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“There Is Nothing Missing in the Real”: Trans Childhood and the Phantasmatic Body
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 431–450.
Published: 01 November 2017
... as phantom, and the trans child's phantasmatic body in particular, the analysis puts Freudian and Lacanian understandings of the penis/phallus into conversation with biographical narratives of trans childhood. Thus, it argues that both trans-affirmative and transphobic narratives that temporally position...
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Girl Talk and Hold Music: Applied Theatre for Feminine Boys and Trans Girls
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 527–543.
Published: 01 November 2023
... are better supported in the music, conversation, and dance of what the author calls “girlfriend performance.” Against the violence of adult-authored accounts of trans feminine childhood, this article argues that children's friends should tell the story of trans feminine childhood instead. The author examines...
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Chasing Papi: A Study in Virulence and Virtuality
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TSQ (2021) 8 (1): 4–23.
Published: 01 February 2021
... and archiving. The result is a life support system reviving dormant erotic networks and complex familial relations central to his reclusive late father, Peter. By chasing Papi, Rodriguez empowers an archival art strategy to visually reconcile a trans-of-color childhood and patrilineal relations with a virus...
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“Waking to Dream”: The Life Stories of Saylesh Wesley, Trans Stó:lō Elder-to-Be
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 265–300.
Published: 01 November 2023
... through regular coming-of-age milestones. 18 Speaking to the paradoxical nature of trans childhood, Saylesh reflects, “You grow up faster, but at the same time, you're also stunted.” 19 Instead of being able to explore and express who she was through traditional means of dating, having her first...
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Intersex Surgery between the Gaze and the Subject
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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 160–171.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Iain Morland Abstract This essay critiques the practice of childhood genital surgery for intersex/disorders of sex development. The essay draws on the sociology of perception and poststructuralist theory (in particular Jacques Lacan) to analyze the subject position offered by surgery as a function...
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Turning toward Pedagogy in a Crisis
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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 670–673.
Published: 01 November 2020
...—precludes us from seeing ourselves as part of a collective, a belongingness forged out of enduring and surviving. This is a critical loss, this thwarted belongingness. They survived COVID-19. They survived HIV. They survived a trans childhood. What happens when we are convinced that something...
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Beyond Autopoiesis: Liminal Sciences and Trans Historiography
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 369–387.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that there were multiple trans childhoods in play in this era, that the definition of transness characterizing children takes a range of differing and competing forms, without any discursive resolution. While this may feel like shaky ground to stand on historiographically or even a dilution of the meaning...
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Bad Dads and Precarious Grads: On the “Trans ± Sex: Rethinking Sex/Gender in Trans Studies” Symposium
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 455–462.
Published: 01 August 2020
... dialogued more directly on these points—especially considering that, as Gayle Salamon (Princeton University) later reminded us, Gill-Peterson's recent book Histories of the Transgender Child ( 2018 ) argues against the idea of trans childhood as a new phenomenon. But in any case, as Reed's manifesto...
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Falling into Pam's World: Transgender Fantasy, Cinematic Pleasure, and Ethical Empathy in Ma vie en rose
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TSQ (2022) 9 (4): 563–586.
Published: 01 November 2022
...: to a certain trans* audience, Ludovic's experience may feel familiar, perhaps affirming, in some small way, their own childhood struggles in a binary world. Trans* viewers of color or those who grew up with less class privilege than the Fabres may be better positioned to read the implicit whiteness of the film...
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Nothing Until It Is Made Actual; or, Acker versus Growing Up
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 489–498.
Published: 01 August 2020
... a reading of Acker's novel In Memoriam to Identity , in particular its interest in Rimbaud as both biographical icon and literary precedent. The essay then argues that Acker's concerted literary attack on an ideology of maturity relates to the projects of trans literature at several critical junctures...
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Adolescence
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 22–24.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of the nation-state. One of the ways in which biopower regulates and disciplines trans phenomena is by locating them in the presumably pliable stage of adolescence, where state intervention appears to be developmentally natural and necessary. In the mid-nineteenth century, both childhood and adolescence became...
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The Vulnerable Child Protection Act and Transgender Children's Health
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 508–516.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., and Rejuvenation in Man into Woman: A Biopolitical Genealogy of Transsexuality .” TSQ 5 , no. 4 : 589 – 605 . Cárdenas Micha . 2016 . “ Pregnancy: Reproductive Futures in Trans of Color Feminism .” TSQ 3 , nos. 1–2 : 48 – 57 . Castañeda Claudia . 2014 . “ Childhood .” TSQ 1 , nos...
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Early Modern Transgender Fairies
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TSQ (2021) 8 (1): 75–95.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., the popular supernatural potential for gender instability shifted. I begin with beginnings: with childhood. Transgender children are excluded from their own histories. Gatekeepers claim they “have no history at all. Trans children are unprecedented and must be treated as such, with caution or awe” (Gill...
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Transpsychoanalytics
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 326–357.
Published: 01 November 2017
... truthfully. Jacob Breslow's article, “‘There Is Nothing Missing in the Real’: Trans Childhood and the Phantasmatic Body,” begins with a case analysis of a Colorado elementary school administrator's decision to bar Coy Mathis, a six-year-old trans* girl, from using the “girl's” bathroom. While there has...
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The Absent Archive: The Transgender Body in Jaime Cortez's Sexile
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TSQ (2021) 8 (1): 121–131.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of comics and graphic novels that reflect on the AIDS crisis and the experiences of those who lived and died during that time, the experiences of transgender people, and especially trans people of color, are largely missing from this graphic archive. The comics and graphic novels that discuss the AIDS...
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For a Queer Pedagogy of Friendship
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 352–367.
Published: 01 August 2014
... value in this choice; it stresses Italo's transness and my belief that there is no past that lasts forever. Another difficulty related to naming is to recognize that the attempts to define Italo's identity are destined to fail. Nevertheless, I use here several names to refer to her: travesti , trans...
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Child
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 57–59.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 What is a transgender child? These days, it depends on whom you ask. A relatively new social form, we see no references to transgender children prior to the mid-1990s. Previously...
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Childhood
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 59–61.
Published: 01 May 2014
... fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 In many societies, the child is constituted as a body that is always in the process of becoming, moving from birth to maturation, from infancy to adulthood...
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Intersex
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 111–115.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Sometimes individuals are born with genital, genetic, or hormonal characteristics that some people find confusing. From this phenomenon of “intersex,” a range of claims...
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Pauli Murray's Peter Panic: Perspectives from the Margins of Gender and Race in Jim Crow America
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 95–103.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Simon D. Elin Fisher Abstract This article investigates the history of intersectional feminism and demonstrates that the theory is grounded in a trans-of-color analysis of the racial caste system known as “Jim Crow.” In 1944, Pauli Murray, an African American activist, journalist, and lawyer...
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