Twenty Minutes: July 1989
The official newsletter of the transsexual support group of the Gender Identity Clinic of New England, Inc.
History Nonfiction Reference/Guide/Manual
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Critique Essay History Humanities Law/Legal Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory
Beyond Queer Disavowal to Building Abolition
While unlikely actors such as Newt Gingrich, member of the conservative prison reform organization Right on Crime,1 lobby for sentencing reform and prison closure and herald the “end of mass incarceration” (New York Times 2014), facets of our carceral regime remain untouched. People convicted of sex crimes are, according to political scientist Marie Gottschalk, “the…
Art Children's Humanities Journal/Diary Nonfiction Reference/Guide/Manual Social Sciences
Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth: A Queer Literacy Framework (Queer Studies and Education)
Winner of the 2018 Outstanding Book by the Michigan Council Teachers of English Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 Winner of the 2017 AERA Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) Exemplary Research Award This book draws upon a queer literacy framework to map out examples for teaching literacy across pre-K-12 schooling. To…
Biography Essay History Humanities Journal/Diary Nonfiction Social Sciences
This Heart Holds Many: My Life as the Nonbinary Millennial Child of a Polyamorous Family
Many of us were asked by our mother to do the dishes as children. Perhaps some of us would need to be asked more than once. Koe Creation was the type who’d get asked three times, by three different mothers. Crowded parent-teacher conferences, queer youth summer camp, and parental adoptions over potluck dinner were typical…
Critique Essay Nonfiction
Institutionalizing Trans* Studies at the University of Arizona
This article reports on the successes and challenges of institutionalizing trans* studies at the University of Arizona. It describes the Transgender Studies Faculty Cluster Hire Initiative of 2013–18, efforts to establish a curricular program of some sort in trans studies, barriers to achieving some of the initiative’s early goals,
Biography Drama Fiction History Journal/Diary Short Story
Braziel Robinson: Possessed of Two Spirits
BRAZIEL ROBINSON POSSESSED OF TWO SPIRITS: Braziel Robinson, recently deceased, is a negro of about seventy-five years of age, and came to our plantation immediately after the war to test the question whether he was really free or not, and had the right to move from his former master’s place. He soon established a reputation…
Critique Essay Humanities Law/Legal Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory
Pauli Murray’s Peter Panic: Perspectives from the Margins of Gender and Race in Jim Crow America
This article investigates the history of intersectional feminism and demonstrates that the theory is grounded in a trans-of-color analysis of the racial caste system known as “Jim Crow.” In 1944, Pauli Murray, an African American activist, journalist, and lawyer, coined the term Jane Crow, which critiqued the simultaneous structural and affective impacts of white supremacy…
Art Critique Essay Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory
The ties that bind are fragile and often imaginary: Community, identity politics, and the limits of representation
“There will always be something wrong with trans representations in the media. There is no such thing as a trans character or story that would not offend or misrepresent someone. Media-makers are not going to answer our prayers. Though I know, as a media-maker, I am always trying, and at least acknowledge that failure is…
Biography Essay History Humanities Journal/Diary Law/Legal Nonfiction Other Social Sciences
Discrimination Against Gay Men, Lesbians, and Transgender People Working in Education
This paper explores the workplace experiences of 120 gay men, lesbians, and transgender people who were employed as teachers, academics, and educators. The data, drawn from a larger collaborative research project, explored the workplace experiences of 900 gay men, lesbians, and transgender people. Homophobic harassment and treatment were widespread amongst the lesbian, gay men, and…
Art Critique Essay History Humanities Nonfiction Theory
The “Ronggeng”, the “Wayang”, the “Wali”, and Islam: Female or Transvestite Male Dancers-Singers-Performers and Evolving Islam in West Java
This article discusses the relationship of Islam, female performance, wayang/topeng, and transvestite practices in the performing arts of West Java, giving a very brief overview of three periods: the mytho-historic moment of the wali (saints), who used arts, including ronggeng (female-style singing-dancing) as a tool of conversion; the colonial era, when the palaces that were…