Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory

Managing Gender Care in Precarity: Trans Communities Respond to COVID-19

Transgender (trans) people always already live with health care precarity, particularly concerning gender transition. During a pandemic, this precarity is heightened. Trans people find themselves without access to necessary cross-sex hormones or isolated with unaccepting or hostile family members. As a result, some engage in tactical technical communication, using the Internet to source knowledge and…

History Nonfiction Social Sciences

The Hijra Comes in from the Heat and Dust: NOTES TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF BANGLADESHI WRITING IN ENGLISH

Anyone who has been to South Asia has come across hijras in towns and cities, conspicuously different from the average man or woman, in appearance, garb, demeanour. They do regular rounds in markets, collecting what could be called a tithe from shopkeepers. Always in small groups, they hustle people in cars waiting at crossroads for…

History Nonfiction Other Social Sciences

The paradox of recognition: hijra, third gender and sexual rights in Bangladesh

Hijra, the iconic figure of South Asian gender and sexual difference, comprise a publicly institutionalised subculture of male-bodied feminine-identified people. Although they have existed as a culturally recognised third gender for a very long time, it is only recently that hijra have been legally recognised as a third gender in several South Asian countries. This…

Essay Nonfiction Other Social Sciences

It’s A Sin To Kill A Mockingbird: Writings on Scout Schultz, Queer Anarchist Killed by Georgia Tech Police

On Friday, September 16 2017, 21-year old Scout Schultz was shot and killed by police at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Scout was active in campus LGBT groups and identified as intersex. Scout was a part of local organized antifascist initiatives and was an anarchist. When news spread of their death, friends, family, and classmates…

Nonfiction Other Social Sciences

‘‘I Walked into the Industry for Survival and Came Out of a Closet’’: How Gender and Sexual Identities Shape Sex Work Experiences among Men, Two Spirit, and Trans People in Vancouver

Background/Objectives: This article seeks to examine how gender and sexual identities shape sex work experiences among men, two spirit, and/or trans people in Vancouver. Methods: In-depth, semistructured interviews were conducted with men and trans people in Metro Vancouver from Community Health Assessment of Men Who Purchase and Sell Sex. An intersectional critical feminist perspective guided…

History Nonfiction Social Sciences

Europe, the New Abyssinia: On the Role of the First Hijra in the Fiqh al-Aqalliyyāt al-Muslima Discourse

Since the mid-1980s, Muslim jurists and theologians have discussed the permissibility of mass-scale Muslim permanent voluntary settlement in majority non-Muslim countries and the unique challenges Muslim minorities face in secularizing Christian societies. Their efforts constitute a new field in Islamic jurisprudence, fiqh al-aqalliyyāt al-Muslima (the religious law of Muslim minorities). A number of participants in…

History Nonfiction Other Social Sciences

Spanish research in gender dysphoria: A review of more than 20 years of biomedical literature.

Objective. To provide a bibliometric and contents analyses of the Spanish research in the field of gender dysphoria based on a literature review. Method. Five international and four national databases, and two platforms were used to retrieve publications using the keyword “gender dysphoria” and related terms. The results were combined with Spain and with the…