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Transphobia as Symptom: Fear of the “Unwoman”
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 358–383.
Published: 01 November 2017
... is to investigate the meaning and function of transphobia in Jeffreys's text through employing the psychoanalytic method of a symptomatic reading. This psychoanalytic reading enables the authors to pose the following questions: What motivates the fear of transwomen that permeates this radical lesbian feminist...
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Transphobia
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 249–251.
Published: 01 May 2014
... fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 That transphobia exists is uncontroversial. Almost any trans person can attest to the existence of it based on personal experiences or the experiences...
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An Affinity of Hammers
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 22–34.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Sara Ahmed Abstract This article offers a critique of the claim made by trans-exclusionary radical feminists that transphobia is being misused as a way of silencing or censoring critical feminist speech. The article suggests that transphobia works as a rebuttal system, one that, in demanding trans...
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GID as an Acceptable Minority; or, The Alliance between Moral Conservatives and “Gender Critical” Feminists in Japan
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 501–506.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Hidenobu Yamada Abstract This essay articulates how feminist, queer, and trans politics in the early aughts have become a precondition for the rise of feminist transphobia in Japan now. On the one hand, mainstream feminists in that period overlooked transphobia in the gender backlash from moral...
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Empire and Eugenics: Trans Studies in the United Kingdom
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 445–454.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Ezra Horbury; Christine “Xine” Yao Abstract This essay offers an overview of trans studies in the United Kingdom in the current climate of transphobia in both academia and the public sphere. This report outlines how trans-exclusionary radical feminist scholars have co-opted the language...
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J. K. Rowling and the Echo Chamber of Secrets
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 507–516.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Gina Gwenffrewi Abstract This autoethnographic article attempts to capture the distress of a trans woman in Scotland at the transphobia in the legacy media's coverage of the J. K. Rowling furore in June 2020. Through the use of a frame narrative, the article analyses some of the transphobic...
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Unthinkable Anxieties: Reading Transphobic Countertransferences in a Century of Psychoanalytic Writing
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 384–404.
Published: 01 November 2017
... analysts working with transgender patients. The author concludes that a relational psychoanalytic approach, with a focus on mentalization, can be a compassionate and transformative one for working with many trans patients. References Bettcher Talia Mae . 2014 . “ Transphobia .” TSQ 1 , nos...
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The Failure of Cis Feminism: Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism in Academia
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 508–526.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., this article argues that cis feminism has for now failed to address the transphobia in its midst, thus forcing trans students and scholars to lose faith in feminism and to find care and support elsewhere. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 TERF transphobia...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (2): 238–256.
Published: 01 May 2021
... incidents in the UK are backed up by this legal discourse that sees the failure to reveal one's gender history to sexual partners as always already sexual violence. 9. See, for example, Koyama's ( 2006 ) and Stone's ( 1987 ) critique of feminist transphobia in the United States. 8. Yenor gets...
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Strange Tensions: Legacies of the Colonial Racial History of Trans Identities and Intersex Subjectivities
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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 199–210.
Published: 01 May 2022
... experiences of trans and intersex spaces where, instead of solidarity, tensions over transphobia and categorical conflation were evident. Further, it is notable that these tensions took place in predominately white spaces where antiracism was not prioritized. In many ways my first experiences in trans...
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Sympathy, Fear, Hate: Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism and Evangelical Christianity
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 425–442.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., in the documents referenced in this essay, cisgender women and evangelicals, not transgender people, are consistently portrayed as sympathetic, endangered, vulnerable, and subject to injury. The resilience of this transphobic position signals that transphobia is not merely a conceptual error but also a form...
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Choosing Threat, Embodying the Viral: Trans* Endemics in Times of Pandemic
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 480–487.
Published: 01 August 2022
... 2020 ). 2 In this atmosphere—the pandemic, on the one hand, and the increase in the official writing of transphobia into state and public policy, on the other—we see a consolidation of trans*-exclusive feminist, or TERF, discourse expressing themselves through the tropology of viral and toxic...
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The Emergence of Transfeminism in Russia: Opposition from Cisnormative Feminists and Trans* People
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 165–174.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Yana Kirey-Sitnikova Abstract Trans* issues became visible in Russian feminist communities only in 2013. In Russia, transfeminism was not a reaction against the explicit exclusion of trans* people from feminist spaces; on the contrary, transphobia in feminism arose after an attempt to introduce...
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Transfeminist Latinx America
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 301–306.
Published: 01 November 2023
... workers to ply their trade amid the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, and organizing “cuir” brigades to towns heavily impacted by the passing of Hurricane Fiona in September of 2022. In their collective responses to the compounding effects of heterosexism, transphobia, environmental racism, the coronavirus...
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Birth of Transfeminism in Brazil: Between Alliances and Backlashes
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 146–149.
Published: 01 May 2016
... wished to create our own transfeminism, one that could encompass the reality of the travestis —a category that does not exist in the United States—as we were aware of how the socioeconomic and racial issues that affect travestis intersect with the transphobia that also affects them. While we faced...
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Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Theory as Tools to Increase Trans* Visibility
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 647–653.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Marco Posadas Abstract The following statement engages with the question, how can psychoanalytic discourse be relevant to transgender studies when it lacks trans representation? A Latinx psychoanalyst discusses his journey with transphobia and institutional psychoanalysis. Copyright © 2017...
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Pulpit of Performative Reason
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 443–459.
Published: 01 August 2022
... people who, by his appraisal, bravely stand against the woke mob. Included among those he defends are Kathleen Stock, the philosophy professor who resigned from a UK university amid accusations of transphobia, whom Dawkins refers to as “a brave hero of reason,” and nineteenth-century evolutionary...
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Is “Gender Ideology” Western Colonialism?: Anti-gender Rhetoric and the Misappropriation of Postcolonial Language
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 365–386.
Published: 01 August 2022
... thought is more vital than ever if we are to counter current anti-gender movements, their Islamophobia, and their transphobia. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 anti-gender movements postcolonial theory racialized plasticity heteronationalism Europe...
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Lacanian Anxieties: Trans Surgeries, Countertransference, and the Fantasy of the Whole
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TSQ (2024) 11 (3): 458–480.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Matthew Lovett Abstract This essay argues that Lacanian psychoanalysis and trans studies can indeed accommodate each other rather than appear incommensurable. It first acknowledges the problem of Lacanian transphobia via the recent work of Slavoj Žižek and Jacques-Alain Miller, and organizes...
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Against Conservation of the Norm: Regenerative Trans Ecologies in the Interregnum
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TSQ (2024) 11 (4): 599–617.
Published: 01 November 2024
... characters inherit a postapocalyptic world brought about by imperialism, environmental degradation, and queer‐ and transphobia. Lastly, Francesca Lia Block's young adult novel Love in the Time of Global Warming (2013) follows a band of queer and trans teens as they navigate a dystopian wasteland...
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