Recent antitrans discourses have critiqued trans masculinity in particular as a site of social panic and contagion for proto-trans adolescents. In extreme cases, this is framed as a seduction. Turning “seduction” from a social danger to a benefit, this essay theorizes masc4masc t4t erotics as a type of contagious gendering. The authors discuss the coming…
This essay contemplates an enduring form of reasoning it titles “egg theory”: the type of reasoning that trans people use, prior to transition, to prove transition’s impossibility or fruit- lessness. It follows this reasoning in a critical and ironic framing in the work of the novelist and critic Sybil Lamb and then, in a less…
“Philadelphia steelworker tells intimate story of how he was reared by Georgia Black, the man who lived as a woman for 30 years in Florida.” Describes Willie Sabb’s mother, Georgia Black, a trans woman featured in Black on Both Sides (Snorton) and Before Gender (Erlick). This PDF is the full issue. The article is featured…
A study of the work and career of psychoanalyst and researcher Robert J Stoller, an early and brilliant observer of the dynamics of gender identity (a term he invented) and sexual dynamics and perversion.
Trans Homo…Gasp! offers an honest, tender, sexy and rare look into the hearts and minds of gay and queer trans men and their trans/cis male lovers. Authors share hot, vulnerable and intimate moments from steamy explorations on gay male hook up apps to profound and transformative insights about identity, partnership and belongingness in gay male…
This book is a collection of short story writing and critical essays that explore a range of themes, including experiences of being a trans woman of color, navigating oppressive structures, and the questions of what is trans literature and how we should talk about one another’s work. The short story portion of the book includes…
this paper should be cited as: Serano, J. (2009, June 12). Psychology, Sexualization and Trans-Invalidations. Keynote lecture presented at the 8th Annual Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference. Retrieved from http://www.juliaserano.com/av/Serano-TransInvalidations.pdf . author’s note: This paper was presented as a keynote lecture for the 8th Annual Philadelphia Trans Health Conference. I was inspired to write it after, on…
While transgender and non-binary identities are increasingly visible, too many Christians have either maintained a fearful silence, or have attacked ‘transgenderism’ as a threat to Christian faith and practice. More serious theological reflection is needed, not least of all in the Roman Catholic tradition. Moreover, the Catholic context presents particular challenges that are relevant beyond…
Abstract Preview of the text: Coming of age as a bisexual Latina femme in the 1980s, I was surrounded by lesbian-feminist communities and discourses that disparaged, dismissed, and vilified bisexuality. Those of us that enthusiastically embraced femininity or that actively sought out masculine presenting butches, were deemed perpetually suspect. Femmes were imagined as being always…
German-Jewish physician, sexologist and critical race theorist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) was arguably one of the most significant sexual thinkers of the twentieth century and a renowned sexual minority rights advocate. Hirschfeld’s sexual- emancipatory engagement has been widely acknowledged. But his groundbreaking universalization of sexual intermediariness and the resulting dissolution of binary, triadic or otherwise finite…