https://blue.feedland.org/?river=http://data.feedland.org/blue/feeds/Jamey.xml It's just a feed for now Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:24:23 GMT feedland v0.5.59 https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:24:23 GMT Jamey Fri, October 20, 2023 1:24 PM EDT <p>OUT NOW 🎉 “Trans Histories by Trans Historians,” a GHR special issue featuring the work of nine emerging trans historians and the joyful cover art of @bonmotmilo, edited by @chrisapihlak.bsky.social and yours truly 🏳️‍ Pls share &amp; read open-access (summaries below!) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ghrvol12">https://tinyurl.com/ghrvol12</a></p> <p>Our issue kicks off @ChanathipSwn&#39;s study of Kiratee Chanar’s 1982 Thang Sai Thee Sam (The Third Pathway) as a Kathoey Archive. Situating the novel within the Cold War and development of global sex change capitals, Suwannanon works to re-write the history of Thai trans medicine.</p> <p>Next up, @gnomebinary offers an incisive analysis of Hedesthia, Aotearoa New Zealand’s first formal transvestite-transsexual organization. Despite being an essential community space, the org follower a politics of respectability that denigrated Māori &amp; Pasifika trans sex workers.</p> <p>@JuniperOxford provides another formidable re-historicization with her analysis of American trans feminine draft dodgers of the Second World War, demonstrating how many ‘pre-Jorgensen’ trans women were still committed to gendered embodiments, despite resultant trans misogyny.</p> <p>Advanced undergrad Penelope Higgins wraps up our articles w a close reading of 1970 transploitation films Myra Breckinridge &amp; Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, concluding with a passionate call for trans historical scholarship to become a weapon in our ongoing fight against fascism</p> <p>Our critical commentaries lead with Sam Dolores Sanchinel’s half-book review, half-autobiographical interpretation of _Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Making Sex_, gifting their trans femme perspective on the historiography of putas and Rodríguez’s model of queer affective kinship.</p> <p>Next, @callmeamab proposes us a much-needed trans historical methodology of &#39;constellating&#39; as an antidote to the over-memorialization of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that allows for multiple points of trans activist histories from different communities, geographies, and periods.</p> <p>Emily Cousens provides a similar genealogical intervention with their interrogation of how “androgyny” was articulated &amp; appealed to within 1970s trans &amp; feminist communities, revealing an established philosophy of androgyny that could destabilize accepted taxonomical timelines.</p> <p>Following suit, @DeanLeetal revisits the Jewish story of the Golem through a trans, autistic, and neurogender lens. Akin to Stryker’s canonical reading of Frankenstein, Leetal extrapolates core lessons from the folktale for contemporary neurogender Jewish readers.</p> <p>Closing our special issue is Moira Armstrong&#39;s insightful analysis of trans public history through the London-based Museum of Transology, an activist and community-based foundation institution that signifies the possibilities and necessities of “radical (trans) trust.”</p> Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:24:23 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=160742 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=160742 OUT NOW 🎉 “Trans Histories by Trans Historians,” a GHR special issue featuring the work of nine emerging trans historians and the joyful cover art of @bonmotmilo, edited by @chrisapihlak.bsky.social and yours truly 🏳️‍ Pls share & read open-access (summaries below!) https://tinyurl.com/ghrvol12 Our issue kicks off @ChanathipSwn's study of Kiratee Chanar’s 1982 Thang Sai Thee Sam (The Third Pathway) as a Kathoey Archive. Situating the novel within the Cold War and development of global sex change capitals, Suwannanon works to re-write the history of Thai trans medicine. Next up, @gnomebinary offers an incisive analysis of Hedesthia, Aotearoa New Zealand’s first formal transvestite-transsexual organization. Despite being an essential community space, the org follower a politics of respectability that denigrated Māori & Pasifika trans sex workers. @JuniperOxford provides another formidable re-historicization with her analysis of American trans feminine draft dodgers of the Second World War, demonstrating how many ‘pre-Jorgensen’ trans women were still committed to gendered embodiments, despite resultant trans misogyny. Advanced undergrad Penelope Higgins wraps up our articles w a close reading of 1970 transploitation films Myra Breckinridge & Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, concluding with a passionate call for trans historical scholarship to become a weapon in our ongoing fight against fascism Our critical commentaries lead with Sam Dolores Sanchinel’s half-book review, half-autobiographical interpretation of \_Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Making Sex\_, gifting their trans femme perspective on the historiography of putas and Rodríguez’s model of queer affective kinship. Next, @callmeamab proposes us a much-needed trans historical methodology of 'constellating' as an antidote to the over-memorialization of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that allows for multiple points of trans activist histories from different communities, geographies, and periods. Emily Cousens provides a similar genealogical intervention with their interrogation of how “androgyny” was articulated & appealed to within 1970s trans & feminist communities, revealing an established philosophy of androgyny that could destabilize accepted taxonomical timelines. Following suit, @DeanLeetal revisits the Jewish story of the Golem through a trans, autistic, and neurogender lens. Akin to Stryker’s canonical reading of Frankenstein, Leetal extrapolates core lessons from the folktale for contemporary neurogender Jewish readers. Closing our special issue is Moira Armstrong's insightful analysis of trans public history through the London-based Museum of Transology, an activist and community-based foundation institution that signifies the possibilities and necessities of “radical (trans) trust.” <p>OUT NOW 🎉 “Trans Histories by Trans Historians,” a GHR special issue featuring the work of nine emerging trans historians and the joyful cover art of @bonmotmilo, edited by @chrisapihlak.bsky.social and yours truly 🏳️‍ Pls share &amp; read open-access (summaries below!) