Category: Art

Art Humanities Nonfiction Other Social Sciences Theory

Intersectional Interventions into Queer and Trans Liberation: Youth Resistance Against Right-Wing Populism Through Fashion Hacking

By tr | by tr

Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, recently elected a socially conservative Premier who repealed the progressive sexual education curriculum that teaches about queer and trans relationships and bodies. This election occurs within the broader context of neoliberal capitalism and settler homonationalism that oppresses the most vulnerable queer and trans citizens. The paper examines how queer and…

Art Essay Humanities Nonfiction Photography

To Survive on This Shore: Selections From the South

By tr | by tr

Here, we share portraits and interview excerpts with participants from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington D.C., to highlight the ways in which transgender people are aging in the South. Our participants’ experiences reflect the complex intersections of gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic status, and geographic place. Their…

Anthology Archive Art Critique History Humanities Photography Social Sciences Theory

LGBTQ Digital Cultures A Global Perspective

By tr | by tr

Emphasizing an intersectional and transnational approach, this collection examines how social media and digital technologies have impacted the sphere of LGBTQ activism, advocacy, education, empowerment, identity, protest, and self-expression. This edited collection adopts a critical and cultural studies perspective to examine queer cyberculture and presence. Through the lens of representation and identity politics, it explores…

Art Humanities Nonfiction

Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Artivism

By tr | by tr

This book explores the work and careers of women, trans, and third-gender artists engaged in political activism. While some artists negotiated their own political status in their indigenous communities, others responded to global issues of military dictatorship, racial discrimination, or masculine privilege in regions other than their own. Women, trans, and third-gender artists continue to…

Art Classics Nonfiction Photography

Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits

By tr | by tr

Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits is a unique and extraordinary photographic collection by artist Loren Cameron. Body Alchemy is Loren Cameron’s intensely personal photo documentary of female-to-male transsexuals (FTMs). A transsexual himself, Cameron brings a sensitive, sophisticated insider’s eye to his subject matter. Using documentary style, a series of before-and-after photographs documenting the transformation of a…

Anthology Archive Art Critique Essay Nonfiction Poetry

Camp Trans

By tr | by tr

An anthology of poetry and essays created by trans folks supporting and partaking in Camp Trans, an event created out of protest of the trans-exclusionary “womyn-born-womyn” Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. This 2001 iteration of Camp Trans continues a tradition started in the ’90s, as a part-protest-part-celebration for trans liberation and against the TERF groups which…

Art Critique Essay Humanities Nonfiction Other Poetry Short Story Social Sciences Theory Uncategorized

Unlearning Cisheteronormativity at the Intersections of Difference: Performing Queer Worldmaking through Collaged Relational Autoethnography

By tr | by tr

B. LeMaster, Danny Shultz, J. Nyla, Gray Bowers, and Rusty Rust. “Unlearning Cisheteronormativity at the Intersections of Difference: Performing Queer Worldmaking through Collaged Relational Autoethnography.” Text and Performance Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, 2019, pp. 341-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2019.1672885