Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10273154
Sooyoung Kim
Yangssaekshi (Western bride), Yanggongju (Western princess), and Yangggalbo (Western whore), also translated as “Camptown sex worker,” are the terms for South Korean women who provided sexual and service labor to the US soldiers during and after the Korean War. Yet buried here is a trans sex worker's history. What did it take for the contemporary South Korean trans community and trans studies globally to become detached from Camptown sex workers' knowledge and sociality? How has a certain universalized understanding of transness in trans studies alienated scholarship from Camptown sex workers' knowledge and blocked us South Koreans from positioning ourselves in the conventional trans genealogy? How has our omission preconditioned trans studies? Guided by decolonial trans scholarship, this essay thinks of the temporal narrativization of trans discourse, one that includes critical trans studies, that has formulated its own discursive territory through trans as a geopolitical marker of modernity.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10273210
Jo Aurelio Giardini
Abstract Thirty years have passed since Leslie Feinberg published hir pamphlet Transgender Liberation, a “Marxist view of when and why transgender oppression arose.” Since then, considerations of trans studies in relationship to the critique of political economy have developed unevenly, but a variety of recent scholarship enables routes for interrogating processes of gendering in relationship to labor, global economic development, and routinized immiseration. This short article surveys some of this work in order to mark how it might orient future trans scholarship. A renewed attention to Marxist critique can provide tools for charting the flourishing of trans life and the forces that work to dispossess it.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10133845
Chelsea Thompto
Through an examination of how the art world engages with transness, the piece begins with an exploration of why we need an understanding of trans subjectivity that is not beholden to or subsumed by the art world's overriding attention and interest in queer subjectivities and concerns. The author then describes how trans methodologies are applied within their artistic and curatorial practice and how those methodologies are situated within the broader context of the art world. Particular focus is given to codes as both the subject (social, governmental, and technical codes) and medium (visual and computer codes) of the author's work.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10133803
M. Gonsalez
This article analyzes a RuPaul's Drag Race contestant, Valentina, and the ways her trans/queer of color and Latinx performance strategies obfuscate neoliberal, colonial-capitalist logics. Drawing on trans of color theory, television studies, and Latinx studies, this article argues that Valentina's queer nonbinary racialized televisual persona—which includes, for instance, her iconic lip-synch, mask-wearing faux pas, or campy telenovela moments—enacts aesthetic and performative tactics that defy demands for capitalist productivity, minoritized respectability and professionalism, and racial uplift. The article examines how a trans/queer Mexican American drag queen like Valentina, herself a televisual spectacle, defies discourses structured around debating good versus bad representation, a binary that hamstrings much of the scholarship on Latinx people on television by remixing Latinx stereotypes such as the Latina spitfire with trans/queer possibilities. This torquing of stereotypes centers trans/queer racialized Latinx joy, pleasure, and humor, activating worlds hospitable to trans/queer of color living and thriving.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10133775
J. Sánchez Cruz
This article positions Teresa Margolles's Ya basta hijos de puta (2018) as a refusal of trans* disappearance created by capitalistic initiatives of renovation, by the failures of the Mexican state, and by transphobic violence. Through the triangulation of three objects, a stone, a legal document, and a sound recording, intertwined with seventeen photographs of trans* people in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the article also proposes that Margolles's recent aesthetic shift engages transness to open up a coalitional travesti-trans* studies between the North and South. A hemispheric conversation in which praxis and theory meet and where Ya basta hijos de puta as praxis demands on feeling destruction through the “touching” of the stone, on seeing the legal foreclosures through a death certificate, and on hearing of disappearance through the recording, the sound of the afterlife of transness.
