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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 272–273.
Published: 01 May 2020
...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...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (1): 23–27.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of trans womanhood was established in the historical context of US Camptown sex work? How can we recognize the long omitted but ongoing history of these sex workers in current trans scholarship? And what kind of unexpected histories, knowledge, and possibilities will emerge when this community is treated...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 449–483.
Published: 01 November 2023
... gender crossings stages an additional test to the seemingly fixed socio-cultural-political laws and limitations of the human body. To invoke Judith Butler ( 1992 ): how, then, does Lulu “work the trap” of the sex/gender system by working the trap- eze ? Or, rather, how does Lulu work the sex/gender...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 611–614.
Published: 01 November 2020
...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...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (1): 112–127.
Published: 01 February 2017
...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...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 464–472.
Published: 01 August 2018
... 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...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 237–239.
Published: 01 May 2020
... 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...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 508–526.
Published: 01 November 2023
...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...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (1): 83–99.
Published: 01 February 2018
... 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...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (4): 552–558.
Published: 01 November 2014
... 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...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (1): 44–64.
Published: 01 February 2022
... 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...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (1): 58–76.
Published: 01 February 2015
... 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...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 585–597.
Published: 01 November 2020
... 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...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (1): 96–111.
Published: 01 February 2017
... 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...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (1): 16–27.
Published: 01 February 2017
... 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...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (4): 553–564.
Published: 01 November 2015
... what was originally indexed as a record of gay entertainment into a nuanced narration of transsexual history in 1970s Pittsburgh. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 sex work oral history drag social clubs Pittsburgh The House of Tilden was the crown jewel in a series...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 350–368.
Published: 01 November 2023
... 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...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (4): 679–681.
Published: 01 November 2022
... that takes seriously the work of queer of color critique, trans studies, and the theorization of racial capitalism. While stories of sex and nightlife have been told before within disciplinary fields such as literary studies, history, dance studies, theatre, performance, sociology, and anthropology...
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TSQ (2024) 11 (2): 287–317.
Published: 01 May 2024
... an examination of the internal differentiation of trans labor, which is often treated as homogeneous and uniformly abject. Second, it attempts to open up avenues to the analysis of trans labor beyond its historically dominant site, sex work. Although there is an unavoidably erotic and possibly pornographic...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 472–496.
Published: 01 November 2017
... subjectivity must always and only be named “sexual difference,” this essay creates an opening for thinking sex, gender, and sexual difference otherwise. In “The Sexual Is Political,” Žižek reiterates and rearticulates claims that will sound familiar to frequent readers of his work. For instance, he explains...
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