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Trans-feminist punk in the United States: Collective action, activism, and a libidinal economy of noise

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This chapter explores the tripartite relationship between transgender identities, political activism, and sonic practice. In particular, this chapter employs theorizations of noise to explore a rupture in the prevalent binarisms of sound and gender in the American punk scene and its aesthetics. Drawing upon theoretical frameworks such as Herbert Marcuse’s one-dimensional society and Jean-François Lyotard’s…

Biography History Humanities Nonfiction

An Ethics of Attentiveness: Photographic Portraits and Deviant Dwelling in German Queer and Trans Archives

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Photographic portraits of queer subjects from the early 20th century—shaped by early medical-scientific and legal practices—have often been identified with hegemonic ways of seeing, even when they re restaged in the present. In this article we argue that bringing an ethics of attentiveness to the analysis of such photographs reveals not only how embodied subjectivities…

Critique History Humanities Social Sciences Theory

Performing (Asian American Trans) Femme on RuPaul’s Drag Race: Dis/Orienting Racialized Gender, or, Performing Trans Femme of Color, Regardless

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Lore/tta LeMaster and Michael Tristano, Jr. “Performing (Asian American Trans) Femme on RuPaul’s Drag Race: Dis/Orienting Racialized Gender, or, Performing Trans Femme of Color, Regardless.” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2021.1955143

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Trans Relational Ambivalences: A Critical Analysis of Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Relational (Un)Belonging in Sport Contexts

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Lore/tta LeMaster, Alaina Zanin, Lucy Niess, and Haley Lucero. “Trans Relational Ambivalences: A Critical Analysis of Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Relational (Un)Belonging in Sport Contexts.” Women’s Studies in Communication, vol. 46, no. 1, 2023, pp. 42-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2156418.

History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

Group Therapy with Gender-Dysphoric Patients

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CW: misgendering. This paper by an anti-trans therapist has been uploaded for historical purposes and does not reflect proper and ethical reporting on trans people. A two-year study utilizing expressive dynamic group psychotherapy with gender-dysphoric patients is described. Two distinct stages in the emergent therapeutic relationship are labeled and clinically evaluated. Specific strategies and goals…

History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

Baylan, Asog, Transvestism, and Sodomy: Gender, Sexuality and the Sacred in Early Colonial Philippines

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The importance of women to the spiritual wellbeing of the inhabitants of the Philippine archipelago was a recurrent theme in the reports emanating from the quills of missionaries, explorers and administrators alike from the first European contact with Magellan in 1521 and subsequently during the decades following Legaspi’s arrival in 1565. However the reports contained…