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...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...

... critical trans studies, that has formulated its own discursive territory through trans as a geopolitical marker of modernity. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Camptown prostitution US militarism trans historiography sex work Asian studies...

... for further work in queer and transgender historiography. Ultimately, I consider how Lulu's popularity as a figure of immense “wonder” is grounded in Lulu's performance of the both/and-ness of gender and sex—that Lulu performed at the precipice of becoming gendered while enacting play within and without...

...Che Gossett; Eva Hayward Abstract The following is an interview with activist Monica Jones conducted by Che Gossett and Eva Hayward. In this interview, Jones talks about her activism against the criminalization of sex work, recounting how the program Project ROSE, which was a revealing...

...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 pleasure, by opting for sex work and founding an organization that defends the rights of male and transgender sex workers, by not wanting to pass, by being neither this nor that, she is renyao , not a transgender person. This essay is to insert Kiki's self-representation, visually and linguistically...

...Vek Lewis Abstract This article provides a life history analysis of Pepa Moreno, a transgender individual from Puebla, Mexico. The life events that she narrated in the interview conducted at her home and business—her move out of street sex work and her start as a business and property owner—offer...

... 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...

...Jordan J. Tudisco Abstract Faced with the proliferation of TERF rhetoric outside academia, this article proposes a case study of an anti-trans, anti-gender, anti–sex work graduate student at a progressive American institution to challenge feminism to address the ways in which it is providing...

... to services, trans activist organizations work to make trans people visible within the nation-state. At the same time, changing the sex marker on their identification documents could make trans populations more vulnerable to surveillance. Therefore, trans activists seek to ensure that trans individuals...

... privilege, which in Mexico is inseparable from skin tonality. I argue that the photographs of mujercitos point to processes of subjectivation different from those outlined in prominent theories of performative gender/sex developed in Anglo North America, specifically the early work of Judith Butler...

... of a “transgender matrix,” this work explains how proliferating transgender imaginaries result in differing conceptualizations of sex, gender, sexuality, race, and culture that resonate with similarly variable public health research categorization practices. Demographic categories are double-edged swords...

... erotics, and what it means to think about these relationships now, in the face of their new emergence as cultural threat. The authors make a close reading of 2000s-era erotica and pornography to argue that Daddy/boy and group sex dynamics can be read as gender labor, affective and intersubjective work...

... to transphobia, migrant TGW face multiple forms of discrimination because of intersection with other experiences of stigma related to migration and working as sex workers in the host society. This study explores the experiences of TGW seeking care in an HIV and STI clinic in Paris, to evaluate medical adherence...

... to analyze the experiences of trans men and women and sex- and gender-diverse peoples in different but connected geopolitical locations. The emphasis was on bringing into conversation what is underprioritized in much PE work and also transgender studies as a formation, and how, from their own academic...

... 2017 trans employment working-class queers oral history queer ethnographic method truck drivers Trucking is a powerful symbol in the United States—of independence, motion, and sex. For transwomen who drive trucks, all the hardships of the job are amplified, but so is the sense...

... by Duke University Press 2015 sex work oral history drag social clubs Pittsburgh The House of Tilden was the crown jewel in a series of private social clubs that doubled as after-hours gay bars for twilight citizens in Pittsburgh proper and the rest of southwestern Pennsylvania...

... consider four women whose circulation through and labor within the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, Inc., maps the terrain of sexology's bids for credibility. Their respective roles in the business of sexology (the public face of gender transformation, a working housewife, a sympathetic social scientist...

... of sameness. “Same-sex desire” is represented by illustrations populated with uniform men—uniformly masculine, uniformly shaped, and usually wearing some kind of uniform. In Tom of Finland's world, as in the world of gay “clone” masculinity his work so directly inspired, the “same” of “same-sex” desire...

.... Briqhouse center the historical roots of sex work as labor that has sustained queer nightlife, supplying an erotic charge that far surpasses the respectability politics often afforded by white, gay assimilationist politics and the ways they structure the for-profit nightlife global industry. The essay...