... that in the Lacanian formulation comes through the Name-of-the-Father, is contingent on the recognition of sexual difference. The idea is that each sex lacks but lacks in a different way. Since the trans person does not realize that the other sex lacks, it construes the other sex as whole. To refer to the above...

.... It highlights the need for self-directed decolonial strategies and the exploration of trans lineages as a means of finding wholeness and connection in the face of intersecting challenges of violence against trans people of color and the environment. Drawing inspiration from the historical role of babaylans...

... the whole of humanity. This review expands and creates an entry point for interreligious dialogue with African diasporic religions, by acknowledging humanity as a part of the interconnected balance of nature and recognizing the influence the Babylonian creation story, Enuma Elish , had on the the deep...

..., and heterosexuality, questioning the notion of a sexual binary and the necessary entanglement of sex and gender threatens—or promises—to unravel this whole fabric. Every node in the complex interconnections posited by Genesis is based on a binary: male/female, masculine/feminine, male/masculine over female/feminine...

...Jack Halberstam Abstract Is trans studies over? Some scholars claim it was over before it began, swallowed whole by queer studies. Rather than doubling down on a small territorial struggle, this essay tries to make sense of the appeal of such claims on the one hand and the futility of them...

... spend all that time getting ready, who would then want to go on a battlefield and sweat? There was this whole thing about how we were going to break down the savagery of the human race because we were opening up a whole new area of male identity. It was kind of naive and idealistic when I look back...

..., and no doubt miraculous future. As a polymorphic insect whose final form is forged through total metamorphosis, the butterfly is a popular symbol for many trans and Two-Spirit people's journeys to self-realization. Or, in Saylesh's words, our paths to “wholeness.” 7 It came as no surprise...

... of their genitals they feel to have traumatically lost. For them, circumcision is often thought of as a kind of medical castration, and the various skin-tugging techniques and implements they discuss on Internet forums represent the promise of a return to natural phallic wholeness ( Kennedy 2015 ). David's story...

... Rundgren. I worked with Ultraviolet. I can go on. Stryker: It seems like a bit of a jump, Jimi Hendrix to Olivia. How did that happen? Stone: Let me give you more context here. Gary wanted to start a whole other subsidiary company. They wanted me to do that, but it meant not doing the music. I...

... viewing in support of environmental causes, particularly the health of the at-risk pollinators on whom so much of our food supply depends. Pornhub's Beesexual channel is devoted to “a whole new genre of porn especially dedicated to saving bees,” which turns “short videos of foraging bees into what...

... of antinormativity in queer studies. While urban renewal is not new across the world, Kunming (and perhaps China as a whole) distinguishes itself with its palpable sense of urgency. As was observed by anthropologist Li Zhang ( 2010 : 47), Kunming's urban redevelopment is characterized by a sense of “double...

... by strangers? Yes! Family members? That too! Discriminated at school? Of course! Arrested for no reasons? Are you kidding me? Totally! I talked about my pain nonstop for the whole year my asylum process took, to the point where I thought, why am I here if all I know is misery and disdain...

... wrong body and right body, or between fragmentation and wholeness.” Rejecting a binary between fragmentation and wholeness refuses the dewatered, fragmented river that holds no salmon and leaves some irrigators without irrigation water in dry years. What concepts of transgender embodiment can bring...

... to be. This work will find its place not only within the recent renaissance of trans women's literature but, I believe, within the canon of American literature as a whole. Aoki is a master of words. He Mele A Hilo follows the lives of a small community in Hilo, Hawaii. The large ensemble includes Hilo...

... within the sociology of science. Bodies, not just the emotions they feel, are also key to Underflows . Wölfle Hazard thinks with Eva Hayward to “reject a binary between fragmentation and wholeness” and imagine a “trans river embodiment” or a “watershed body” more broadly. Trans studies perspectives...

... ). The Brown Boi Project . 2012 “ Toward Healthy and Whole: Rethinking Gender and Transformation for Bois of Color .” October . www.brownboiproject.org/BBP%20Toward%20Healthy%20and%20Whole.pdf . Shepard Samuel . 2011 . “ Masculine Norms, School Attitudes, and Psychosocial Adjustment among Gifted...

.... This is to say, if revolution is a “certain moment of trans formation . . . a moment of irreversibility in a process” (259), then the whole range of travesti -trans interventions being made across las Américas that teem with creativity, refusal, and vitality in the face of precarity are anything but utopian...

..., which felt irritating; like, “oh haha, you caught me.” As if I was doing something bad or wrong, you know? I've been very vocal about selfie shaming. A selfie, for me, sometimes, is the only time in the world that I feel beautiful. There's a whole Wikipedia page about selfies, and selfie deaths...

... . Boston : Beacon . Greer G. 1999 . The Whole Woman . London : Random House . Hines S. 2005 . “ ‘I Am a Feminist but…’: Transgender Men, Women, and Feminism .” In Different Wavelengths: Studies of the Contemporary Women's Movement , ed. Reger J. , 57 – 78 . New York...

... pleasure of a man parading his pretty girlfriend as arm candy, showing off the proverbial trophy wife, or driving a red convertible sports car) or it might extend to the whole body. How does this happen? Only because the phallus functions as an exchange ratio; as a signifier it can be ascribed with various...