This article examines Paul B. Preciado’s Testo Junkie as portraying the need for a postpornographic trans* feminism that contests homonormative queer and feminist responses to LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual) individuals in neoliberal French and Francophone societies during the rise of far-right anti-gender movements. Interrogating Preciado’s autotheory text, which questions what gendered performance entails in the pharmacopornographic era, allows for a consideration of the author’s bodily subjectivity and how he represents material-discursive practices to theorise his techno-identity. The article argues that Preciado highlights his sexual and gendered performance to assert a trans* identity that rebels against classification. Unveiling the multiplicity of gendered and sexual experiences that counter Western hegemonic binary categorisations, Preciado shows readers that through his material representation, he controls his own subjectivity to centre possibility with postpornographic feminist performance, expanding what it means to be a feminist subject in the twenty-first century.

Additionally, I would also like to thank the department faculty and staff for making the graduate program at Iowa State University an enjoyable and enriching experience. I would like to especially acknowledge my literature professors who encouraged me to improve as a student, scholar, and teacher and for demonstrating that these roles are not mutually exclusive. I would also like to thank my friends and colleagues, particularly Tonya Tienter, for being a great library buddy who was always there to answer such important questions as "What kind of pants do hobbits wear?" and also Evan Taylor, for proving that I do, in fact, like to argue. It's been fun. Of course, I would like to recognize my family for their unwavering support and for being great examples of people who follow their passions. Finally, I would like to thank Anthony Hatcher for putting the guitar down when I needed quiet, for always doing the laundry, and for making me play outside. Above all else, I would like to thank him for his infinite love, encouragement, and kindness.

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