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Girl Talk and Hold Music: Applied Theatre for Feminine Boys and Trans Girls
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 527–543.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Annie Sansonetti Abstract In this article, the author visits filmmaker Wu Tsang's 2015 short film Girl Talk at the New Museum in New York. The film's documentation of a dance, the author's fieldwork in the museum, and Tsang's cinematography evidence how feminine boyhood and trans girlhood...
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Decolonizing Knowledge of Black Queer Gender
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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 140–147.
Published: 01 February 2020
... Houston illustrates the losing game of survival: she never learned to swim underwater, a skill, like self-acceptance, necessary to survive. The colors of the ocean are suggested here. The conclusions are a meditation on carefree black girlhood, as exemplified by the author's own great grandmother Arties...
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Parenting Trans Kids in a Cisgender World
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TSQ (2021) 8 (4): 579–581.
Published: 01 November 2021
... reified and perpetuated the gender binary rather than deconstructing it. As such, Meadow contributes to literature in the sociology of gender by analyzing how trans boyhood and girlhood do not automatically rupture cisnormative notions of a gender binary. This literature has historically utilized trans...
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A New Vagina Didn't Make Her Sad (It Didn't Have To)
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 345–348.
Published: 01 August 2020
.... For instance, when Chu speaks of being swamped by the same regret I've certainly felt—watching a girlhood forever out of reach played out on other women's bodies and in other women's lives—I find my ears pricking up. She takes such experiences, including her own (unexplained) suicidality, as givens...
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Ajita Wilson: Blaxploitation, Sexploitation, and the Making of Black Womanhood
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 192–207.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and transform the “biological” definition of “woman.” They have worked against the dominant social understanding that womanhood is a series of experiences leading from girlhood to adulthood based on physical maturation (e.g., getting one's period, the growth of breasts, etc.) and have shown that the path...
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TSQ (2025) 12 (1): 27–44.
Published: 01 February 2025
... Indigenous heritage is unspecified; hooks relays her Native descendancy and her mixed Black, Indigenous, and white heritages in Black Looks: Race and Representation ( 1992 ) and Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood ( 1997 ). 3. I will use Indigiqueer throughout as a stand‐in for queer and/or gender...
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Lou's Men: Sameness, Leo Bersani, and the Legacy of Lou Sullivan
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TSQ (2024) 11 (3): 415–434.
Published: 01 August 2024
... transform lesbianism into heterosexuality via trans identification, and (b) that Lana's girlhood could phantasmatically incorporate the lesbianism Brandon supposedly turns away from. This theorization only works if gay desire is reducible to desire across genital sameness and if, as he insists in another...
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Fascist Feminism: A Dialogue
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 August 2022
... “abolition feminism.” I sniff misogyny a mile away. My whole white queer middle-class European girlhood was awash in red-hot antipatriarchal emotion! Lastly, I think I actually see “feministness” as partly outside individuals' choice and control, as a relation of social recognition. For example, my...
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“There Is Nothing Missing in the Real”: Trans Childhood and the Phantasmatic Body
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 431–450.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the gendering of boyhood and girlhood is so intense? What role does the fantasy of children's ignorance of sexual difference and sexual anatomy—a fantasy certainly not held within Freudian psychoanalysis (cf. Freud [1907] 1963 )—play in the psychic life of the gender binary, and what demands does it make...
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A Tranifesto for the Dolls: Toward a Trans Femme of Color Theory
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 328–349.
Published: 01 November 2023
... named Keisha, speaking to boys on the phone as Keisha after school, and eventually internalizing Keisha as a critically imaginative element of her multiracial trans girlhood in Oahu. Young Mock explains, “Keisha was more real to me than I was to myself. . . . She was fully me, the me I knew myself...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 311–333.
Published: 01 August 2022
... to the experience of cis girlhood (in Shrier's case) and women (in Fox's, although again, the assumption that butch is a word for cis women or lesbians is, for many, an inappropriate one). 11 We invoke these examples to illustrate how trans-exclusionary feminisms deploy the rhetorical flashpoints...
