What does cisgender mean? What are people saying when they refer to “assigned” gender? Why is it not OK to say ‘preferred pronouns’? What is cis privilege? If you’re curious about the answers to these questions and want to learn more, this book is for you. This easy-to-read guide offers information and advice to anyone…
The nature of the transsexual’s stigma is such that she can pass as a natural female with little difficulty if she chooses to. At the same time, transsexuals do not once and for all become women after their conversion operation. Their ambiguous gender implies at least a double identity: some of the feminized transsexual’s social…
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…
This work focuses on the homosexual rights movement during the Weimar Republic, which became a vocal part of the burgeoning sexual and reproductive rights movement in Germany. This was not simply the quixotic effort of some small insignificant voice in the wilderness. The homosexual rights movement in the Weimar Republic encompassed a number of groups…
This essay makes the case that the author’s friends, all of them, are or are becoming trans. Not in a way that indexes a medico-juridical demographic, but in the sense that trans as a mode of living is the grounds on which the author forges relationality. Thus it is no surprise that time and again,…
In The Made-Up State, Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, who compose one of Indonesia’s trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way of captivating the affective, material, and spatial experiences of belonging to a modern public sphere. Combining historical and ethnographic research, Hegarty traces the participation of warias in visual and bodily technologies, ranging from…
Spanish review of the Oscar-nominated film, Robot Dreams. A queer analysis of the animated movie directed by Pablo Berger based on the book by Sara Varon.
Since 2023, the UK government’s response to the “migrant crisis” has revolved around two controversial flagship policies: the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the detention of migrants aboard a giant barge. In this blog post for Engenderings, I examine the colonial and gendered dimensions of the two policies, finding them to be examples…
Pope Francis’ pastoral response to trans people represents a compromise between his negative-affective political stance towards transness, and his positive-affective theology of pastoral welcome. By reducing away transness to sickness or sin, he can welcome trans people as individuals in a depoliticized personal sphere apart from the political – at the cost of a reductive…
This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children’s and young adult literature. It complements and updates the scholarship in the field by creating a rich, cohesive examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. By providing an expansive treatment of gender and sexuality across…