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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 577–607.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Kristeva's intimate politics. The author then illustrates how this internal logic of revolt unfolds within trans and queer experiences of identity and embodiment. In doing so, the author examines conditions of precarity that threaten the survivability of trans and queer populations, particularly with respect...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 306–320.
Published: 01 August 2020
... conditions of precarity under which trans knowledge-workers work, the authors argue that trans studies can't be “over” because, in fact, it isn't yet here. Rather than viewing this as only a dismal proposition, however, they insist that the tenuousness of trans studies provides us with the opportunity...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (1): 135–140.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of negative affect and economic precarity and as a trope erased in cinematic time, through the central character Rayon (Jared Leto), a trans* woman, and the establishment of an HIV medication “buyers club” in the mid-1980s. References Anzaldúa Gloria E. 1987 . Borderlands/La Frontera: The New...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (2): 145–155.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., political alliances, and demands for bodily sovereignty inflected by legal forms, human rights discourses, racial formations, and indigenous territorial claims. These concerns, which exceed sexed and gendered identification, are variously contoured by the lived material precarity that often structures life...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (2): 141–144.
Published: 01 May 2019
... in the special issue introduction, is the institutional precarity of trans studies in the Global South. While in the Global North trans studies’ institutionalization has resulted in the creation of faculty cluster hires, individual faculty positions, and research positions, many do not emphasize scholarship...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 670–673.
Published: 01 November 2020
... presume we will survive, so it feels unethical to consider how we might suffer. To further complicate the affect of indeterminacy, some of us have a real problem with the real. I offer these speculations to make some intimate links between precarity and positionality, and to explore the impact...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 455–462.
Published: 01 August 2020
.... Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 symposium trans studies cross-generational conflict critical university studies precarity In the summer of 2018, a letter of support for New York University (NYU) senior professor Avital Ronell—who had been accused of sexual harassment by one...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (1): 135–140.
Published: 01 February 2021
... chapter calls us all to “imagine academe as it might be” (181) and disrupt institutional and cultural norms that shape trans academics' experiences of isolation, alienation, precarity, and silence, rather than community, familiarity, security, and voice. As a whole, the book and the study on which...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (1): 141–152.
Published: 01 February 2017
... by bureaucracy, depression, anxiety, and precarity? So when Jacques writes that she “felt trapped not by my body but [by] a society that didn't want me to modify it” (76), she is directing us to what it means to survive in a society where the only right kind of wrong body is the sensationalized wrong body...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 February 2022
... exclusively uses empirical social science methodologies, and few scholars have analyzed t4t crowdfunding as a cultural text. 2 Third, the COVID-19 crisis has amplified the visibility and popularity of mutual aid practices in the face of exponentially increased precarity around the world. Previously...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (2): 159–161.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., in a historical moment when images of black trans women saturate mass media as never before, yet the precarity of black transfeminine lives has rarely been greater, how might the field of transgender studies be building its relevance and accruing its cultural capital on such black women's backs and using...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 419–439.
Published: 01 August 2014
... killed this year as well as last are trans women of color. This is important to note because while we are all inoculated within a generalized state of precariousness, the realities of precarity afforded to trans women of color highlight an especially egregious form of hateful state violence that renders...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 February 2017
... privilege and precarity alongside commodities. Such an approach also makes possible the emergence of a “ comprador LGBT movement” (some of largest LGBT organizations doing international work are funded by the US State Department) that advances the interests of global capitalism, economic imperialism...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 137–145.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... Such organizing took shape around a diversity of models of autonomy, including trans women who organized around shared precarities (among these homelessness, police violence, sex work and other criminalized work, trans misogyny, and homophobia with an analysis of the way race organizes each of these) and allied...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (4): 481–490.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and trans vitality.” This signaling of the precarity of black trans life is echoed by black trans activist Lourdes Ashley Hunter's ( 2015 ) bold assertion that “every breath a black trans woman takes is an act of revolution.” Even further, Hunter's declaration is animated by its resonance with the 2014...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (3): 409–412.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., to unravel, along with Achille Mbembe's ( 2019 ) lens, “who may live and who may die” (73). There, at the border, the text dissects the Coyotaje installation, making intelligible the “disposability of transmigrants as constructed by the global economy” (69). Such maximization of precarity, argues Gómez...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (1): 28–44.
Published: 01 February 2017
... and opportunities to break out of traditional confines of gender, race, and class.” Freeman notes that entrepreneurial practices “suggest radical transformations” in institutions and cultural life: “These are at once creative and onerous, spaces of aspiration and precarity, engaging and reconstituting both...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (2): 188–198.
Published: 01 May 2021
... University Press . Pitt (Cohen) Joni , and Monk Sophie . 2016 . “ ‘We Build a Wall around Our Sanctuaries’: Queerness and Precarity .” Novara Media , August 28 . novaramedia.com/2016/08/28/we-build-a-wall-around-our-sanctuaries-queerness-as-precarity/ . PMS (Power Makes us Sick...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (1): 30–48.
Published: 01 February 2018
... stresses the precarity of his situation with a metaphor: “Cato in a snake pit.” Üzüm is characterized in a spatiotemporal relationship to everyone else. She is “the über-goddess of the limbo, where everyone is stuck.” Udi is identified solely in his relationship with Roy: “Udi with Roy.” By contrast, Roy...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 404–424.
Published: 01 August 2018
... forms of kabaklaan, biyuti offers a contingent if somewhat limited place from which scholars, activists, and artists have underscored the realities of transgender precarity, in/visibility, and death. By reading kabaklaan and biyuti in this way, I purposely depart from recent scholarship that sees...
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