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ghrvol12">https://tinyurl.com/ghrvol12</a></p> <p>Our issue kicks off @ChanathipSwn&#39;s study of Kiratee Chanar’s 1982 Thang Sai Thee Sam (The Third Pathway) as a Kathoey Archive. Situating the novel within the Cold War and development of global sex change capitals, Suwannanon works to re-write the history of Thai trans medicine.</p> <p>Next up, @gnomebinary offers an incisive analysis of Hedesthia, Aotearoa New Zealand’s first formal transvestite-transsexual organization. Despite being an essential community space, the org follower a politics of respectability that denigrated Māori &amp; Pasifika trans sex workers.</p> <p>@JuniperOxford provides another formidable re-historicization with her analysis of American trans feminine draft dodgers of the Second World War, demonstrating how many ‘pre-Jorgensen’ trans women were still committed to gendered embodiments, despite resultant trans misogyny.</p> <p>Advanced undergrad Penelope Higgins wraps up our articles w a close reading of 1970 transploitation films Myra Breckinridge &amp; Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, concluding with a passionate call for trans historical scholarship to become a weapon in our ongoing fight against fascism</p> <p>Our critical commentaries lead with Sam Dolores Sanchinel’s half-book review, half-autobiographical interpretation of _Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Making Sex_, gifting their trans femme perspective on the historiography of putas and Rodríguez’s model of queer affective kinship.</p> <p>Next, @callmeamab proposes us a much-needed trans historical methodology of &#39;constellating&#39; as an antidote to the over-memorialization of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that allows for multiple points of trans activist histories from different communities, geographies, and periods.</p> <p>Emily Cousens provides a similar genealogical intervention with their interrogation of how “androgyny” was articulated &amp; appealed to within 1970s trans &amp; feminist communities, revealing an established philosophy of androgyny that could destabilize accepted taxonomical timelines.</p> <p>Following suit, @DeanLeetal revisits the Jewish story of the Golem through a trans, autistic, and neurogender lens. Akin to Stryker’s canonical reading of Frankenstein, Leetal extrapolates core lessons from the folktale for contemporary neurogender Jewish readers.</p> <p>Closing our special issue is Moira Armstrong&#39;s insightful analysis of trans public history through the London-based Museum of Transology, an activist and community-based foundation institution that signifies the possibilities and necessities of “radical (trans) trust.”</p> Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:24:23 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=160743 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=160743 OUT NOW 🎉 “Trans Histories by Trans Historians,” a GHR special issue featuring the work of nine emerging trans historians and the joyful cover art of @bonmotmilo, edited by @chrisapihlak.bsky.social and yours truly 🏳️‍ Pls share & read open-access (summaries below!) https://tinyurl.com/ghrvol12 Our issue kicks off @ChanathipSwn's study of Kiratee Chanar’s 1982 Thang Sai Thee Sam (The Third Pathway) as a Kathoey Archive. Situating the novel within the Cold War and development of global sex change capitals, Suwannanon works to re-write the history of Thai trans medicine. Next up, @gnomebinary offers an incisive analysis of Hedesthia, Aotearoa New Zealand’s first formal transvestite-transsexual organization. Despite being an essential community space, the org follower a politics of respectability that denigrated Māori & Pasifika trans sex workers. @JuniperOxford provides another formidable re-historicization with her analysis of American trans feminine draft dodgers of the Second World War, demonstrating how many ‘pre-Jorgensen’ trans women were still committed to gendered embodiments, despite resultant trans misogyny. Advanced undergrad Penelope Higgins wraps up our articles w a close reading of 1970 transploitation films Myra Breckinridge & Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, concluding with a passionate call for trans historical scholarship to become a weapon in our ongoing fight against fascism Our critical commentaries lead with Sam Dolores Sanchinel’s half-book review, half-autobiographical interpretation of \_Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Making Sex\_, gifting their trans femme perspective on the historiography of putas and Rodríguez’s model of queer affective kinship. Next, @callmeamab proposes us a much-needed trans historical methodology of 'constellating' as an antidote to the over-memorialization of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that allows for multiple points of trans activist histories from different communities, geographies, and periods. Emily Cousens provides a similar genealogical intervention with their interrogation of how “androgyny” was articulated & appealed to within 1970s trans & feminist communities, revealing an established philosophy of androgyny that could destabilize accepted taxonomical timelines. Following suit, @DeanLeetal revisits the Jewish story of the Golem through a trans, autistic, and neurogender lens. Akin to Stryker’s canonical reading of Frankenstein, Leetal extrapolates core lessons from the folktale for contemporary neurogender Jewish readers. Closing our special issue is Moira Armstrong's insightful analysis of trans public history through the London-based Museum of Transology, an activist and community-based foundation institution that signifies the possibilities and necessities of “radical (trans) trust.”