Amor En Los Tiempos de Mi Amigo Robot
Spanish review of the Oscar-nominated film, Robot Dreams. A queer analysis of the animated movie directed by Pablo Berger based on the book by Sara Varon.
Art Critique Essay
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Social Sciences Theory
A study about attitudes toward transgenders: a transparent hate or a colourful love?
Transphobia is supported by negative, prejudiced, discriminatory and harassing attitudes toward transgender men and women, rooted in social, political, educational, and religious learning. The present study aims to perceive the relationship between empathy, self esteem, religiosity and age on negative attitudes towards transgender men and women. We also aim to determine the collective and unique…
Critique Essay Humanities Law/Legal Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory
Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy
Since 2023, the UK government’s response to the “migrant crisis” has revolved around two controversial flagship policies: the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the detention of migrants aboard a giant barge. In this blog post for Engenderings, I examine the colonial and gendered dimensions of the two policies, finding them to be examples…
Essay Humanities Nonfiction Theory
More than mercy: towards a better affective compromise in the Catholic pastoral response to transness
Pope Francis’ pastoral response to trans people represents a compromise between his negative-affective political stance towards transness, and his positive-affective theology of pastoral welcome. By reducing away transness to sickness or sin, he can welcome trans people as individuals in a depoliticized personal sphere apart from the political – at the cost of a reductive…
Anthology Critique Essay Humanities Nonfiction Other Social Sciences
Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children’s and young adult literature. It complements and updates the scholarship in the field by creating a rich, cohesive examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. By providing an expansive treatment of gender and sexuality across…
Nonfiction Theory
Faggotization and The Extant Gender Ternary
On the Gender Subaltern Class, and the Three-Gender System that Defines Us A Marxist-Leninist analysis on the institution of gender as defined not by individual identities, but relations and proximity to power. Originally published on The Sizhen System’s Substack newsletter. Available on the Internet Archive here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240907213253/https://thesizhensystem.substack.com/p/faggotization-and-the-extant-gender
Nonfiction
Historical Eating Disorders Among the Transmasculine
Paper on historical cases of anorexia among FtMs
Essay Humanities Nonfiction Theory
Time is Out of Joint: Trans Identity Assemblage in the Queer Temporality of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography
Virginia Woolf’s Orlando has already been established as a queer novel by several previous academic studies. Many of its aspects, such as the subversion of gender expectations, Woolf’s theory of the androgynous mind, as well as how the character relates to time, have already been separately analysed. Nonetheless, almost all previous studies view Orlando’s identity…
Critique Law/Legal Nonfiction Social Sciences
Objectification and Transgender Jurisprudence: The Dictionary as Quasi-Statute
This paper analyzes definitional issues raised by terms such as “man” and “woman” in transgender jurisprudence, focussing on the Court of First Instance decision in W v Registrar of Marriages. Courts frequently seek guidance on ordinary meaning in standard works of lexicography. But this objecti- fies the trans party by treating so-called “ordinary” meaning and…
Critique Essay Humanities Nonfiction Theory
Following the STAR to the Cross: Sylvia Rivera as prophetic witness to trans suffering
This essay responds to individualising and depoliticising tendencies in Pope Francis’ pastoral approach to trans suffering. These tendencies emerge from an attempt to recover a positive pastoral approach amidst a fundamentally hostile political project. This ultimately aligns them with, rather than against, trans suffering. This paper reads Sylvia Rivera’s St Christopher Street Parade speech as…