In part One of Ten, a pair of synthesized humans hitchhike away from abusive work camps of their past and into the hellish mega-cities of their future… “A strained transmission from the massive and terrifying citadel of so-called human experience? Black Iron Prison: epistle on the beauty of sadness–and salvation found through sin. Like crying…
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…
B. LeMaster and Meggie Mapes. “Embracing the Criminal: Queer and Trans Relational Liberatory Pedagogies.” Queer Intercultural Communication, edited by Shinsuke Eguchi and Bernadette Marie Calafell. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, pp. 63-78.
B. LeMaster. “Queer Communication Pedagogy.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication, edited by Isaac West, E Cram, Frederik Dhaenens, Pamela Lannutti, and Gust Yep. Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 1-26.
Essay/nonfiction piece looking at the idea of a trans temporality and experiences in trans feminine aging.
A trans teen runs away from home, and has to make some new friends to survive on the streets.
While staking out a target, a transgender bounty hunter discovers a machine that could grant her greatest desires.
ABSTRACT Background: The number of adolescents presenting with gender dysphoria (GD) in healthcare services has increased significantly, yet specialized services offering transition-related care (TRC) for trans youth is lacking. Aim: To investigate satisfaction with TRC, regret, and reasons for (dis)satisfaction with transition-related medical interventions (TRMIs) in trans adolescents who had presented to the Hamburg Gender…
Not only academics have the skills and means to integrate digital tools and humanistic inquiry. We argue that these distinctions are both real and imagined and as such need to be examined closely to determine the intricate and multilayered dynamics of each space. We make two main arguments in this chapter: the digital world and…
“It is not so much our judgements as it is our prejudices that constitute our being,” writes Hans-Georg Gadamer in the opening paper of a collection of his essays titled Philosophical Hermeneutics (Gadamer 1976). This claim is a provocative one and announces one of the more memorable motifs in Gadamer’s writings. It also pursues in…