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... introduces readers to Truck Sluts , an Instagram account that puts rural trucking culture at the center of a three-fold t4t exchange: trans-for-trans, trans-for-trucks, and a more expansive trans-for-trans* that crosses materialities. The author argues that Truck Sluts explicitly models these kinds...

..., and self-respect. Many identify with the cowboy ideal of trucking and with the truck itself to both fit into, and rebel against, the changing workforce dynamics of surveillance and technology. Ethnographic data suggest that sex is one form that rebellion takes. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press...

... study of Tiffany Saint-Bunny's photo project Truck Sluts , for example, turns on t4t (and t4t*) as “trouble” and techniques for staying with it. Reich reads Saint-Bunny's aesthetic practice as multiply t4t—simultaneously “a desirous exchange . . . between trans media makers and trans audiences...

... list of occupations: bootlegger, bartender, blackjack dealer, truck driver, longshoreman, shipyard steamfitter, and riveter. I was blessed with the opportunity in 2019 to work with the amazing writer-directors Stephen Kijak and Kimberly Reed to tell a little bit of Jack's previously untold story...

... and Surveillance on the Highway,” explores the world of self-styled “T-Girl” truck drivers working in the heart of global capitalism in the United States. Balay offers a vivid ethnographic account of T-Girls who imagine themselves as outlaws: gender outlaws who defy normative gender, sexual outlaws who seek...

... You could only go out in daylight as a travesti if you were femme passing—if not, the Faustão truck 18 appeared out of thin air and in you went, one by one. Destination: the police station. Or, if you were a minor, Febem, 19 with mom waiting outside to pick you up. I was almost too young...

... of a tow truck driver make Millie smile. This transaction, like her hair battle, inspires a reflection on her “transness,” but this time on its success. Victor Wong was invisible, but Millie Wong gets attention, even objectification. And even though the attention she receives might be conditioned...

..., this really nice guy, a real truck driver type, and we put him in drag right there in the room, right there in front of everybody. We totally transformed him. We showed everybody how we did the makeup, and turned him into looking like—well, probably, looking like his mother. He looked like this working-class...

... , no. 2 : 66 – 75 . McBee Thomas Page . 2012 . “ The Truck Stop .” Self-Made Man #1, Rumpus , February 21 . therumpus.net/2012/02/self-made-man-1-the-truckstop/ . McMillan Terry . 1992 . Waiting to Exhale . New York : Viking . Mock Janet . 2014a . “ Janet Mock...

... for Georgina, the titular Black Transvestite ( fig. 4 ). Where Dressing Up Bobby relies on shorthand tropes of white collegiate life to communicate the safety of the pedagogical space and the safety of equivocality, even as it extends to the truck stop at the edge of town, Black Transvestite leisurely...

... life more livable in and through difficult circumstances. It has no truck with cruel optimism, with the attachment to a toxic present because of a promised future that wears you down and out. It is cynical, skeptical; t4t is set up to fail, about aiming high and taking what one can get. It embraces...

... on their femininity while their family, neighbors, and school relentlessly attempt to force them to embody masculine norms, such as dress (they want Ludo to wear pants), mannerisms (they want Ludo to play rough sports), and object choices (they want Ludo to desire trucks and girls). Ludovic's supposed cross...

... remembers wondering at the time about her auntie's own suppressed trans feelings. Stargazing together in the back of a truck in Chilliwack a few years later, Sailor remarked to her with amazement, “You're okay.” As the first out queer person in their family, Sailor was terrified for Saylesh throughout her...