in 2011, I was diagnosed with chronic transsexualism. The doctor did not actually term it ”chronic transsexualism.” It was a diagnosis of ”transsexualism” with a duration marked as ”chronic.” Such a diagnosis sounded dated even at that time. The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), which was current then, used ”gender identity…
In conversation with Emmett Harsin Drager and Andrea Long Chu’s “After Trans Studies,” this collaborative essay also turns to questions of field formation and the ethos of trans studies. Situating the growth of the field in the material conditions of precarity under which trans knowledge workers work, the authors argue that trans studies can’t be…
This essay argues that certain print pornography featuring “crossdresser,” “transvestite,” and “transsexual” subjects was, counterintuitively, part of a distributed information and care network by and for US transfeminine people between the 1970s and 1990s.
Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography showcases a collection of narrative and autoethnographic research that unpacks the complexity of gender at its intersections, i.e. by ability, race, sexuality, religion, beauty, geography, spatiality, community, performance, politics, socio-economic status, education, and many other markers of difference. The book focuses on gender as it is lived, chaperoned, and chaperones other…
Forum edited by GPat Patterson, “Transcending the Acronym,” special issue of Women and Language, vol. 41, no. 1, 2019, pp. 155-158.
B. LeMaster and Meggie Mapes. “Embracing the Criminal: Queer and Trans Relational Liberatory Pedagogies.” Queer Intercultural Communication, edited by Shinsuke Eguchi and Bernadette Marie Calafell. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, pp. 63-78.
B. LeMaster and Megan Stephenson. “Trans (Gender) Trouble.” The Future of Queer Communication, academic forum in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 2021, pp. 190-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2021.1907851.
B. LeMaster. “Transing Dystopia: Constituting Trans Monstrosity, Performing Trans Rage in Torrey Peters’ Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones.” Monstrosity, special issue of Popular Culture Studies Journal, vol. 6, no. 2-3, 2018, pp. 96-117. https://mpcaaca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PopCultureJourn-Vol-6-2018-OCT-.jpg.
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
T! is a zine about testosterone – endogenous, exogenous, loved, hated, complicated. Containing personal essay, digital art, fiction, collage, a board game and even a recipe, T! is a collection of thoughts about testosterone that run counter to the dominant bioessentialist narrative. Part fact and part fiction, part comedy and part instruction manual, part love…
