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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 365–386.
Published: 01 August 2022
... as a rhetorical ruse to further Western supremacy, the article also shows the danger of the impulse to suspend postcolonial feminist critique in an effort to distance oneself from the anti-gender misappropriation of such theory and to unite around a common liberal front. Instead, it proposes that postcolonial...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (2): 195–207.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Erin Durban-Albrecht Abstract This article brings together black transgender studies and postcolonial studies to consider the possibility for trans* narratives of Haiti, known as the “Black Republic.” Based on ethnographic research with trani , trans*, and transgender Haitians, this article focuses...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (1): 64–79.
Published: 01 February 2019
... by allegedly “avant-garde” European institutions, such trans* politics reconstitutes and consolidates the colonial idea of Europe as the locus of “modernity,” “progress,” and as the “cradle of democracy.” As postcolonial and decolonial theory have shown (see for example Spivak 1988 , 1990 ; Mohanty 1988...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (2): 238–256.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and transnational perspectives. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 teaching trans/gender studies decolonising the curriculum feminist/lesbian transphobia critical race theory gender ideology antigender In this article, I argue that a decolonial perspective on gender means...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 200–204.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 From a military term designating a subordinate officer, the subaltern entered social and cultural theory via the Prison Notebooks of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci used...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 306–320.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., “the field” represented by even the small list above is obviously not a unitary one: the genealogies of trans studies can be variously traced through black and woman of color feminist theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, queer theory, poststructural feminisms, indigenous studies, and trans...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 323–325.
Published: 01 November 2017
... as a social institution has been resisted on many fronts, structuralist, poststructuralist, postcolonial, antiracist, feminist, and queer versions of psychoanalytic theory have nevertheless offered trenchant critiques of the dominant forms of heteropatriarchal and heterosexist culture. The contribution...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 658–685.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and think about the partial and arbitrary nature of all description and theory and to the complex interactions between people and technology, human bodies and other nonhuman animal forms, scales and intensities. Long : I just want to say that Riley Snorton's formulation of a “usable past for more...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 298–310.
Published: 01 August 2018
... of its most violent by-products. In response, deconstruction, postcolonial critiques, critical race theory, disability studies, and related strands of poststructuralist thinking have problematized the destructive effects of these binary frameworks. Trans can be said to have some affinity...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 707–711.
Published: 01 November 2018
... offer thought-provoking insight to understand the role of literary theory and cultural studies in addressing the intersections between identity work, the burden of the colonial experience, and the racialization of desire. The “Crossing Borders/Crossing Genders” section offers a discussion on the ways...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 199–210.
Published: 01 May 2022
...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...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 141–145.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in many areas of critical theory, which have examined the way the “regime of the normal” ( Warner 1999 ) has come to shape the lives of those whose sexualities, genders, and/or bodies do not conform to normative assumptions about them. Beginning with Michael Warner's landmark identification of queer...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 518–539.
Published: 01 November 2018
... saw social historians and cultural critics looking to the distant past to historicize same-sex desire and locate the origins of LGB identity. These early “ancestral” histories gave way to queer theories that—to use the phrase of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick—drew on Michel Foucault's “Great Paradigm Shift...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (4): 532–536.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of knowledge. It is also a reminder, as Macarena Gómez-Barris ( 2017 : 126) writes, to recognize when and how “local vernaculars of struggle” might get “run through the machine of North American theories, abstracting from local conditions of possibility and constraints” as a form of extractivism. Such cautions...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 404–424.
Published: 01 August 2018
... to show how performances of kabaklaan animate versions of trans* human rights that transform spaces often seen as unimportant and frivolous into sites of solidarity, creativity, and care. I thus see kabaklaan's continued proliferation as saying a lot less about the postcolonial subject's desires...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 303–307.
Published: 01 August 2014
... between acts of colonizing and a potential for postcoloniality; it becomes a virtual space for dreaming in the dark of how world, self, and other could be differently co-configured—or, in other words, decolonized. The “imaginary,” a concept derived originally from psychoanalytic theory, is articulated...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (1): 4–15.
Published: 01 February 2017
... , 2007 ) theories of governmentality and biopower, these scholars have focused on discourses of self-sufficiency, personal responsibility and productivity, investment in the self, and consumer activities to demonstrate the “psychic life” ( Butler 1997 ) of neoliberalism. They argue that political economy...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 320–337.
Published: 01 August 2014
... Depicts the Trans Revolution in Lipstick and Heels .” In The Transgender Studies Reader 2 , ed. Stryker Susan and Aizura Aren , 226 – 33 . New York : Routledge . Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . 1999 . A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (1): 103–116.
Published: 01 February 2019
... Long Chu : Let's face it: Trans studies is over. If it isn't, it should be. Thus far, trans studies has largely failed to establish a robust, compelling set of theories, methods, and concepts that would distinguish itself from gender studies or queer studies. Susan Stryker ( 2004 ) once wrote...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (1): 71–85.
Published: 01 February 2023
... 1990s scene of trans theory and activism, Hale's “Rules” were more than a corrective to cis-centric “positions” on trans people circulating at the time (esp. by Bernice Hausman); they were also a testament to friendship, as well as to the philosophical insights of María Lugones, Ludwig Wittgenstein...
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