In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to
examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural …

At the end of the 19th century, a scientific culture dedicated to the study of sexualities
emerged simultaneously with a new concept of sexual identities and minorities within …

Body modification and transformation have exerted a growing fascination in contemporary
consumer culture. This is partly because science and technology continue to weaken the …

This dialogue contends with the state of trans studies today. While the authors differ in their
levels of optimism for its future, they both agree that if trans studies is to survive, it must be …

Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border
wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist and queer theorists. Intersecting the …

The idea that sex and gender are different is one of the foundational contributions of feminist
scholarship (Delphy 1993). It is this distinction—between the biological and the social—that …

Recognizing Transsexuals draws on interviews with transsexuals at various stages of
transition to offer an original account of transsexual embodiment and bodily aesthetics …

In recent years, queer studies has increasingly interrogated the racial and colonial
unconscious embedded in the earlier studies of non-normative genders and sexualities …

This roundtable considers trans theory's status as a site of thinking racialization, empire,
political economy, and materiality in the current historical, institutional, and political moment …

At the inaugural Queer History Conference (QHC19), held on June 16–19, 2019, at San
Francisco State University, I found myself tuning out during gripping presentations. 1 My …