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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 19–21.
Published: 01 May 2014
... fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Abjection refers to the vague sense of horror that permeates the boundary between the self and the other. In a broader sense, the term refers...
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TSQ (2024) 11 (2): 287–317.
Published: 01 May 2024
... into both the analysis of the labor process more generally, and the relations of desire, abjection, and identification that enforce the present subordination of trans people. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 femboy political economy labor abjection...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 334–364.
Published: 01 August 2022
... party as innately harmful and therefore requiring elimination; hence the hallmark predation TERF abjection of trans women as rapists of cis women and the Zionist abjection of Palestinians as “savage” and/or “terrorist.” These connections can be obscured by the siloization of social justice movement work...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (1): 9–29.
Published: 01 February 2018
... feminism” enter collective memory as an exclusionary thing distinct from the experiences, labor, and critiques by feminists of color and trans and queer people of the same era? And why, when existing nuanced narratives might invite us to deeper analysis, are stories of exclusion and abjection so magnetic...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 326–329.
Published: 01 May 2016
... trends on gay male sex cruising websites: the “douchebags of Grindr” who routinely express preferences like “no fats, no femmes, no Asians” on their profiles and the resilient GAMS (gay Asian men) who recycle racist epithets into online handles that they adopt without shame. This move from abjection's...
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TSQ (2024) 11 (2): 266–286.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., avoiding the celebration or political affirmation of those feminized and abject positions that have historically inhabited different subjects. The limits imposed by identity categories on the field of social experience are constituent elements of the set of subjectivities that integrate it. 6...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 261–279.
Published: 01 May 2015
... regularly incorporate rather than abject the other, while simultaneously engaging in self-abjection. At the same time, the elements of humor and grossness found in this corpus help create an absurd, antiheroic tone, ensuring that we are not moved to praise the performers for bold sacrifices, which might...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 451–471.
Published: 01 November 2017
... York : New York University Press . Cavanagh Sheila . 2010 . Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . Covino Deborah Caslav . 2004 . Amending the Abject Body: Aesthetic Makeovers in Medicine and Culture...
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TSQ (2024) 11 (2): 186–213.
Published: 01 May 2024
... questions in trans Marxism: What is the value of the etiological question for trans politics, and how should it be approached? How does abjection shape the interaction of gender and value to determine differential disvaluations of trans labor? How can an immanent critique of gender and sexual identity forms...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (1): 112–127.
Published: 01 February 2017
.... It requires that we start from a different point: treating them as agents navigating complex identities. Ochoa's attentiveness to the practices of transformistas “selling themselves” on the Avenida illuminates both their abject social position and their defiance and self-actualization. Contrary...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 686–690.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., their social marginality and abjection mirror our own. The relation to the queer past is suffused not only by feelings of regret, despair, and loss but also by the shame of identification. —Heather Love, Feeling Backward The marginality and abjection of the queer subjects in Albert Nobbs mirrors our...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 341–344.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the so-called abnormal transgender body. Heteronormativity has long divided bodies into the normal, that is, proper human, and the other, commonly regarded as less than human, even monstrous. Among such abjected bodies we find those of women, people with disabilities, people of color, people of different...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (2): 260–268.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., abject, degraded, and excessive politicized Latinx body and dissolve the boundaries between the animal and the human by exploring what type of desire, enjoyment, pleasure, hope, and future we can find through the nonhuman, subhuman, or transhuman. In an interview, I asked Ibarra how exploring...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 326–357.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Journal of Psycho-Analysis 27 : 99 – 110 . Kristeva Julia . 1982 . Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection . New York : Columbia University Press . Kristeva Julia . 2016 . “ Transformations of Parentality ,” translated by Kenny Edward . Paper presented at the symposium...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (4): 645–649.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and abject object that profoundly alters my relationship to the collection and its creator, partially permeating the boundaries between us. While this fragment cannot close the vast distance between an archival object and the life it represents ( Arondekar 2009 ; Rawson 2014 ), it does cause me to feel...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (2): 226–242.
Published: 01 May 2017
... feminine regardless of their identifications; it also renders abjection of trans masculine people as impossible. A Black trans-of-color critique shows that we need theories not only for thinking about how trans women of color navigate but also for racialized transmisandry, to explain the ways in which...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 268–274.
Published: 01 May 2018
... labor and a frenzy of consumption bordering on the abject. These cuts are designed to pointedly elide the surgeon's knife in the production of a decidedly beefcake transmasculine form. The artist's decision to take (illegal) steroids for the final eight weeks of the project enacts a modulation...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 328–349.
Published: 01 November 2023
... is that in the West, gender and race are and must be understood as, to quote C. Riley Snorton ( 2017 : 8), “inextricably linked yet irreconcilable and irreducible projects.” The construction of Western genders relies on the simultaneous abjection of non-Western genders (in this roundtable, we're talking primarily...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 518–533.
Published: 01 November 2017
... recognition but brought to ground in the abjection of homo sacer . This is one way of defining the lived experience that queer clinicians bring to our work with LGBTIQ people. This is not to argue that we all have the same lived experience, either as individuals or as groups. There is a very particular...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (1): 59–70.
Published: 01 February 2023
... is “capacitated, even driven, not only by the abjection of bodies unable to meet these proprietary racial and gendered mandates of bodily comportment, but also by the concomitant marking of those abjected bodies as debilitated. The debilitating and abjecting are co-substancing processes.” Neoliberal subject...
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