Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10273182
Penelope Haulotte
Trans theory is characterized in part by the apparent tension between discursive analyses of cisgender society and phenomenological descriptions of trans experiences. While traditional inquiry into the history of philosophy proposes an interminable opposition between phenomenology and discourse analysis, Henry Rubin's alternative suggestion is that within the domain of trans studies these methods are complementary. Discourse analysis and phenomenology converge in trans studies because they are submitted to the same ethical and political imperative: the systematic development of the trans archive. Both discourse analysis and phenomenology as methods in trans studies are directed toward the development of a genuinely trans history, perspective, and theory, with special methodological consideration of the way that this perspective is misunderstood or obscured by dominant frameworks within cisgender society. In what follows, the author provides a brief reconstruction of two major interventions in trans phenomenology, demonstrating that each is carefully concerned with distinctly archival considerations. The author further argues that each project remains unfinished because of an incomplete bracketing of medicalized cisgender concepts. The article then proposes a brief alternative program aimed at the full suspension of cisgender categories that the author calls transgender existentialism.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10273196
Alexander Peeples
Beginning to reconcile the meaning of the contradiction at the heart of trans historiography requires two methodological insights. The first is a qualified recommitment to trans studies' partial global turn with a fervently anticolonial edge that recognizes the basic coloniality of trans as category. The second is a practice of historical political economy that can situate contemporary transness within longue durée colonial histories of class formation, social relation, and capital accumulation. Taken in tandem, these approaches demonstrate the need for scholarship that denaturalizes the category of trans and reinterrogates its economic and scholarly value if trans studies is to find a future that addresses its much-critiqued Eurocentrism and whiteness.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10273252
P. Zurn
This article takes the twenty-five-year anniversary of C. Jacob Hale's “Suggested Rules for Non-transsexuals Writing about Transsexuals, Transsexuality, Transsexualism, and Trans___” (1997) to reflect on the nature of accountability to and within trans communities. Against the backdrop of interviews with Hale and his thought partners for the piece (e.g., Talia Bettcher, Jack Halberstam, and Naomi Scheman), Zurn draws out the historical context of the “Rules,” but also the affective, theoretical, and political frictions (and intimacies) that underlie them. Generated in the late 1990s scene of trans theory and activism, Hale's “Rules” were more than a corrective to cis-centric “positions” on trans people circulating at the time (esp. by Bernice Hausman); they were also a testament to friendship, as well as to the philosophical insights of María Lugones, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Sandy Stone. Although written for non-trans writers, it was Hale's intention that the “Rules” also apply in trans-trans contexts. Indeed, in a world today where trans people are in fact leading trans studies, Hale's injunctions to humility in our approach to trans* peoples and to faith in the existing wisdom of trans life is prescient. So is his invitation to theorize on the rough ground of living and struggling together.
本文以C. Jacob Hale的《关于变性人、变性人、易性癖和跨性别写作的非变性人建议规则》(1997)发表25周年为契机，反思对跨性别群体和跨性别群体的责任本质。在采访黑尔和他的思想伙伴(如塔利亚·贝彻、杰克·哈伯斯坦和娜奥米·Scheman)的背景下，泽恩勾勒出了“规则”的历史背景，以及它们背后的情感、理论和政治摩擦(和亲密关系)。黑尔的“规则”产生于20世纪90年代后期的跨性别理论和行动主义，它不仅仅是对当时流传的以顺式为中心的跨性别者“立场”的纠正(尤其是伯尼斯·豪斯曼的观点);它们也是友谊的证明，也是María卢戈内斯、路德维希·维特根斯坦和桑迪·斯通的哲学见解的证明。虽然《规则》是为非跨性别作家写的，但黑尔的意图是让《规则》也适用于跨性别语境。的确，在当今世界，跨性别者实际上是跨性别研究的领导者，黑尔告诫我们在对待跨性别者时要保持谦逊，并对现有的跨性别生活智慧抱有信心，这是有先见之明的。因此，他邀请人们在共同生活和奋斗的粗糙基础上进行理论化。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10273238
Liz Rose
In their poem “I, Monster Mine” (“Yo monstruo mío”) Argentine activist and self-proclaimed trans* sudaca artist Susy Shock demands the right to be “whatever my pinche desire fucking feels like.” By centering desire, Shock's poem echoes contemporary feminist theorizing in Argentina and calls into question the construction of normative human subjects via the semantic claim to the word monster, yet evades recourse to global North theories of trans* subjectivity.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10273140
Victor Ultra Omni
This short essay springs from the question, Why has trans studies sustained a silence around Black elders in general, and Black femme queens in particular? The author reflects on the interventions of current scholars in Black trans studies and their import to the historicization of the house/ball culture or house-structured ballroom scene. Through a Black feminist imperative, this essay calls on trans studies to refuse the necropolitical logics that assume all the progenitors of the ballroom scene have died. In revisiting the rich cultural archive of the house-structured ballroom scene, such as the 1982 film T.V. Transvestite, this article reminds the reader that Black trans studies remains an archeological project.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10273266
Emma B. Mincks
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10273224
Kadji Amin
In the face of incisive and important critiques by Andrea Long Chu, Emmett Harsin Drager, Che Gossett, and Eva Hayward, this article proposes that trans studies is a field at a crossroads. It can slide further into irrelevance by continuing to promote trans- as an abstract prefix of crossing, or it can become relevant to trans people by focusing on the material heterogeneity of trans populations, histories, and epistemologies. The article sketches out some of the rich and exciting directions the latter inquiry could take. With reference to particularly generative proposals by graduate students in this issue, it argues that trans and gender-variant life is a more than sufficient basis for the field.
面对Andrea Long Chu、Emmett Harsin Drager、Che Gossett和Eva Hayward的尖锐而重要的批评，本文提出跨性别研究是一个处于十字路口的领域。它可以通过继续推动trans-作为一个抽象的前缀而进一步变得无关紧要，或者通过关注跨性别人群、历史和认识论的物质异质性，它可以变得与跨性别者相关。这篇文章概述了后一项研究可能采取的一些丰富而令人兴奋的方向。在这一问题上，关于研究生特别富有创造性的建议，它认为跨性别和性别变异的生活是该领域的充分基础。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10273168
Tatiana Avesani
Abstract This contribution takes a look at diphthongs, which the author calls an oddly trans problem of language. Borrowed from their linguistic function, diphthongs may point to a trans methodology. On a page, diphthongs seem to be the crystallized image of a transition. Yet, as elements of a sentence or a word, they are not necessarily read as a unit. Depending on the context and the function that they serve at the moment they appear, diphthongs take on many different forms. This piece considers the ways in which a diphthong may be viewed as a metaphor for multiplicity within a single body and the implications it may have in the future of trans studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10273126
Shivaang Sharma
In this short essay, the author calls for a provincialization of trans studies by rethinking the framework of the liberal humanist ontological self as the given basis for understanding trans experience. Briefly describing the neglect of non-Western epistemologies and practices in canonical trans studies in the United States, the author argues that turning our attention to these modes of selfhood, identity, and embodiment, such as conceived within hijra cultures in India, would be useful in lending productive directions for future work within the field. The author suggests that this work should be undertaken not with the sole purpose of expanding the geographic contours of the field, but in the spirit of destabilizing and de-essentializing what the signifier trans itself represents.
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