...Cameron Awkward-Rich Abstract This essay turns to two familiar figures in the transgender archive—Lou Sullivan and Jack Bee Garland—to think about the potentials of trans/crip conjunctions. The author offers a recuperative reading of Sullivan's biography of Garland, From Female to Male: The Life...

..., and for understanding how bodily forms and processes are simultaneously shaped by but exceed cultural expectations. In “‘She of the Pants and No Voice’: Jack Bee Garland's Disability Drag,” Cameron Awkward-Rich offers a recuperative reading of the life of Jack Bee Garland, the subject of influential trans community...

... a brotherly trans affect from Lou to the reader, and we are all the better for it. By writing this feeling into the text, the text itself replicates Sullivan's ( 1990 ) own biography of Jack Bee Garland. Readers interested in male-loving trans men will undoubtedly want to read Sullivan's biography of Garland...

... the figure of Lou Sullivan, a trans gay man who, like Dorsey, was an activist in San Francisco drawn to the archive. Sullivan's own historiographic project on nineteenth-century bon vivant Jack Bee Garland reclaimed Garland for trans history, rejecting former interpretations that denied his identity...