...Figure 1. Violated Body (2014). Piezography on cotton, 40 × 26.5 cm. ...

... on trans sexuality from within the community include Christopher Lee, Hans Scheirl, Cary Cronenwett, Tobaron Waxman, Morty Diamond, T-wood team, and Tobi Hill-Meyer. We have hit the cotton ceiling . The new wave of queer pornography, creating a professional and accessible DVD and online alt.porn world...

... that the agricultural bounty of the Imperial Valley has been used as a tool of propaganda. In 1915, D. W. Griffith used the cotton fields of Calexico, California, to stand in for the plantations of the Reconstruction-era South depicted in his historic and controversial film The Birth of a Nation (1915). The political...

... and activism. A glance through the inaugural issue of TSQ ( Currah and Stryker 2014 ) shows a sustained and multifaceted concern with disability: Elisa A. G. Arfini ( 2014 ) on “Transability,” micha cárdenas ( 2014 ) on “Sick,” Trystan T. Cotton ( 2014 ) on “Surgery,” Justus Eisfeld ( 2014...

... made no sense in our cultural context and therefore could not be used to support our agenda (for example, the “cotton ceiling” argument, or Sheila Jeffrey's arguments against medicalization, which similarly don't make any sense because our medical system is completely different). We found ourselves...

... of Transgender Travel Narratives .” In Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition , ed. Cotton Trystan T. , 139 – 56 . New York : Routledge . Beauchamp Toby . 2009 . “ Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility: Transgender Bodies and US State Surveillance after...

...? Figure 2. Nicki Green, Bedikah Quilt Topper , 2017. Blood and injectable estrogen on cotton muslin, 11 × 11 in. NG : I am thinking about repetition, and how the ongoing process of collecting cloth bandages creates a rhythm and an accumulation of change. The piecing together of quilt...

.... , Cotton Trystan , LaGata Carsten Balzar/Carla , Ochoa Marcia , and Vidal-Ortiz Salvador , eds. 2014 . “ Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary .” Special issue, TSQ 1 , no. 3 . Chiang Howard . 2020 . Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific . New York : Columbia...

...)politics of Gender Trans-ing , ed. Cotton Trystan , 139 – 56 . New York : Routledge . Anzaldúa Gloria . 1987 . Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza . San Francisco : Spinsters/Aunt Lute . Derrida Jacques . 1980 . “ La loi du genre ” (“The Law of Genre”). Translated...

... scholarship with the work of trans scholars, while unfortunately largely avoiding the past. References Aizura Aren Z. , Cotton Trystan , LaGata Carsten Balzar/Carla , Ochoa Marcia , and Vidal-Ortiz Salvador , eds. 2014 . “ Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary .” Special...

... Americana; dressed up in the clothing styles of inaugural balls, the Tony Awards, thrift shops, and Spanish telenovelas ; and imitated the likes of Little Edie, Queen Amidala, Judge Judy, Klaus Nomi, and Imelda Marcos. They have made gowns from curtains, cotton candy, Saran Wrap, and other unusual...

... Lakes. References Aizura Aren Z. 2018 . Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Aizura Aren Z. , Cotton Trystan , Balzer Carsten / LaGata Carla , Ochoa Marcia , and Vidal-Oritz Salvador...

... . “ Lesbians at Ground Zero. Findings .” Get the L Out UK , March 3 . https://www.gettheloutuk.com/blog/category/research/lesbians-at-ground-zero.html . Yardley Miranda . 2018 . “ Girl Dick, the Cotton Ceiling, and the Cultural War on Lesbians and Women .” Medium , December 9 . https...

...,” and YouTube itself offers extensive guidelines for just that. In sum, YouTube as a platform and the self-presentation of individual vloggers have undergone an increasing commercialization. References Cotton Trystan T. 2012 . Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men...

... . Aizura Aren Z. , Cotton Trystan , Carsten Balzer/Carla LaGata , Ochoa Marcia , and Vidal-Ortiz Salvador , eds. 2014a . “ Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary .” Special issue, TSQ 1 , no. 3 . Aizura Aren Z. , Cotton Trystan , Carsten Balzer/Carla LaGata...

... of Transition , edited by Cotton Trystan T. , 139 – 56 . New York : Routledge . Alexander M. Jacqui . 2005 . Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Allen Jafari S. 2012 . “ Black/Queer...

... is bold and somewhat menacing; the words BLACKWINTERWELLS OMEN float in capital letters, contrasted against a pale blue sky spattered with white cotton candy clouds floating above a green grassy hill. As the glitching voice joins the image—“Me-me-me-me-me-me/I need it-what'd/ you-what'd you-/Me-me-I-back...

... runners or other criminals. Beginning with such iconic films as Cotton Comes to Harlem (dir. Ossie Davis, 1970), Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song (dir. Melvin Van Peebles, 1971), Shaft (dir. Gordon Parks, 1971), and Superfly (Gordon Parks Jr., 1972), Blaxploitation-era films were known...