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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 37–55.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Fadi Saleh Abstract In this article, the author foregrounds transgender as a useful category of analysis to shed light on the issue of gender variance and its articulations within the encounter between Syrian queer and gender-variant refugees and the humanitarian-asylum complex. Based...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 587–604.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the costs of the category of the human and unintelligibility under the law for gender variant bodies. References Bazant Micah . 1999 . Timtum: A Trans Jewish Zine . Biale Rachel . 1984 . Women and Jewish Law: The Essential Texts, Their History, and Their Relevance for Today . New...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 534–555.
Published: 01 November 2017
...-variant analysands, she argues that those compelled to change gender often do it because they are facing the most crucial issues of life and death. What is at stake is less gender fluidity than a way of being. Challenging the pathologization of transgenderism historically enforced by psychoanalysis...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (4): 634–652.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and trans experience to bear on HIV/AIDS, the author argues that HIV has long served as a racialized weapon of the state to subjugate neurodivergent and gender variant people, especially those of color. The AIDS crisis, following the rise of antipsychotics in psychiatry, offered the medical industrial...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 357–375.
Published: 01 November 2016
... to critique the pathologization of gender-variant identities in different sociocultural contexts, avoiding a Eurocentric frame of reference. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 travesti public health sex reassignment medicalization translation Since 2008, the Brazilian universal...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 508–516.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of a broader attack on transgender rights that uses the protection of children as a powerful pretense to scapegoat a minority. It suggests that the analyses and insights of the field of transgender studies could inform, enrich, and reconfigure current clinical and public-policy debates around gender-variant...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 368–386.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Seth Palmer Abstract At the turn of the twentieth century, a series of troublesome encounters unfolded between several French colonial medical doctors and gender-variant, male-bodied persons ( sarimbavy in Malagasy). Medico-ethnographic texts were published in academic journals in the French...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (3): 297–314.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Claire Pamment Abstract Pakistani hijra / khwaja siras make up structured communities of feminine-identified gender-variant persons who have long but marginalized traditions of performing religious-cultural roles. Supreme Court rulings in 2009, promising rights to marginalized khwaja siras, have...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 648–657.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Leah DeVun; Zeb Tortorici Abstract Special issue editors Leah DeVun and Zeb Tortorici interview Maya Mikdashi and Carlos Motta about their collaborative film, Deseos / رغبات ( Desires , 2015), which places queer and gender-variant historical characters within a fluid chronological framework...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (1): 64–79.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Yv E. Nay Abstract This essay scrutinizes the conundrum of recent trans* politics in the Global North and West. Although this trans* politics has achieved important social changes for some gender-variant people, it at the same time participates in neoliberal notions of equality. In addition, while...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 426–448.
Published: 01 November 2023
... writings of the white, gender-variant author Theodore Winthrop—particularly their most popular novel, Cecil Dreeme (1861). For Winthrop, bottoming desires occasion two modes of self-expression. First, they facilitate transfeminine embodiment, staging an experience of womanliness predicated on the racist...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (1): 54–58.
Published: 01 February 2023
... by graduate students in this issue, it argues that trans and gender-variant life is a more than sufficient basis for the field. Everything remains to be done. One starting place would be to reevaluate the entire anthropology and history of sexuality, which have always had gender variance at their center...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 99–103.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... Missé Miquel and Coll-Planas Gerard , 125 – 40 . Barcelona : Egales Editorial . Balzer Carsten , and Hutta Jan Simon . 2012 . Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide — A Comparative Review of the Human-Rights Situation of Gender-Variant/Trans People . With Adrián...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (4): 676–682.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Jack Caraves Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique . T. Jackie Cuevas . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 2018 . 169 pp. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Post-Borderlandia opens up with the case of the “San Antonio...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 285–297.
Published: 01 May 2014
... , 2013 . 694 pp . Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 New work in transgender studies sharpens analytical critiques of technologies of power and regimes of normalization; it also strives to make the world more livable for transgender and gender-variant people. Contributors...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 February 2020
.... “Transgender as a Humanitarian Category: The Case of Syrian Queer and Gender-Variant Refugees in Turkey,” by Fadi Saleh, offers a timely contribution to international debates about immigration, asylum, and the refugee crisis. It investigates the material consequences of the categories “transgender...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 232–234.
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 word transgender entered widespread use as an umbrella term for describing a range of gender-variant identities and communities within the United...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (1): 96–112.
Published: 01 February 2021
... khwajasara, see Hamzić 2016 and Jaffer 2017 . 6. Also called dera ; on homing and dwelling practices of khwajasara, see Hamzić 2019 . 5. I use s/he and his/her to reflect Mumtaz's self-performance of gender switching in spoken language and gender-variant relating to natal family...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (2): 265–269.
Published: 01 May 2021
...,” colonial officials faced a persistent problem of categorization—the repeated discoveries of various other gender-variant people. Their 1866 “discovery” of zananas who were not emasculated (whom Hinchy translates problematically as “effeminate men” [22]) significantly upended the colonial definition...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 320–337.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of communities and social movements of gender-variant persons in the global South, specifically South Asia? This essay is a set of reflections arising out of prolonged conversations in which we compared notes on our respective experiences as activist (Raina) and ethnographer (Aniruddha, henceforth Ani) working...