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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 431–450.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... Responding to this moment as indicative of antitrans discrimination more broadly, this article undertakes a psychoanalytic interrogation of how this exclusion was structured by the coming together of the trans child and the phantasmatic body. Centering the ambivalent political and psychic work of the body...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (3): 283–297.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of transgender studies, this essay uses the intuitive, ambivalent, and nuanced methodology of Toni Cade Bambara's Salt Eaters to open up space for a trans study that is more capacious, yet still tethered to the experience of living in one's skin as not only content but also form. Ultimately, this essay wonders...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (4): 559–571.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Laura Horak Abstract In this interview, Disclosure director Sam Feder discusses the ambivalence of representation for trans people, their determination to hire as many trans people as possible on set, and how Disclosure evolved into the form it takes today. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 134–135.
Published: 01 May 2014
... fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The monster is an ambivalent figure recurring in trans* discourse. When trans* people are cast as less than human, the monster (and the creature from Mary...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 637–648.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., rejects such humanity-flattening conventions, presenting trans masculinity as a process of growing that involves grief and fear and loss and ambivalence as well as triumph and exultation. As “Make Believe” demonstrates, trans poetics is defined by its ends (the creation of language for modes of self...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 February 2022
... in another theorist's, writer's, or artist's voice alongside. Short chunks of writings by others are incorporated into Wark's autotheoretical storytelling, block quotes that Wark, post-publication, expressed some ambivalence about including in their lengthier form, with Wark wondering whether this has become...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 524–544.
Published: 01 November 2016
... not French, so it's unlikely, him being in Montreal, in this poem you can guess what he means. (88) The instance of assault that closes the poem takes particular advantage of the vulnerability present in the context of this ambivalent transsexual relationship with sexuality and embodiment—never mind...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 407–424.
Published: 01 August 2022
... to minimize, downplay, or eliminate. These examples are responses to the interpellation of medicine that reappropriates language with ambivalence and ambiguity. They take on a normative vocabulary without reproducing its entire logic. Recognizing the dual potential of “care” to recapitulate the social forms...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (1): 64–79.
Published: 01 February 2019
... to transform norms. Expanding this approach into the evaluation of trans* politics touched on above, I home in on the ambivalence of affect: while, on the one hand, affect may offer alternative moods in current politics, on the other hand it may also reinforce existing regimes of power. This is evident...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 105–113.
Published: 01 February 2020
... the memoir before I would be allowed to do that. That is why the book is in some way written against itself. There is a lot of ambivalence and antagonism. The interview with Sheila Heti that closes the text was a way of nodding to that. CP : You definitely seem ambivalent about having had to write...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 311–333.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., the impulse to understand feminism as an incontrovertible political good is a form of purity politics that—apart from being a clichéd hallmark, in our current moment, of a particular cadre of the white Left—refuses to engage the pressing problem of ambivalence. 6 On an individual or highly localized level...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (4): 557–558.
Published: 01 November 2021
...). Transvestites are traitors to hegemonic masculinity, and their femininity is laboriously their own. This femininity is lived from an ambivalence between the oppression that is historically contingent in it and the liberation of the power to express itself as the system has never allowed. Survivors of a system...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 5–19.
Published: 01 February 2020
... the tension between the possibility of shifting, in Susan Stryker's words, “the signs of the flesh that discourse fastens upon to situate the body” through the extreme exercise of a body's gestural capabilities and the temporal nature of a body's always shifting form. Indeed, it is here that the ambivalence...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 20–36.
Published: 01 February 2020
... of thinking requires, I believe, not only an ambivalence regarding the answer to the question of who is disabled but also a refusal to consent to medico-legal norms of emotion and cognition as the basis for securing dignity and authority. That is, a crip/trans response to the Renaissance News writer's...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 451–471.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the capacity to tolerate one's ambivalence and to listen to the other's desire as enigmatic. In-difference requires distance and estrangement, and these qualities are both needed and promoted in analysis in order to counteract our tendency to fall into idealization and the “delusion of clarity of insight...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (2): 164–179.
Published: 01 May 2019
... ( 2015 : 492) analysis of vernacular prison photography, these photographs display the ambivalence of negotiating desires, representing “subjects of value against the carceral state that defines them as otherwise.” These photographs, then, are objects caught somewhere between life and death, as reminder...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (4): 620–634.
Published: 01 November 2019
... relation to this pronoun, I hear it as a form of address with a productive ambivalence that allows me to listen for and practice a form of futurity that is otherwise elusive. With this request in the form of self-revelation, I offer others the opportunity to trip over and interrupt expectation in language...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 208–221.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that the kind of implicit pedagogy that trans porn includes cannot be divorced from profit, and thus this commercial imperative often yields ambivalent results: Angel commodifies his genitalia for profit, but at the same time he puts it to work as a pedagogical tool, instructing his audience on ways of seeing...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (3): 519–521.
Published: 01 August 2015
... Ilya . 2008 . “ Teaching Fashion and Feminist Theory: The Pedagogical Promise of Ambivalence .” Transformations 18 , no. 2 : 67 – 82 . Stallybrass Peter . 1993 . “ Worn Worlds: Clothes, Mourning, and the Life of Things .” Yale Review 81 , no. 2 : 35 – 50 . Tulloch Carol...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 387–406.
Published: 01 August 2022
... what it would mean for bodies to exist differently in the world. It is only by embracing such ambivalence that feminists might look to the theoretical tools of materialism while avoiding the pitfalls of transmisogyny and trans exclusion. Instead of poring over Wittig's writings for evidence that she...
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