... that can be seen by any individual but a spacing between bodies that is apparent only to the gaze. The essay suggests additionally that intersex studies can collaborate with trans* studies to interrogate medicalization and consider sexual difference as multidimensional rather than binary. iain...

...” in a social world. Using specific examples of texts and approaches to teaching and learning, this article inspires an examination of pedagogical approaches, not only to teaching intersex and trans studies, but also to teaching social justice, with an emphasis on bodily autonomy and bodily integrity from...

... to the religious, or divine. 2. Intersex activist Sean Saifa Wall recommends, “We have to confront our own monstrosity.” June 7, 2021 interview on the podcast Finding Our Way . The institutionalization of trans* studies and intersex studies has proceeded at radically different paces and scales...

...Quincy Meyers Abstract This article analyzes the history of trans identities and intersex subjectivities to understand intersex and trans intercommunity relations and identify coalitional strategies. Citing Black and postcolonial studies scholars such as C. Riley Snorton and Zine Magubane...

... within the genealogy of the medical management of transgender and intersex people. The study also examines how medical authority consolidates itself through the “trans-intersex nexus”—a mechanism in which trans and intersex people are placed in a relationship of simultaneous separation and reinforcement...

...Katie Goss Abstract Intersex thinkers and activists, queer-feminist science studies, and new materialist initiatives have argued that sex's complex materiality undermines the rigid binaries imposed by essentialist biology and exceeds the malleability of the body constructed as entirely open...

...., genealogically, inter-sectionally, trans-nationally) about intersex can yield a valuable reworking of many of the core terms within Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS). In their first chapter, “‘An Unnamed Blank That Craved a Name’: A Genealogy of Intersex as Gender,” Rubin establishes the book's...

... of texts, this essay will proceed by successive interpretations, that is, by a metaphoric method of interpretation. A reader may thus notice that I do not include many references to other scholars working in the areas of trans studies and intersex studies. Here, I borrow from C. Riley Snorton's ( 2017 : 10...

...Hilary Malatino Abstract Conventional approaches to trans inclusion in the women's, gender, and sexuality studies classroom often involve what Diana Courvant has called the “special guest” approach of bringing in trans, intersex, and gender-nonconforming folk to represent and authenticate trans...

... for gonads or other ostensibly sexed organs. Disqualified from scientificity under this paradigm were a patient's self-identity and embodied self-knowledge. 2 As trans and intersex studies scholars have noted (Preves 2001 ; Rubin 2012 ; and Repo 2013 ), the surgical episteme that grew up around...

... is on the violence that normativity inflicts on bodies and minds, I often feel much more a part of the disability studies community, and of disability rights activism, than I do in any particular field of gender studies. Yet my work on the early medicalization of disability connects strongly with intersex, which...

... for intersex athletes such as Semenya and Chand, much less scholarship analyzes how the hang-up on testosterone itself—whether endogenously produced or pharmaceutically regulated—unjustly targets transgender athletes. Concomitantly, how might sports and athleticism affect how trans studies theorizes the body's...

... the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Sometimes individuals are born with genital, genetic, or hormonal characteristics that some people find confusing. From this phenomenon of “intersex,” a range of claims...

... of this new legal gender to a narrow, medicalized conception of intersex. However, recent legal scholarship and a court case decided in December 2019 indicate that a broad coalition of trans and intersex activists might eventually be successful in expanding this conception to all forms of genderqueer...

... Intersex project ( vivirintersex.org ), a space for critical thinking on intersex in Spanish. I have a degree in women's studies from UAM Xochimilco, and do research on intersex topics, such as lived experience, medical frameworks, and intersex narratives in the process of subjective and collective meaning...

...Anna McNay; Jay Stewart Abstract Historically, the dominant body of representations of gender variance has been presented from the point of view of the medical practitioner: as abnormalities, as “other.” In spring 2013, thirty transgender and intersex people participated in GI's Anatomy, a series...

... the questions, what are the stakes and what are the consequences in a (photographic) negative generating and reflecting the artist's self-image? I attend to the vulnerabilities of the technical process as well as the strong formal and conceptual references to intersex bodies in medical photography and to aging...

.... This is a short field report based on the work of the Global Philanthropy Project (GPP), a network of funders collaborating to expand global philanthropic support to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people in the global South and East. In 2019–20, GPP's twenty...

...Saqer A. Almarri Abstract The study of gender, sex, and sexuality in Islam has been growing. However, close textual study of the jurisprudential frameworks that conceptualized the body and sex is lacking. This study examines a section of a medieval-era legal manual written by Al-Qadi Al-Nuʻman...

... on the challenge of how we are to escape monolingualism in transgender studies. 1. This review is based on seeing Trans Gender Moves during its first run, October 17–23, 2014. I have also read the script and watched a video of the performance from October 21, 2014. Trans Gender Moves was performed two...