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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 637–648.
Published: 01 November 2016
... poetry had a formative influence on founding trans poets Samuel Ace and Max Valerio. 5. Unlike most trans people, the speaker has a similarly fraught relationship with the soul, suggesting that Dickinson may have beaten everyone to posthumanity. References Auden W. H. 1979...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (4): 523–538.
Published: 01 November 2014
... fictional scenarios, critiquing patriarchy by morphing facts to reach a deeper emotional, feminist truth. In Normal Sex , Ace continually unsettles by speaking from a childlike position—a voice allowing him to address violent and difficult things. The speaker in the poem “The Shower” reports...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 333–356.
Published: 01 November 2016
... wrong? What is amiss? How can we mitigate as quickly as possible the awkward simultaneity before us, which undermines the grandeur and authority of the singular? Medieval and early modern speakers, such as the seventeenth-century transgender memoirists discussed by Emily Rose in this issue, had...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 574–588.
Published: 01 November 2018
... in oral tradition to the modern day. Chelsea Vowel, a Métis author from the Plains Cree–speaking community of Lac Ste. Anne, conducted an informal research project among Plains Cree speakers and found a number of words for people who do not easily fit within modern Western standards of gender...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2014
... describe not only a crazy woman but also a gender-nonconforming homosexual man. While the noun loca is roughly analogous to terms like sissy or (flaming) queen , and Spanish speakers use it transnationally to describe particularly “effeminate” homosexual men, different regions also employ other...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 569–577.
Published: 01 November 2016
... to. In short, I struggled to translate a book that even original-language speakers of Chinese find confusing. What to do? I couldn't go to Qiu herself for clarification; she was dead. Last Words from Montmartre , a book that chronicles the self-annihilating intentions of its elusive narrator, was the final...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 463–475.
Published: 01 August 2020
... ) and a research consultant on the film; and Professor Susan Stryker, who, like Lili Elbe, needs no introduction for this readership. What emerged in the exchange among the guest speakers and the audience was a more nuanced, complex, historically grounded understanding of the film. The following afternoon...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (3): 367–375.
Published: 01 August 2015
... politics in relation to who is granted access to teaching youth in Spain, and how the extension of US exceptionalism affords some—particularly native English speakers—greater access to employment in a country that has the highest unemployment rates in Europe and, as a result, forecloses those same...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 241–244.
Published: 01 May 2014
... within grammar. To paraphrase Judith Butler, “I” still cannot speak “apart from the grammar that establishes my availability to you” ( 1999 : xxiv; see also Stone 1991 ). Grammar signs gender as well as race, age, dis/ability, social status. The speaker is never indigenous, pure, or even original...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 187–190.
Published: 01 May 2014
... University organized a conference on body modification. The aim of the event was to articulate the diverse ways in which all bodies — not simply those that are tattooed or those that have undergone some sort of transformative surgical procedure — are always already modified. One of the keynote speakers...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 August 2015
... on regulating gender and sexuality, reinforcing the structure and ideology of binary gender that is durable and difficult to step outside of. Ms. Green's interruption, “We're listening to one mic” (line 1), told Shavonne that Lisa was the only sanctioned speaker at the moment. Her intention in interjecting...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 443–459.
Published: 01 August 2022
... harm in religions. This article shows that freethinkers understand the embrace of gender diversity and trans liberation as a form of secular dogma requiring their critique. That these speakers do so from an anti-religion stance that is itself dogmatic is, for students of religious studies, less...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (1): 143–147.
Published: 01 February 2018
... preparation for forming an international trans studies association. We don't want a trans studies association that treats bodies as objects to study or ignore, or that reproduces the disproportionate status accruing to academically trained English-language speakers. We want a discipline that treats physical...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 524–544.
Published: 01 November 2016
... splitting apart trauma intimate, no joke at all. The poem does not explicitly identify the speaker of the italicized portions: are they the loops of the speaker's “unconscious,” making themselves known with urgent and symptomatic intrusions into the more legitimate speech they splinter? Or simply...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (3): 447–463.
Published: 01 August 2015
... have this same conflict because words like kids and students don't denote any specific gender. For me, addressing the students as chicos felt more comfortable because it was not enforcing any binary. As a nonnative speaker, I wasn't fully aware of the feminine erasure that that perpetuates...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 245–248.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... In The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age (1996), Stone explains how the act of listening to a public lecture by Stephen Hawking, amplified through microphone, computer, and speakers, can create a communicative intimacy that trespasses the presumed boundaries of the body...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 376–387.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., there are separate personal pronouns for masculine ( hann ), feminine ( hún ), and neuter ( það ) words. Hence, the gender of a person is interwoven with verbal expression in a complicated way, and the spoken language is entirely permeated with deictic references to the gender of the speaker and addressee. Hence...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (1): 153–157.
Published: 01 February 2017
.... Elsewhere, the speaker imagines what becomes possible by thrusting oneself into roles. In the poem “On nights when I am Brandon Teena,” Day uses sound to transmit an identification with Teena, a trans man murdered in landlocked Nebraska in 1993, imagining the “sharp squeal of the screen door...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (4): 720–724.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., the keynote speaker at the National Workshop, who, in her opening essay, challenges parents and schools to listen to the needs of children and “learn to live with gender ambiguity and not pressure our children with our own need for gender bedrock” (23). Ehrensaft, the author of the groundbreaking book Gender...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (4): 649–653.
Published: 01 November 2014
... speakers using English, the minimalism of a good one-liner, and the habit of years of words not said. The style matches the story. It's a tale of the children of immigrants, strangers in a strange land that is also their own. Immigration is perhaps the closest suitable metaphor for transsexual experience...