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...Nicole Seymour Abstract This piece reports on the “Trans ± Sex: Rethinking Sex/Gender in Trans Studies” symposium held at the University of Arizona in September 2019. It focuses on two major themes that appeared throughout the symposium: cross-generational conflict and the death of the university...

... accomplished. The work, as he describes it, was unforgiving and tedious: each day he was entirely given over to his typewriter, writing canned erotic narratives with limited direction from management save for a few quantitative requirements (page count, number of sex acts, and frequency of sex scenes...

...Sooyoung Kim Abstract Yangssaekshi (Western bride), Yanggongju (Western princess), and Yangggalbo (Western whore), also translated as “Camptown sex worker,” are the terms for South Korean women who provided sexual and service labor to the US soldiers during and after the Korean War. Yet buried here...

... for teaching audiences how to perceive a body, thereby facilitating the movement of a body into the grammar of a sex/gender system. Second, with these aerial apparatuses testing the boundaries of gravity, space, and time, the aerialist Lulu specifically tested the boundaries of a sex/gender system to create...

... entangled with the field's treatment of “biological sex,” and an attentiveness to questions concerning home, habitat, and milieu. To develop this argument, the essay analyzes important works of queer and trans ecology, from Catriona Sandilands and Bruce Erickson's Queer Ecologies (2010) to writing by Oliver...

...Nihils Rev; Fiona Maeve Geist Abstract This article interrogates how the figure of the trans street-based sex worker is deployed to argue for positive intervention on behalf of trans individuals, in addition to how it is used at the expense of a variety of trans experiences of sex work...

..., and self-respect. Many identify with the cowboy ideal of trucking and with the truck itself to both fit into, and rebel against, the changing workforce dynamics of surveillance and technology. Ethnographic data suggest that sex is one form that rebellion takes. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press...

... of the Western linguistic map, it is instructive to look at some core trans-related terms in Finnish and English. In particular, the different ways of dividing the conceptual space of gender/sex/sexuality make a difference in fighting the sexualization of trans people. To some extent it also affects the degree...

... posing also identified as transgender or as having an intersex condition. The models had a range of body types, some of which were visibly identifiable as transgender or intersex, some not. The project aimed to engage the participants with complex ideas around sexed and gendered bodies that pertained...

...Zara Saeidzadeh Abstract Sex-change surgery has been practiced through a medico-judicial process in Iran based on Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic juristic legal opinion (fatwa), which he issued just a few years after the Islamic revolution, in 1982. According to the Iranian legal system, judges can...

..., the author explains how sex change worked as a device in Chile during that period. Then, the author discusses a leaflet with photographs of Marcia Alejandra, configured according to the rhetoric of “before” and “after” her gender reassignment surgery, in order to analyze how these images published...

...Julian B. Carter Abstract “Sex Time Machine for Touching the Transcestors” documents three months of Julian B. Carter’s Transgenderational Touch Project (2016–present). Carter is creating and documenting intimate contact across trans generations, mobilizing his social network to connect people old...

... decriminalization of sex work. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 SESTA/FOSTA decriminalization sex work Transgender women, especially transgender women of color, are made into whores by our nation which, in turn, subjects us to inhumane conditions from which there exists no foreseeable...

...Skylar Adams Abstract In this essay, Skylar Adams highlights the ways in which porn has provided her with not only economic stability but also a creative outlet and a sense of belonging and community. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 trans pornography sex work sexual...

...Ellis Martin; Zach Ozma Abstract Editors of the recent publication We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan consider Sullivan's writing as an assertion of transmasculine embodiment and pleasure in gay sex culture via his “portal to historical thinking.” With intertextual...

... experiment to envision future notions of relationality—while shifting the hypernormative and cis hetero-romantic logics behind contemporary understandings of what sex robots should do and/or be. This is an exploration of the challenges/potentialities of relationships “AmongWithToThrough” humans and nonhuman...

... for conscription or exemption, the transgender body is a material manifestation of the insecurities of a rigid sex/gender system perpetuated by a masculine and patriarchal military institution. Written on the bodies of trans people is the militarization of the sex/gender system. The Cold War–born Korean military...

.... By focusing on scenes of sex in Rumfitt's novel, I show how Tell Me I'm Worthless both theorizes the trans experience of living in a state of impasse, in which all the potential futures are seemingly occluded and unavailable, as well as proposes methods for enduring this state without cracking under...