... TRANSGENDER RAGE Susan Stryker INTRODUCTORY NOTES Thefollowing work is a textual adaptation of a performance piece originally presented at “Rage Across the Disciplines,” an arts, humanities, and social sciences conference held June 10-12, 1993, at California State University, San Marcos...

...Karen Barad Drawing on a disparate set of naturalcultural phenomena from regenerative biology, quantum field theory, and queer and trans theories that include lightning, primordial ooze, frogs, bioelectricity, monstrosity, trans rage, virtual particles, and errant pathways, this article is about...

... knowledge and affect. Reading Stryker’s mobilization of rage in a wider history of trans women and trans women of color’s critiques of queer movements, we argue for the continued promise of Stryker’s critique in producing knowledge around the queerness of gender directly out of the material, embodied...

...Joseph Plaster In the late 1950s and 1960s, hustlers and street queens staged countless food riots, sit‐ins, and pickets in downtown “vice” districts across the United States. One cannot appreciate the indignation and rage that sparked these rebellions without understanding the moral values...

...- inch blades, and even a truck to kill a Native American man, two African American men, and two white men trying to block their genocidal rage (Levin 2017). These quick, execution- style slayings contained an element of surprise, so the victims, including mili- tary...

... Straub Kristina , 280 – 304 . New York : Routledge . Stryker Susan . 1994 . “ My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage .” GLQ 1 , no. 3 : 237 – 54 . Stryker Susan . 2004 . “ Transgender Studies: Queer Theory’s Evil...

... of the “father” of this brotherhood, the commander Bruno Forestier. In Billy Budd, it is the prelapsarian innocence and goodness of the young sailor that stirs up Claggart’s elementally evil rage and destructivity. In Beau Travail a distanced retrospective voiceover narration records...

... political imaginaries. If, according to Nash, letting go of defensiveness opens up new possibilities, then following Jordan as she goes on epistemological attack may open up other currently unthinkable ways of being, knowing, and feeling. For example, in her essay “Killing Rage: Militant Resistance...

...), the closeted, acerbic lawyer Roy Cohn rages at his naive protégé Joe Pitt that politics is, in his words, “gastric juices churning, this is enzymes and acids, this is intestinal is what this is, bowel movement and blood-­red meat — this stinks, this is politics, Joe, the game of being alive.”1 Roy’s...

... interruptions of public forums by lesbian and gay activists in favor of drawing public attention and outrage to the failure of government funding of AIDS research and outreach. The increasing theatricalization of political rage in response to the killing inatten- tion of public policy-makers...

... of righteousness that easily turns to rage.38 We would do well to explore the degree to which a thrill of collec- tive rage and scapegoating underpins particular sex panics. Who panics in a sex panic? As I showed above, regulatory institutions mobi- lize against sexual folk...

... ): 115 –46. Halberstam , Judith . “Imagined Violence/Queer Violence: Representation, Rage, and Resistance.” Social Text 37 ( 1993 ): 187 –201. Herman , Judith Lewis . Trauma and Recovery . New York: Basic, 1992 . Houppert , Karen . Rev. of Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations...

.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evening falls in Independence Park. Around the fires the demons dance. They drink the potion of love until oblivion. Only a short drive from the celebrating scum The war goes on, the war that seals our fate.24 The poem has an unmistakable tone of religious rage, condemning...

... to offer a definitive explanation for the sisters’ rage, a strategy that is particularly effective for representing a crime whose motives are opaque.9 Denis’s psychoanalytically informed examination of the sisters’ lives from childhood through incarceration situates their crime within the history...

... did die, a telos that undoes the directional prejudice behind the term sexile . Instead, his ashes would be sprinkled at the sea in his hometown of Manatí, a final return to his shore of life. His exorbitant dust still rages on the page, an urgent reminder that finitude comes for us all...

... of social rela- tion structured . . . by collective, entangled, and historically informed practices of sharing out, just distribution, sustainability, and being together in difference (9). Readers indeed may find collectivity in the racial, feminist, and queer grief and rage that surge through Chambers...

... casually revoked. Revoked, an exalted existence: I wait for actualization, to be that zebra, existence justified: but I am just a human child. (Blindly raging, an adult male kills a cub that, approaching too closely, has unwittingly...

... future for queer Xicanas. The relationship among spirituality, indigeneity, and futurity, the central theme of the book, becomes a political project that incorporates decolonial activism (“root work”), prison abolitionism, and queer rage. GLQ readers will find Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas most...

... off my clitoris, forcibly confronting him with the horror he had imposed on my life. But in acknowledging the desire to put my pain to some use, not to utterly waste my life, I turned a crucial corner, finding a way to direct my rage productively out into the world rather than destructively...

.... More important, Shadow’s story of estrogen poisoning runs counter to the hegemonic cultural belief that testosterone is likely to result in male rage. His rage was, by his account, a result of an incongruity between his body image and his biology. By injecting testosterone he found a “better fit...