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…

Archive History Nonfiction Theory

Lorenza Böttner: From Chilean Exceptionalism to Queer Inclusion

Although critical efforts since the end of Chile’s dictatorship have successfully deployed narratives of dissident gender comportment to disrupt the country’s neoliberal discourse of economic exceptionalism, some queer narratives of the postdictatorship period that are not contingent on Chile’s dictatorial, violent past have been excluded from this debate. The story of Lorenza Böttner, a transgender…

Natural Sciences Nonfiction

Complications and Patient-reported Outcomes in Transfemale Vaginoplasty: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Background: Vaginoplasty aims to create a functional feminine vagina, sensate clitoris, and labia minora and majora with acceptable cosmesis. The upward trend in the number of transfemale vaginoplasties has impacted the number of published articles on this topic. Herein, we conducted an updated systematic review on complications and patient-reported outcomes. Methods: A update on our…

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…

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…

Essay History Humanities Nonfiction Other Social Sciences Theory

Homo Economics Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life

Homo Economics is the first honest account of the tense relationship between gay people and the economy. This groundbreaking collection brings together a variety of voices from the worlds of journalism, activism, academia, the arts, and public policy to address issues including the recent economic history of the gay community, the community’s response to its…