...—was that the cognitive dissonance came from the gap between normative expectations of expression and how I spoke. The problem wasn't an imperfect bilingualism. I had blended Italian and English so well that neither sounded like itself anymore. But what if this new language worked at describing the world I was seeing...

... attention to the process of subjectivation and self-constitution as a site to contest and unsettle gendered and sexual norms (Negri 2015 ), in dialogue with the “Trans Imaginaries” section in this book. Furthermore, a dialogue between these strands of study might, on the one hand, help locate trans studies...

... transgender as constitutive to the dynamic urban assemblage instead of carving out a space and time external to it. It argues that the critical lens of assemblage in the analysis of transgender practice reveals the constitutive queerness of the norm, troubling the political and analytic tenet...

... systems, transgender communities, and nontransfeminist scholars re/produce and re/enforce transnormativity by citing hegemonic gender norms. In the same way, they re/enforce and re/produce the hegemonic gender norms by citing transnormativity. In this essay, the author argues that transnormativities...

...Julian Gill-Peterson Abstract This essay travels with the testosterone molecule to pursue a theory of racialized and trans embodiment as technical capacities of all bodies, not only of the trans-of-color subject subordinated to racially normative and gender-normative white and cisgender bodies...

...Naomi Scheman Abstract The essay is a retrospective reflection on “Queering the Center by Centering the Queer: Reflections on Transsexuals and Secular Jews,” which critically explored the structures of normative intelligibility through a comparison of experiences of unintelligibility. Twenty years...

.... If transgender as an identity category emerged from the violent process of separating homosexuality and transsexuality to constitute gayness as normative, Mizrahi emerged from pitting the Jew and the Arab against each other to constitute the “new Jew,” a coherent member of a normative (whitened) nation. Yet...

... of the transcendent in the everyday. Using Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's model of the misfit, trans and disabled experience can be understood as a temporal misfitting under the cis and abled norms of neoliberal capitalism, which seeks to contain, suppress, or eliminate their inefficient, flexible, and waste time...

... to these normalizing systems. The article concludes with proposals that would make trans populations more legible to policy makers and the mass media without imposing outdated medical norms on the trans community. References American Psychiatric Association . 1994 . Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...

...reese simpkins Abstract The author argues that trans* materialities are part of a trans*feminist politics of becoming-intersectional, which emphasizes the movement underlying identificatory processes. Articulating trans* as a dynamic movement of becoming-intersectional undermines both the normative...

... a loss of certitude for parents, in that parents lose the invisible privileges that accrue to those who occupy an unmarked place within the cisgender norm. To do this, the authors draw on survey data from sixty Australian cisgender parents of transgender children, exploring specifically how they spoke...

... that aim to claim inclusion in normative gender categories through renegotiating the meaning of men and women . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 gender identity law Guatemala documentation 11. The Queen (on the application of C) v. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions...

... identity, and gender politics on trans patients. The appeal to the intense and intrinsic suffering of the trans patient because they cannot become the normatively gendered person they always believed themselves to be, the authors argue, elides the diversity of trans experience as well as coerces trans...

... from, or even at odds with, those of queer studies. Revisiting Sandy Stone's field-defining 1991 essay “The Empire Strikes Back,” they note that trans studies paradoxically begins with a call to abandon the figure of the transsexual, imagined solely as a normative medical category. In contrast...

...Marty Fink Abstract This paper reads insomnia in Imogen Binnie's queer/trans novel Nevada (2013) not as a body problem to be cured but as a valuable site of resistance to hetero, able-bodied norms. Binnie, however, depicts the daily effects of capitalism on regimenting sleep routines, rendering...

... that the future is the realm of the normative reproducing subject. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Russia Fyodor Dostoevsky castration temporality nihilism In the late eighteenth century, records emerged of a peasant by the name of Andrei Ivanov Blokhin who convinced a dozen people...

... of the drag industry, and suggest that the “policing” of drag, identified by Sarah Tucker Jenkins, may be eroding. In essence, RPDR has shown a decisive trend toward more stylistic liberty. This includes the liberty to break previously established rules around gender norms in performance. The show's greater...

... in general. The objective is to reflect ethnographically on the embodiment of gender as norm and leakage, showing the constant tension between the representation and the experience of it. 6. Anxélica Risco, field diary, March 11, 2014. 7. Anxélica Risco, field diary, March 11, 2014. 32. Among...

... recognition. First, all modes of recognition presuppose a norm of human likeness and species solidarity; rather than expand this range of human inclusiveness (that relies on differentiation), we might think of attributing political and ethical worth to those with whom we feel neither solidarity nor...

... between linguistic and literary translations and historical attempts to categorize transsexuality, thus rendering transsexuality legible within normative gender categories. In this account, categorization is treated as a historical analogue of translation, the repetitions and failures of which can...