Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

Through thick and thin: Storying queer women’s experiences of idealised body images and expected body management practices

What lessons about linearity are illuminated by the stories that engage our experience of queer fat bodies? The authors examine stories generated in the collaborative, community-based research project Through Thick and Thin. They analyze a selection of 3- to 7-minute microdocumentaries produced in the project that feature assemblages of queer sexuality, gender expression and identity,…

Biography Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

Charlotte Charlaque: Transfrau, Laienschauspielerin, “Königin der Brooklyn Heights Promenade”

Raimund Wolfert […] hat eine kurze, aber ungeheuer interessante Biografie über eine Patientin und Mitarbeiterin an [Magnus Hirschfelds Institut für Sexualwissenschaft] geschrieben. […] Das Buch basiert auf gründlichen und umfangreichen Archivrecherchen und beeindruckt in hohem Maß – vielleicht gerade deshalb, weil es mit so großer Deutlichkeit zeigt, dass Identitätsfragen, die wir als sehr zeittypisch erleben,…

Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

Needing to Acquire a Physical Impairment/Disability: (Re)Thinking the Connections Between Trans and Disability Studies Through Transability

This article discusses the acquisition of a physical impairment/disability through voluntary body modification, or transability. From the perspectives of critical genealogy and feminist intersectional analysis, the article considers the ability and cis*/trans* axes in order to question the boundaries between trans and transabled experience and examines two assumptions impeding the conceptualization of their placement on…

Archive Biography Critique History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory

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

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…

Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

The Masculine Vaginal: Working With Queer Men’s Embodiment at the Transgender Edge

Turning away from the conspicuous phenomena of transgender experience, with an eye toward locating and illuminating the transgender edge in cisgender, this paper explores the relationship between men and the Vaginal, both material and fantasized. Positing the Vaginal as a counterpart to the Phallic allows a delinkage of vaginal psychic and embodied states from the…

Biography History Humanities Nonfiction

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

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…

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Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology

SELF: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology considers the psycho-physical mechanisms and reactions in human nature and destiny. This book is composed of seven chapters and begins with a description of the complexity of human body and mind, specifically their physical basis and nature of functioning. These topics are followed by a presentation on the…

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Intersectionality and the invisibility of transgender health in the Philippines

Transgender (trans) Filipinos are disproportionately vulnerable to health problems because of the inaccessibility of essential healthcare services resulting from the invisibility and exclusion of trans health in Philippine health and related social institutions. Because of the institutional prejudice and discrimination against trans Filipinos in Philippine society, an intersectional approach presents an opportunity to analyze the…