Sprawl is a word that describes zones of transition, often those that are untidy or irregular, not subject to a masterplan. It also names a kind of bodily comportment, a way of taking up space that is simultaneously awkward and luxurious, extravagant and ungainly. I think of the connections made in this dossier on Trans Care as sprawling in both of these senses, and surely more. Sometimes, they build between zones of inquiry that are as of yet quite underthought: between trans kin-making and climate disaster, for instance, or between public arts philanthropy and the racial politics of trans recognition. Other times, they pay attention to the sprawl, transformation, and zones of indiscernibility where trans care webs morph into other kinds of care webs: those concerned with disability justice, with the care hustles learned in the context of migrant survival, and with the care work involved in sustaining labor in informal economies, theorizing tenuous filaments of realized and potentially realizable solidarity. They think through the racial, gender, and sexual politics of suburban sprawl and cishetero domesticity. They theorize the (im)possibility of corporeal sprawl and bodily (dis)comfort, tracing the embodied nuances of trans inhabitations of many kinds of spaces: public, counterpublic, private, and semi-private. The dossier is beautiful, generous, and unpredictable in its sprawl, and a rich invitation to continue building in the gaps and spaces that feel more possible or habitable, to take up space while remaining mindful of the nuance and complexity that shapes what ideas and bodies are able to sprawl, and where, and what is overgrown and encroached upon in that process. Here, I weave one way through this sprawl.
{"title":"Sprawl: Emergent Forms of Thinking with Trans Care","authors":"Hilary Malatino","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Sprawl is a word that describes zones of transition, often those that are untidy or irregular, not subject to a masterplan. It also names a kind of bodily comportment, a way of taking up space that is simultaneously awkward and luxurious, extravagant and ungainly. I think of the connections made in this dossier on Trans Care as sprawling in both of these senses, and surely more. Sometimes, they build between zones of inquiry that are as of yet quite underthought: between trans kin-making and climate disaster, for instance, or between public arts philanthropy and the racial politics of trans recognition. Other times, they pay attention to the sprawl, transformation, and zones of indiscernibility where trans care webs morph into other kinds of care webs: those concerned with disability justice, with the care hustles learned in the context of migrant survival, and with the care work involved in sustaining labor in informal economies, theorizing tenuous filaments of realized and potentially realizable solidarity. They think through the racial, gender, and sexual politics of suburban sprawl and cishetero domesticity. They theorize the (im)possibility of corporeal sprawl and bodily (dis)comfort, tracing the embodied nuances of trans inhabitations of many kinds of spaces: public, counterpublic, private, and semi-private. The dossier is beautiful, generous, and unpredictable in its sprawl, and a rich invitation to continue building in the gaps and spaces that feel more possible or habitable, to take up space while remaining mindful of the nuance and complexity that shapes what ideas and bodies are able to sprawl, and where, and what is overgrown and encroached upon in that process. Here, I weave one way through this sprawl.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129384671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming to (Trans) Care: An Introduction","authors":"Jack Jen Gieseking, David A. Rubin","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115097660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Trans Arts of Cultivating Resilience\": Trans Care and Climate Emergency","authors":"Davy Knittle","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"242 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116242465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In this paper, I argue for theorizing ambivalent mourning as a queer affect and practice, opening up the possibility of sitting and reckoning with past and ongoing state-sanctioned violence, war, disorder, and mass deaths. To do so, I use a hybrid text—employing auto-ethnography and an analysis of three Lebanese films from three different junctures in Lebanese history. Each film represents a different genre: Hamasat (1980), a documentary by Maroun Baghdadi; Beirut Phantom (1998), a fiction narrative by Ghassan Salhab; and Bailey's Beads (2020), a short film by Georgio Nassif. A close reading of these films reveals that the characters conjure specters of war, violence, the dead, and the disappeared to mourn, yet they respond and dwell with them in ambivalence. Employing women of color feminisms, queer of color critique, and affect theory, I defend and welcome specters as potential companions and figures that allow some people to not mourn alone. Rather than rejecting or suppressing memories and experiences of violence and war, I argue that the invocations of ghosts and ambivalent mournings are queer acts that reshape how we think of normative affective registers in narratives of war, violence, disaster, and personal encounters with death.
{"title":"In Defense of Specters: Ambivalent Mourning as Queer Affect","authors":"Ghassan Moussawi","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0036","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this paper, I argue for theorizing ambivalent mourning as a queer affect and practice, opening up the possibility of sitting and reckoning with past and ongoing state-sanctioned violence, war, disorder, and mass deaths. To do so, I use a hybrid text—employing auto-ethnography and an analysis of three Lebanese films from three different junctures in Lebanese history. Each film represents a different genre: Hamasat (1980), a documentary by Maroun Baghdadi; Beirut Phantom (1998), a fiction narrative by Ghassan Salhab; and Bailey's Beads (2020), a short film by Georgio Nassif. A close reading of these films reveals that the characters conjure specters of war, violence, the dead, and the disappeared to mourn, yet they respond and dwell with them in ambivalence. Employing women of color feminisms, queer of color critique, and affect theory, I defend and welcome specters as potential companions and figures that allow some people to not mourn alone. Rather than rejecting or suppressing memories and experiences of violence and war, I argue that the invocations of ghosts and ambivalent mournings are queer acts that reshape how we think of normative affective registers in narratives of war, violence, disaster, and personal encounters with death.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125725339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aftercare & Catharsis: Cultivating the Trans Arts of Living","authors":"Elliott Fukui, Christoph Hanssmann","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122771499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism by Heather Berg (review)","authors":"Emerson Barrett","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130886957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Racialized Gender Dynamics through Hil Malatino's Trans Care","authors":"Andrea J. Pitts","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125174853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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