This chapter provides an overview of the queer video artists who are working in the United States in the twenty-first-century and presenting their work primarily in gallery and museum contexts, either in traditional shows or performance/time-based interventions. Their work is divided into purposefully capacious and fluid categories: reimagining a queer/trans world, restaging the medium, and…
Preface and Introduction to Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender, including section on ‘transgender capacity’
Anthology collection of trans verse poems from 1967-1991. “It was important to me to create this work because, through the medium of “feelings-in-words” – ranging from the silly to the sublime – I aspired to shed some light on the real lives of transsexual and transgender(ist) people and crossdressers as they were living them a…
“Queer Formalism: The Return is the first installment in the Critic’s Essay Series published by Floating Opera Press. Comprising long-form essays, this series gives voice to critics who offer thought-provoking ways in which to subvert or replace normative modes of discussing culture. Queer Formalism: The Return expands upon William J. Simmons’s original, influential essay “Notes…
The Spring 2013 Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series exhibition: Trans Technology continued the annual collaboration between the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art (IWA) and the RutgersInstitute for Research on Women (IRW). The IRW selects a cutting edge theme each year for its interdisciplinary seminar and lecture series. For academic year 2012-2013, scholars at…
SCRATCH Zine Issue #4 from Milwaukee Table of Contents: welcome are you ready for pride? young women’s empowerment conference poetry ask judy mommie dearest crystal meth and cocaine breaking the cycles of violence uhaul lesbians fagtoid transamerica and sexual assault awareness month
Over 200 pages of legends, spells, facts, and rainbow food recipes! Do you need a little more rainbow in your life? What about sparkle? Look no further. Unicornucopia is here! Packed full of over 200 enchanting pages of legends, spells, facts, crafts, and unicorn food recipes, Unicornucopia: The Little Book of Unicorns is the ultimate…
Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal—yet universal—facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb touches on history, science, sociology, and her own experience. This book…
As with the first volume of Transcendent, Lethe Press has worked with a wonderful editor to select the best work of genderqueer stories of the fantastical, stranger, horrific, and weird published the prior year. Featuring stories by Merc Rustad, Jeanne Thornton, Brit Mandelo, and others, this anthology offers time-honored tropes of the genre–from genetic manipulation…
There is a growing recognition of the importance of transgender perspectives about the environment. Unlike more established approaches in the environmental humanities and queer studies, transecology is a nascent inquiry whose significance and scope are only just being articulated. Drawing upon the fields of gender studies and ecological studies, contributors to this volume engage major…