...Shunyuan Zhang Abstract This article examines transgender practices in Southwest China through the analytic lens of assemblage. Through ethnographically contextualizing transgender sex workers' daily navigation of the rapidly shifting urban space in Kunming, this article reconceptualizes...

... to transnational debates on gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and nationality, among others, as part of a contingent conglomeration of elements, using Susan Stryker, Paisley Currah, and Lisa Jean Moore's terms, an assemblage constitutes one of the possibilities to rearrange, reassemble the ways we...

... the process of a translatory videopoem collaboration between Denise Leto and Petra Kuppers. One difference is not the same as another, but between experimental poetics, assemblage, and occupied land, we sound in the waters. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 embodied poetry videopoem...

... and highlights the important role of religion in gender and black Atlantic studies. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 trans* Santería assemblage spirit possession The waters of that Atlantic Ocean are in constant flux. This continuous motion means one particle of water could...

... practice of alliance without actually doing intersectional research or analyses. More interesting to me is the question of what kinds of assemblages appear before and beyond intersectionality that might refuse to isolate trans and disability as separate and distinct conceptual entities. What kinds...

... its natural or God-given status. Trans studies of religion is well positioned to move outside or beyond the gender-abolitionst framework of cisgender feminist studies of religion when it imagines not that gender is something that will someday be overcome, but that gender is a form of assemblage within...

... transdisciplinarity) are the exposed and trans parent conditions of possibility, “the sensuous refrains through which becomings and assemblages happen” in the inextricable intertwining of significant otherness in First and Second Life. As such, the TRANimalS assemblage that is Katie King, Katie Fenstalker (avatar...

..., critical race studies, animal studies, disability studies, and environmental studies. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 animacy racial biopolitics transgender assemblage TSQ:   Your book Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect has importantly connected...

... in the interstices of transgender studies and animal studies included here in “Tranimalities.” As Victoria Pitts-Taylor and Talia Schaffer ( 2008 : 9) pointed out, we conceptualized trans- in WSQ “as both assemblage and disassemblage, as folded into structures of power and … as a movement of becoming...

... assemblages. For the purposes of this reflective piece, Nikki Sullivan ( 2014 : 188) offers a useful definition of somatechnics as investigating how the body is “continuously engendered in relation to others and to a world.” Iris van der Tuin and Holly Randell-Moon ( 2019 ) explored this engendering further...

... occurring binary sex difference (Dreger 2000 ; Fausto-Sterling 2020 ; Fine 2017 ) is central to and integrated within a Eurocentric, white supremacist, colonial, and heteropatriarchal assemblage of power (Collins 2013 ; Higginbotham 1992 ; Puar 2007 ; Weheliye 2014 ; Wynter 2003 ). We cannot...

... materials such as scrap metal, aluminum sheeting, crushed car parts, worn leather, zippers, buckles, and fluorescent bulbs in large-scale sculptural works that often appeared as assemblages of seemingly incompatible or chaotic parts, thereby invoking the human body without ever directly representing...

... of what she called a theft of time . Soon after, I found myself snotty and crying as my partner looked to comfort my grief. I can only explain this feeling as a kind of psychedelic generational assemblage of trauma; scenes from my own life blended with things I have known only through digital mediation...

... ways, through embodied theorizing, trans assemblages, trans aesthetics, subjugated knowledges, and policy debate. In “Living in the Skin of a Theory: Incommensurability in Toni Cade Bambara's Salt Eaters : Toward the ‘Studies’ of Trans Studies,” Nat Baldino asks that we become architects...

... thought. By bringing together ethics of care, trans embodiment, and assemblage thinking, Trans Care invites scholars in trans studies and beyond to deeply consider the modes of relationality and interdependency that operate to both constrain and sustain trans life. In short, there is a lot going...

... poietic assemblage, producing effects and affects “through the bodily practice and technological principle of disjunction” (6). Articulating this affinity anew, Steinbock is following a trajectory in transgender studies that seeks to complicate questions of visibility and representation, marked...

... that transsexuals historically have been asked to perform: proclaim your desire, submit to diagnostic authority, take this pill, cut here, sign there, and voilà: you are a person of a different sex. That formula has been changing rapidly over the past quarter century, and the status of surgery within the assemblage...

... “assemblages” of oppression that unevenly distribute resilience versus harm, life versus death, along axes of (cis)gender, race, class, sexuality, and colonialism. 2 Trans scholars C. Riley Snorton and Jin Haritaworn draw on Mbembe's theory of necropolitics, Lisa Duggan's ( 2003 ) analysis of (white, middle...

... are assemblages of unknowns, or indeterminates, or faults, or dissemblances, or irreducible noncommunicabilities.” Xs mark places in discourse where difference gathers to a saturation point and diffuses. In The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender , Bey extends Chandler's thinking of the X...

..., and then to create connections in other conceptual topographies at different levels of discursivity. 5 This varied from the later Deleuzoguattarian formulation of assemblages ( agencements ) that operate as an example of an infinite multitude of singularities that can function transversally, bringing intensities...