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A Love Letter to the Future (from the Surgical Team of the Trans Sciences Collective)
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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 663–669.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Harlan Weaver Abstract “A Love Letter to the Future” speculatively fabulates a future that has undergone a (the?) surgery at the hands of a team of trans scientists. Explicating the how and why of decisions to remove organs of oppression, systems that engender violence, and individual nodules...
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Turning toward Pedagogy in a Crisis
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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 670–673.
Published: 01 November 2020
... “represented” even if the existing archive is far from representative. I offer these speculations to make some intimate links between precarity and positionality, and to explore the impact of normative feelings in a time of crisis. We might be most familiar with the subject that turns away to neglect...
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Transfiguring the Anthropocene: Stochastic Reimaginings of Human-Beaver Worlds
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 297–316.
Published: 01 May 2015
... . “ Interview: The Age of Entanglement .” By Else Liz . New Scientist , June 21 , 50 – 51 . Haraway Donna J. 2014 . “ Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture's Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country .” In Kirksey 2014 , 242 – 61 . Hayward Eva . 2008 . “ Lessons from...
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Future Fatigue: Trans Intimacies and Trans Presents (or How to Survive the Interregnum)
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TSQ (2019) 6 (4): 635–658.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the subjects so impacted. I have found, in the speculative dystopic trans fictions of Kai Cheng Thom ( 2018 ) and Torrey Peters ( 2017 ), disruptive reworkings of temporalities of transition that offer a more capacious frame through which to incorporate the ongoing lived effects of negative affect...
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Short-Circuited Trans Care, t4t, and Trans Scenes
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TSQ (2022) 9 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 February 2022
... Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones as examples of “speculative dystopia” that challenge the present while also refusing to project a pleasant, uncomplicated dream of the future (647–48). Malatino argues that the narrative of Thom's book, presented as a memoir while also thwarting the idealized narrative...
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We Call Them Bandos : Black Trans Fugitivity in Baltimore's Geographies of Foreclosure
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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 266–288.
Published: 01 May 2022
... are not always-already foreclosed. Project 42’s memorial dress and performance both point to and re-create what Che Gossett ( 2018 ) calls “black trans fugitive spaces”—“temporary fabulous zones that are at once precarious while also full of desire and electricity.” Project 42’s memorial dress-in-motion invites...
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“Trans*historicities”: A Roundtable Discussion
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 658–685.
Published: 01 November 2018
... fabulation. As Hartman relates in Venus in Two Acts, sometimes imagining the otherwise of documentary evidence is the ethical requirement for engaging particular assemblies of materials, which have been organized to diminish and disparage certain kinds of lives. Lau: I nd that some level of speculation...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 527–553.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in the 1800s, placing her in Seneca Village, on the run—a fugitive from and in defiance of antiblack, antitrans law and order and the protocols of proper citizenship. Tourmaline enacts a cinematic and speculative imaginary akin to what Hartman ( 2008 : 11) terms “critical fabulation.” Tourmaline anarchives...
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Juliana Huxtable's Cow-Woman; or, A Black Trans Femme Route Toward Pleasure
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 247–264.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Informed by this positionality, Huxtable's work is a fruitful space to theorize the potentials of desire, pleasure, fertility, and reproductive labor. The system of exploitation that undergirds industrialized bovines and Black trans women, that which would control a speculative cow-woman, requires...
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“Necessary Bonding”: On Black Trans Studies, Kinship, and Black Feminist Genealogies
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TSQ (2022) 9 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 February 2022
... speculating “about the nature of life through pithy language that unmasked the power relations of their world” (68). Following Christian, I suggest that Mock's work is part of this genealogy of Black feminist writing. In a 2014 interview, Mock writes that her heroes are “women writers. I grew up with Zora...
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Trans Milieus: Sex/Gender and the Critique of “Nature”
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TSQ (2024) 11 (4): 572–593.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., as though you'd never find the valley, bedrock, ancient sea” (8). Here the speaker aligns himself with the geode; as both are cracked open, the second‐person addressee of the poem witnesses their glamor. Both are fabulous. This is not an essential truth, but an internal beauty. Thus the poem does two things...
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Documenting the Dead: Call Her Ganda and the Trans Activist Afterlife of Jennifer Laude
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TSQ (2021) 8 (1): 24–57.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., at the Quezon City Pink Film Festival, run by celebrated Filipino film artist and scholar Nick Deocampo. 6 The first night of the festival had been a fabulous flurry of feathers, with a spectacular showcase of transpinay performers, donned in elaborate costumes with abundant plumage and gobs of glitter...
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