本文将Teresa Margolles的《Ya basta hijos de puta》(2018)定位为对由资本主义革新倡议、墨西哥国家的失败和变性暴力造成的变性人消失的拒绝。通过对三件物品(一块石头、一份法律文件和一段录音)的三角测量，以及17张墨西哥城Juárez中变性人的照片交织在一起，文章还提出，马戈勒斯最近的审美转变涉及变性，从而在南北之间开辟了一个联合的跨性别研究。在这个半球的对话中，实践和理论相遇，而“Ya basta hijos de puta”作为实践，要求人们通过“触摸”石头来感受毁灭，通过死亡证明来看到法律上的丧失抵押品赎回权，通过录音来听到失踪，听到变性人死后的声音。
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10133831
J. Smilges
This essay makes the case for neurotrans, which names the nexus of neurodivergence and trans as an epistemic source, a place from which neurotrans people think neurotrans thoughts to pursue a neurotrans world. Bringing the interwoven histories of mental disability and trans experience to bear on HIV/AIDS, the author argues that HIV has long served as a racialized weapon of the state to subjugate neurodivergent and gender variant people, especially those of color. The AIDS crisis, following the rise of antipsychotics in psychiatry, offered the medical industrial complex and the criminal punishment system a new opportunity to surveil and control disabled and trans populations. In addition to racializing gender variance and neurodivergence as threats to white supremacy, the state could now use HIV to justify incarcerating neurotrans people, although carceral spaces, such as hospitals, mental institutions, and prisons, are largely responsible for facilitating HIV transmission. Drawing on the life and activism of Black mad and trans activist Marsha P. Johnson, this essay illuminates the entanglement of mental disability and gender nonconformance and the necessity to center mental disability in trans studies, prioritize neurodivergent people in HIV prevention efforts, and advocate for the participation and leadership of neurotrans people in AIDS activism.
这篇文章提出了神经反式的案例，它将神经分化和反式的联系命名为认知来源，神经反式的人从这里思考神经反式的思想，以追求一个神经反式的世界。作者将精神残疾和跨性别经历的交织历史与艾滋病毒/艾滋病联系起来，认为艾滋病毒长期以来一直是国家的种族化武器，用来征服神经分化和性别变异的人，特别是有色人种。随着精神病学中抗精神病药物的兴起，艾滋病危机为医疗工业联合体和刑事惩罚系统提供了一个监视和控制残疾人和变性人的新机会。除了将性别差异和神经分化视为对白人至上主义的威胁之外，国家现在还可以利用艾滋病毒来证明监禁神经变性人的合理性，尽管医院、精神病院和监狱等收容场所在很大程度上助长了艾滋病毒的传播。本文以黑人疯子和跨性别活动家玛莎·p·约翰逊(Marsha P. Johnson)的生活和行动为例，阐述了精神残疾和性别不一致的纠缠，以及在跨性别研究中关注精神残疾的必要性，在艾滋病预防工作中优先考虑神经分化者，并倡导神经变性者参与和领导艾滋病行动。
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10133817
Kathryn J. Perkins, Grant Harting, Evelyn Ortiz Soto
How does the law determine gender and transgender for the purposes of admission to gender-segregated spaces? This article examines this question to understand how transgender identity is legally constructed in gender-segregated spaces. Using trans feminist legal theory, this article explores how the state conceptualizes and re/incorporates transness in a binary gender order. Through case studies of access to gender transition in gender-segregated educational and carceral spaces, the authors find that judges engage in gender naturalization work to legally construct transgender identity in ways that reinforce sexist conceptualizations of immutable and binary gender. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of this narrow construction of transgender identity for a trans feminist jurisprudence and politics.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-10133789
Allison McGuffie
Narrative cinema holds the unique potential to absorb audiences in the sensory world of its characters. When mobilized in the service of depicting trans* experience, the specificity of the medium can generate deep empathy for trans* lives, an important ethical objective, especially in a society in which trans* lives are under attack. Through close formal analysis, this article shows how the 1997 film Ma vie en rose accomplishes this project by cinematically aligning film spectators with a transgender child's audiovisual perception. Ma vie en rose immerses the film spectator in Ludovic's fantasy world where they are completely accepted as they are, inspiring the spectator to become personally invested in Ludovic's well-being, and potentially contributing to a real-world social environment that fosters livable lives for gender-nonconforming children.
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