... and remarginalization within the coalition of trans activists and feminists. By analyzing how grassroots trans/feminists negotiate such problems, this article argues that trans/feminist praxis transgresses subjective, intellectual, and political borders and calls for more critical feminist engagements...

... textual analysis of these videos and their methods of addressing the viewer, the author identifies a practice within microporn networks that she calls trans* porno remix (TPR). Through digital editing techniques, TPR creates haptic spaces for the viewer to imagine themselves as trans* subjects. Through...

... invention of the binary trans and nonbinary trans . . . binary. A symptom of Beemyn's stated desire to make trans subjects more legible to cis people, this arbitrary line in the sand between one set of trans people and another relies on the proliferation of the “trans enough” trope, a reemergence of...

... author claims that “intimate revolt,” as conceived in Kristeva's later writings, is what mobilizes trans and queer subjectivities in a movement of endless regeneration. The article begins with an overview of the theme of revolt in Kristeva's psychoanalytic thought and stresses three interrelated...

...Dina Al-Kassim Abstract Casting off from the deployment of sexuality under modern biopolitics, the emergent subjectivities knitted between same-sex players and transexuals in Iran reveal networks of affiliation and fantasy best disclosed by psychoanalytic listening. Jean Laplanche's reworking of...

.... 1999 . “ Trauma and Beauty: Trans-subjectivity in Art .” In Fatal Women: Essays on Film Noir and Related Matters , edited by Soleim Kjell R. , 115 – 28 . Bergen, Norway : University of Bergen, Centre for Women's and Gender Research . Ettinger Bracha L. 2001 . “ Matrixial Gaze and...

... therefore investigates the taxonomical movement away from the transgender subject as perverse toward the current diagnosis of gender dysphoria, which instead consolidates the transgender subject as distressed and suffering. Through an unconventional use of psychoanalytic theories of perversion, I argue that...

... the importance of sex-reassignment surgery as a signifier of authentic gender variance, while at the same time asserting travesti subjectivity as unique and distinct from both transsexuality and transgender identity. The author concludes that the academic community needs to develop new methods of...

...J. Horncastle Abstract This article approaches transgender surgery from the “side door” and explores the consequences of happenstance surgery for the gender-nonnormative subject. In this happenstance context, the trans chest as a concept is problematic on two counts—being popularly understood only...

... stories of two transgender women, which are condensed from a series of interviews in clinical settings as well as in their homes. However, I do not claim that they are representative, nor do I mean to draw from them a coherent or totalizing narrative of Brazilian gender or transgender subjectivity. Rather...

...Shraddha Chatterjee Abstract A larger game is at play with respect to the field of transgender subjectivities in India that goes beyond gender or sexuality, and enters the arena of contested cultures and historical erasures. It can be hypothesized that a contemporary transgender subject in India...

... imaginary and symbolic dimensions of the phallus alongside a series of examples in which a subjective relation to the biological organ is particularly fraught, beginning with the case of David Reimer, a man who was raised a girl after losing his penis to a botched circumcision, and moving on to accounts...

... desires of De Lauretis's lesbian subjectivity via rereadings of Freud, Laplanche and Pontalis, and Bersani and Dutoit, this article claims that transessualità is a “practice of love” and an intersubjective knowledge that involves two interrelated material and libidinal practices: staging the “woman within...

...Simon van der Weele Abstract The notion of mourning without loss describes a situation in which a subject feels the urge to grieve for a loss he or she cannot claim as one's own. In the US TV series Transparent , such a loss emerges when Maura Pfefferman comes out to her children as a trans woman...

...K. K. Trieu Abstract When Kathy Acker writes about the body, it is frequently subjected to self-abnegation; there is a sense that the cohesion of self and body hangs on complete destruction and rebirth in terms of its material reality. The figure of the Pirate is an avatar through which Acker...

... privacy into consideration when determining how open a collection should be to users. This article also touches upon the limitations of the Library of Congress subject headings for the Smith Papers, acknowledging the challenges of applying these subject headings to describe an individual whose identity...

...Hillary Hiner; Juan Carlos Garrido; Brigette Walters Abstract This article analyzes the ways in which trans and travesti women experienced state terrorism during the Chilean military dictatorship (1973–90), a subject that has received little attention in memory and recent history studies in Chile...

... inclusivity for the subject of feminisms, considering those subjects left outside or energetically moved away from the neoliberal reconversion of the critical devices of the white heterosexual and institutional feminisms that we know today as gender politics or “women's politics,” managed and operated by the...

... are fundamentally transphobic, as well as its failure prompt pragmatic understanding and address of the maldistribution of life chances for trans, intersex, and gender-nonconforming subjects. I offer several alternative strategies aimed at producing more deeply transformative types of trans inclusion...

... “talking head” videos expand the tradition of the feminist consciousness-raising documentary to establish trans youth as experts and create a sense of intimacy between vloggers and viewers. Transition videos become spectacular by displaying the subject's body in ways that affirm their felt gender and...