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…
Forum edited by GPat Patterson, “Transcending the Acronym,” special issue of Women and Language, vol. 41, no. 1, 2019, pp. 155-158.
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
Alaina Zanin, Lore/tta LeMaster, Lucy Niess, and Haley Lucero. “Storying the Gender Binary in Sport: Narrative Motifs Among Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming Athletes.” Communication and Sport, https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795221148159.
B. LeMaster and Megan Stephenson. “Trans (Gender) Trouble.” The Future of Queer Communication, academic forum in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 2021, pp. 190-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2021.1907851.
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.
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.
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
Following the publication In My Mind’s Eye, her acclaimed first volume of diaries, a Radio 4 Book of the Week in 2018, Jan Morris continued to write her daily musings. From her home in the North West of Wales, the author of classics such as Venice and Trieste cast her eye over modern life in…
This essay focuses on hijras in India and on male women sangomas in Zulu gender-differentiated possession cults in South Africa. We approach these individuals through the travelling concept of “translects”, in the sense in which hijras and sangomas as “transgender individuals” cultivating a culture-specific, gender liminality use words to refer to themselves, their body parts,…
