Essay Humanities

Is Transsexualism Chronic

in 2011, I was diagnosed with chronic transsexualism. The doctor did not actually term it ”chronic transsexualism.” It was a diagnosis of ”transsexualism” with a duration marked as ”chronic.” Such a diagnosis sounded dated even at that time. The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), which was current then, used ”gender identity…

Essay Humanities

Before Trans Studies

In conversation with Emmett Harsin Drager and Andrea Long Chu’s “After Trans Studies,” this collaborative essay also turns to questions of field formation and the ethos of trans studies. Situating the growth of the field in the material conditions of precarity under which trans knowledge workers work, the authors argue that trans studies can’t be…

Critique History Humanities Social Sciences Theory

Performing (Asian American Trans) Femme on RuPaul’s Drag Race: Dis/Orienting Racialized Gender, or, Performing Trans Femme of Color, Regardless

Lore/tta LeMaster and Michael Tristano, Jr. “Performing (Asian American Trans) Femme on RuPaul’s Drag Race: Dis/Orienting Racialized Gender, or, Performing Trans Femme of Color, Regardless.” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2021.1955143

History Humanities Nonfiction Other Social Sciences Theory Uncategorized

Trans Relational Ambivalences: A Critical Analysis of Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Relational (Un)Belonging in Sport Contexts

Lore/tta LeMaster, Alaina Zanin, Lucy Niess, and Haley Lucero. “Trans Relational Ambivalences: A Critical Analysis of Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Relational (Un)Belonging in Sport Contexts.” Women’s Studies in Communication, vol. 46, no. 1, 2023, pp. 42-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2156418.

Critique Essay Horror Humanities Other Social Sciences Suspense/Thriller

Transing Dystopia: Constituting Trans Monstrosity, Performing Trans Rage in Torrey Peters’ Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

B. LeMaster. “Transing Dystopia: Constituting Trans Monstrosity, Performing Trans Rage in Torrey Peters’ Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones.” Monstrosity, special issue of Popular Culture Studies Journal, vol. 6, no. 2-3, 2018, pp. 96-117. https://mpcaaca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PopCultureJourn-Vol-6-2018-OCT-.jpg.

Art Critique Essay Humanities Nonfiction Other Poetry Short Story Social Sciences Theory Uncategorized

Unlearning Cisheteronormativity at the Intersections of Difference: Performing Queer Worldmaking through Collaged Relational Autoethnography

B. LeMaster, Danny Shultz, J. Nyla, Gray Bowers, and Rusty Rust. “Unlearning Cisheteronormativity at the Intersections of Difference: Performing Queer Worldmaking through Collaged Relational Autoethnography.” Text and Performance Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, 2019, pp. 341-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2019.1672885

Humanities Nonfiction

Making whiteness visible: transgender, race and the paradoxes of in/visibility in Orlando (1928), The Passion of New Eve (1977) and Sacred Country (1992)

This essay aims to identify and examine a recurring but overlooked motif in twentieth-century literary representations of transgender: namely, the ways in which gender identity is achieved, confirmed or normalised through the construction of ‘others’ whose experiences – mediated through discourses of colonialism, Empire and race – render material for contrast, comparison or analogy. By…