... critical insight into Hirschfeld and his role in the development of a homosexual rights movement in Germany. Hirschfeld is undoubtedly an important historical figure for queer and trans studies. According to Susan Stryker, he “was a pivotal figure in the political history of sexuality and gender...

... in order to at least mitigate some of these difficulties. transgender biopower normalizing power critical epidemiology population HIV prevention This article is a critical engagement with research aimed precisely at “making transgender count” in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Recognizing...

... of binary male/female sex and binary masculine/feminine gender categories while also exceptionalizing transgender identities. Students and teachers who challenge such practices engage in critical literacy readings of school spaces and of the mundane ways binary gender and sex are read onto bodies. Critical...

... critical trans studies in and beyond Europe exposes the enduring, only somewhat covert history of epistemologies specific to European concepts of temporality, space, and difference, and even more so to continental philosophy and scientism that emerged as an arm of justifying and spreading colonial logics...

... conservatives. On the other hand, a 2003 law on gender recognition for people with GID (gender identity disorder) endorsed the patriarchal system in which only some transsexual people would be recognized. The author argues that these backgrounds allow “gender critical” feminists to oppose what they see...

... and Paternotte 2017b : 10) traveling under the banner of “gender-critical” politics. In all its multiple manifestations, gender-critical discourse ostensibly takes issue with the feminist theoretical notion that sex and gender are social and cultural inventions (Scott 2016 : 300) and, crucially...

...Sayak Valencia; Olga Arnaiz Zhuravleva Abstract This article proposes two specific interventions, utilizing a critical transfeminist positioning to critique a transexclusionary perspective in writing and research on the crucial problem of necropolitics and the murder of women in Mexican society: (1...

...Jun Zubillaga-Pow Abstract Based on the critical concept of trans*aesthetics, the author examines the aesthetic agency of photography and photographs of and for trans* women living in two iconic periods within the history of modern Singapore, namely, the early 1980s and early 2010s. He prioritizes...

... journal provides a brief outline of what has been accomplished in the latter through an engagement with the former. This reflection is not intended to be an exhaustive review of trans*-somatechnics relations. Instead, here we highlight topics and modes of study that are indicative of critical interest...

...Grace Lavery Abstract This essay contemplates an enduring form of reasoning it titles “egg theory”: the type of reasoning that trans people use, prior to transition, to prove transition's impossibility or fruitlessness. It follows this reasoning in a critical and ironic framing in the work...

..., LGBT, gay, or gay and lesbian framework. The fact that the collection is part of an undergraduate and graduate research and teaching center positions it to critically engage with elements of trans positivity, trans tokenization, trans marginalization, and outright transphobia or cis-sexism that appear...

...Alexander Eastwood Abstract This essay examines the burgeoning relationship between transgender studies and literary criticism by interrogating the terms of their commensurability. Recent debates within critical theory have at times detrimentally deployed marginalized figures, such as transsexuals...

...Scott L. Morgensen Abstract Indigenous critics are interrogating the violences of modernity as conditions for understanding or debating gender, alongside critical works in trans studies and in queer-of-color, queer diaspora, and women-of-color feminist theories. This essay asks how two-spirit...

... studies insofar as she elucidates French “gender-critical” feminism and its transfeminist critics. 29. In sociology, the term transfuge de classe , which can be translated as either “class renegade” or “class defector,” connotes someone who has left their class of origin through downward or upward...

... as a victim and trans women as abusive and/or delusional, with an accompanying association of trans women with virtual spaces, set against cis women inhabiting real-world spaces. The newspapers' subsequent, respective refusal to publish counter articles criticizing the opinion pieces is then described...

..., it is a uniquely rich documentation of a subcultural community spanning over thirty years. The author discusses a critical shift in my handling of these archival materials, beginning with a slide show entitled “The $10,000 Woman.” The incorporation of oral histories by trans women in the photograph archive turned...

... and remarginalization within the coalition of trans activists and feminists. By analyzing how grassroots trans/feminists negotiate such problems, this article argues that trans/feminist praxis transgresses subjective, intellectual, and political borders and calls for more critical feminist engagements in Chinese trans...

...Sidney Cunningham Abstract This essay responds to Slavoj Žižek's recent criticism of trans activism by arguing for an understanding of gendered recognition within the symbolic-social realm that goes beyond acknowledgment and acceptance of diverse gender identities without requiring the presumption...

... their critical responses to the AIDS crisis. None have a better grasp of the virtuosity of virtual interfaces than mixed-media artist Olivero Rodriguez. Drawing on his literary and image-based art piece entitled The Papi Project (2010–18), this essay articulates how he works in tandem with speculation...

... to raise critical questions about the representation of trans death, and to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of documentary as a trans activist tool. In doing so, the author lays out a looping logic as a parallel proposition to the vortical violences of colonization and transmisogny. This loop...