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Biopolitics
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 38–42.
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 term biopolitics dates to the early twentieth century ( Lemke 2011 ), but it is only in Michel Foucault's work from the 1970s forward that the concept...
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Glands, Eugenics, and Rejuvenation in Man into Woman : A Biopolitical Genealogy of Transsexuality
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 589–605.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... Exploring a disturbing genealogy of transgender that is implicated in eugenics, rather than recovering transgender figures in history, broadens understandings of what medical transition meant in the recent past. More importantly, it centers for transgender history the intertwined biopolitical genealogies...
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Scarred Flesh and the X of Law
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 410–425.
Published: 01 November 2023
... by the symbology of the X. Rather than providing a simple visual cue for death and closure, the X is vitalized, through a reading of Bey and Scarface together, as the (un)graphing of law that both inscribes and defaces the biopolitical state, which predicates itself on legislating the difference between genders...
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Coconstructing (Trans-)Capitalist Realism: Trans Activisms Collude in the Political Economy Structuring Anti-Trans Laws
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TSQ (2024) 11 (2): 214–238.
Published: 01 May 2024
... with a biopolitical analysis suggesting that the state is denying the means of life to a marginalized group or that right-wing pundits are manufacturing a transgender crisis to expand state power via a state of exception. However, trans-affirming activists overlook political economy in their biopolitical analysis...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 189–194.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., or whether, biopolitical techniques for hierarchizing differences within our species' populations might translate across species boundaries, and of how racialization, dehumanization, animalization, and (trans)gendering might relate to one another. If transgendering involves processes through which...
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“I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter”
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TSQ (2019) 6 (4): 667–675.
Published: 01 November 2019
... potentiality the “biopolitics of identification,” it traces spectral appearances of trans as a contrivance for violence through lived and imagined scenes of surveillance and security. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 meme media big data gender identity In 2014, an avid participant...
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The Technical Capacities of the Body: Assembling Race, Technology, and Transgender
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 402–418.
Published: 01 August 2014
... attempt to secure and regulate the bodily mobilities that synthetic hormones enable is a case study in transgender studies' importance to questions that implicate all bodies in their biopolitical investment by the state. Beauchamp asks us to consider, in addition to synthetic hormone therapy for trans...
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General Editors' Introduction
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TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 161–163.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., slaves, and laborers as a way to move them closer to livestock in the hierarchies of life, and further from hereditary kingship—but totally in keeping with a modern biopolitical project that attends to the specific biological capacities of each and every body through techniques for managing and directing...
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Identity
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 103–106.
Published: 01 May 2014
... it is the case that all humans have lifeworlds too complex to be accounted for by the restrictive ontologies of identity and its implication in biopolitical systems of power. Jettisoning “identity” may, indeed, be necessary in order to open up the full consequences of its role in shaping modern selves, a task...
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Scenes of Self-Conduct: Transnational Subjectivities from Tehran to Laplanche
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 654–661.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Dina Al-Kassim Abstract Casting off from the deployment of sexuality under modern biopolitics, the emergent subjectivities knitted between same-sex players and transexuals in Iran reveal networks of affiliation and fantasy best disclosed by psychoanalytic listening. Jean Laplanche's reworking...
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On “Deadnaming” the “Vanishing Indian”: A Trans* Indigene's Poltergeist's Critique of Transnormativity and Its Settler Coloniality
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TSQ (2024) 11 (1): 80–96.
Published: 01 February 2024
... (for “citizenship” within its biopolitical sphere). [Settler colonialism] can turn a person into a murderer in a matter of seconds; it is an epistemic rupturing of our attachments to life, to each other, and to ourselves. —Billy-Ray Belcourt, “A Poltergeist Manifesto” The noun deadname and its verb...
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Contours of a Historical Materialist Theory of Transsexuality: Claiming a Hopeful Origin Story as a Personal and Political Necessity
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TSQ (2024) 11 (2): 239–265.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of the possibility of gender mobility and ambiguity within the Western biopolitical generative dispositive in its functional relation to the capitalist mode of production. The containment works through the displacement of a structural conflict of social reproduction specific to the Western modern/colonial gender...
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White Supremacist Submission
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 426–448.
Published: 01 November 2023
... under the influence of nonwhite men, even as they underscore the biopolitical unidirectionality of plasticity, tracing patterns in which Black, brown, and Indigenous men exert influence on whites while remaining fundamentally incapable of transformation. This history of racialized access to malleability...
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Asexual Inverts and Sexual Perverts: Locating the Sarimbavy of Madagascar within Fin-de-Siècle Sexological Theories
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 368–386.
Published: 01 August 2014
... metropole based upon these doctor- sarimbavy interactions. This article reveals how sarimbavy were situated within the biopolitics of colonial penal, labor, and medical infrastructures in Madagascar. Additionally, by following the bibliographic trail of the sarimbavy figure in documents published in England...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 195–208.
Published: 01 May 2015
... used to name transgenders—the introduction posits how a trans heuristic allows us to better understand the limits of “the human” as a biopolitical tool for privileging a few so as to de-, in-, nonhumanize the many. Trans exposes what is at stake in these prefixial maneuvers, what is materialized...
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Tranimacies: An Interview with Mel Y. Chen
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 317–323.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Abstract TSQ editorial board member Eva Hayward interviews Mel Y. Chen to discuss the relevance for the field of transgender studies of Chen's Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect and other work. The interview covers such topics as feminist science and technology studies...
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“I've Never Seen You When You Weren't Pregnant”: Trans Reproductivity against AIDS
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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 674–682.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in That Fertile Feeling , but the author shows how precisely this submerged status of the crisis as a signifier in the video allows Davis to visualize a broad biopolitical field and situate the epidemic within that field to address the interrelated, mutually supporting injustices perpetuated at its peak in Los...
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The Value of Thinking Intersex Otherwise
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TSQ (2019) 6 (1): 132–136.
Published: 01 February 2019
... in relation to biopolitics and geopolitics as well as recognize the limitations of neoliberal models of subjectivity and political reform for reimagining intersex. Rubin's fourth chapter, “Provincializing Intersex: Transnational Intersex Activism, Human Rights, and Body Politics,” extends and deepens...
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Multiraciality, Haunting, and “People Like Us”
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 440–444.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Karma R. Chávez The Biopolitics of Mixing: Thai Multiracialities and Haunted Ascendancies Haritaworn Jinthana Farnham, UK : Ashgate , 2012 . x + 189 pp . Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Academic and popular interest in multiracial or mixed-race identities has...
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Trans of Color Critique before Transsexuality
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 606–620.
Published: 01 November 2018
... . Lawrence Susan . 2016 . Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Preciado Paul B. 2013 . Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era . Translated by Benderson Bruce . New York : Feminist...
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