... works. He dedicated the last twenty years of his life to writing his memoirs. They were written at the request of the Marquise de Lambert and were only published long after his death in 1724. The “Histoire de Madame de Sancy” (“Story of Madame de Sancy”) was first published in 1839; in this chapter...

...Emily Rose Abstract This article discusses how a trans-disciplinary exploration of two translations from French and Spanish to English of two early modern transgender memoirs could create a new angle on the translation of trans identity. Translation equals manipulation and the power to re-present...

... and Jennings Jazz New York : Dial Books for Young Readers , 2014 . 32 pp. Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen Andrews Arin New York : Simon and Schuster , 2014 . 288 pp. Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition Hill Katie Rain New York...

... between the 1950s and 1970s, up to and including her memoir Conundrum , and represents arguably only the first of three periods in Morris's writing. This essay argues that two subsequent periods diversify our understanding of Morris as a complex, transcultural figure: her broadly leftist, anticolonial...

...Brian James Baer Abstract This article discusses the anglophone reception of the life and work of the East German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Particular attention is paid to the translation and marketing of von Mahlsdorf's memoir...

...Chiara Pellegrini Abstract The following is a transcription of an interview with Juliet Jacques, conducted and edited by Chiara Pellegrini. Placing Trans: A Memoir ( 2015 ) in the context of Jacques's larger body of work, the interview discusses writing in the first person, transitioning...

...Andrea Long Chu Trans: A Memoir . Jacques Juliet . London : Verso Books , 2015 . 320 pp. Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality . Salamon Gayle . New York : Columbia University Press , 2010 . 240 pp. 3 illustrations. Second Skins: The Body...

... in a femininity I could neither fit nor escape. In a way, the dress was me, after all” (101). Ultimately, the great contribution of Ladin's memoir is to awaken readers at the level of imagination and vision—not only at the level of political consciousness or empathetic awareness. Life, Ladin argues...

... the white middle-class transsexual memoir and toward a new era of trans of color cultural production by women like Laverne Cox and Janet Mock. Yet, Aizura writes, “the recent focus on trans women of color in trans cultural representations evidences a historical shift toward neoliberal multiculturalism...

... memoirs like Paul B. Preciado's Testo Junkie and Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out. In a recent conversation about autotheory, Wark asks, “How can we be conceptual about the mundane?” (Fournier and Wark 2020 ). How can we engender theory and concepts from our particular lived...

... transmasculine people to both a larger community and a longer history of existence. Within the field of trans studies, those with particular interests in masculinity studies, disability studies, trans and gay memoir, and the overlap of gay and trans movements in organizations during the late mid- to end...

... “bright and beautiful” (40), is a living testimonial to the forms of trans resilience in the face of trauma that the narrator is about to be initiated into. Over the course of the “confabulous memoir,” she will fight (and kill) cops and johns to defend herself and her trans sisterhood, fall in love...

... to community and land in ways that seem unreachable earlier, while also showing that true healing is never a straight line. Simpson's memoir does not just illustrate concepts—it forces the reader to feel them. It also works as a salve on the wounds described in their text, mirroring simpson's own efforts...

... constituted as a field. William B. Taylor, the historian who introduced me to historiography, put a then-recent translation of the 1626 memoir attributed to Catalina de Erauso/Alonso Díaz de Guzmán in my hands and suggested I write my seminar paper on the figure. The last thing I wanted to do was claim...

... on Jacques's Trans: A Memoir as a text that purposely subverts the genre of the trans memoir, the conversation opens up to a more general discussion of Jacques's practice of producing work that spans different media and genres. We also present in this section a review by Cyle Metzger of artist Chris Vargas's...

... and Loathing,” which appears as the last third of the most recent edition of her memoir, Mirrors . 3. The first edition of Elliott's memoir Mirrors ( 1996 ), personal interview ( Elliott 2009 ), unpublished manuscript and personal e-mail correspondences, Lesbian Tide ( 1973 ), and other sources...

... A is that no one's identity can be distinct from their decision making. As Allen's memoir-biography elegantly shows, the conditions of hypercriminalization, the war on drugs, California's three-strikes rule, and racist policing have constrained Michael's choices since he was born. For the most part, Cuz walked...

... categorical designations such as male, female, human, machine, cis, and trans at the molecular level. The multiple times of trans elude the linear rationality of history and visible subjects of knowledge. Trans uses of cultural forms, including literary and popular memoir, live performance, documentary...

... body of work, including public conversations with bell hooks on the Black female body (The New School 2014b ) and with Melissa V. Harris-Perry ( 2014 ). In 2014, writer, director, and producer Janet Mock published her first memoir, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, and So...

.... In contrast to trans memoirs, where the genre, no matter how literary the style, mandates that readers attune to the biographical experiences of a real person, Binnie's readers invest in her fictional rendering of her narrators’ unreliability as realism. They find in it an essential aspect of portraying...