The Technical Capacities of the Body: Assembling Race, Technology, and Transgender

This essay travels with the testosterone molecule to pursue a theory of racialized and trans embodiment as technical capacities of all bodies, not only of the trans-of-color subject subordinated to racially normative and gender-normative white and cisgender bodies (though the hormone molecule is implicated in those relations). It focuses on technology to think race and transgender together, from a common conceptual ground, rather than as separate strands of thought recombined through an intersectional or cyborg hybridity framework.