 66 . Huang Ginger . “ Crossing Genders, Crossing Genres .” World of Chinese 15 July 2012 . http...

... colonialism transgender politics This essay is motivated by a desire to bring Judith Butler’s writing on ethics, politics, and religion more directly to bear on the politicization of trans people. My broadest contention is that Butler’s reading of the fractious relationship between ethical...

... of theory and of bodies, are key to the construction of trans knowledges. From there, the essay reads (or perhaps misreads) Giving an Account alongside Susan Stryker’s foundational essay “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage,” arguing that both Butler...

... in the Princeton Society of Fellows from 2005 to 2008. Her research interests are phenomenology, gender, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and twentieth-century continental philosophy, and her book Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality on embodiment and transgender subjectivity is forthcoming...

..., and she commits politically to “the transgender fight for equality” (2), taking the position opposite Slavoj Žižek’s. Yet in other respects, Gherovici’s work is somewhat clueless: the protagonist of the introductory chapter turns out to be Rachel Dolezal; and the book refers constantly to “transgenderism...

.... The ballroom scene is a cultural formation comprised of (mostly) urban black and brown lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ( lgbtq ) people who participate in competitions, called “balls,” in teams, called “houses,” across a number of categories—including performance, fashion, runway, realness...

... the “transgender-as-immigrant” analogy with that of the “gay is the new Black” analogy, Aizura cites Jared Sexton’s article “People-ofColor-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery” to explain how analogizing civil rights to gay rights deploys a “metaphoric transfer that dismisses the legitimacy of black...

.... 821 – 23 . ———. “ Ever After: History, Negativity, and the Social .” South Atlantic Quarterly 106.3 ( Summer 2007 ): 469 – 76 . ———. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham : Duke UP , 2004 . Halberstam Judith . In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies...

...: Li Yugang and Cross- Dressing Performance.” 24.2: 150–71. Kile, Sarah E. “Transgender Performance in Early Modern China.” 24.2: 130–49. Kordela, Kiarina A. “Biopolitics: From Tribes to Commodity Fetishism...

... is that it occurs at a time when gender, in its display of differences, has become ever more pervasive and plural now that it is powerfully inflected by categories such as transgender and genderqueer . In the context of this convergence, let me pose two additional questions: If, as the proponents of surface...

.... Stryker, Susan. “Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question.” Third Wave Feminism. Ed. Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford. 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2007. 59–70. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble . London...