Consuming the Living, Dis(re)membering the Dead in the Butch/Ftm Borderlands

Abstract

The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead; and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living. And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other. -1 Kings 3:23-25

Retelling racialized violence, remaking white innocence: The politics of interlocking oppressions in transgender day of remembrance

“…7 These divisions over who is included in the community resurface within projects such as TDOR, where belonging through victimhood is the platform for political agency. For example, the 1993 high profile murder of Brandon Teena 8 sparked fierce sectarian battles among transgender, transsexual, and lesbian and gay activists, who each wanted to claim this murder as an attack against their own kind (Halberstam, 2005;Hale, 1998). A similar example can be found in the 1996 murder of three sex workers in Toronto who were shot within hours of each other by Marcello Palma.…”

“…8 I use the name Brandon Teena here because it is the most commonly recognized name. However, as Jacob Hale (1998) carefully documented, the identity of the individual who is popularly known as Brandon Teena was far more complicated than most accounts convey. It is not clear whether this individual used the name Brandon Teena or firmly identified within any single identity category.…”

“…92-93) Such practices have concrete material consequences. As Jacob Hale (1998) argued, "When a border zone denizen's corpse is claimed by those with firmer categorical location, border zones become less habitable for those who are trying to live in the nearly unspeakable spaces created by overlapping margins of distinct categories" (p. 319). In other words, when the complexity of identity is denied or ignored for political gain, those whose lives do not conform to easily politicizable identities have even less space in which to express themselves, make political claims, and confront oppression.…”

La guerra declarada contra el niño afeminado: Una autoetnografía “queer”

“…Vale resaltar que estos límites o fronteras han sido problematizados en el caso de lesbianas butch y transgéneros masculinos, así por ejemplo en los trabajos de Judith Halberstam (2005aHalberstam ( , 2008 y Jacob Hale (1998). Sin embargo, en el caso de las feminidades masculinas éstas no parecen ser disputadas por gays (Bryant, 2008;Valentine, 2007) 5 .…”

All about women: Pedro Almodóvar and the heterosocial dynamic

“…1 Despite the extent to which gender dysphoric and gender transgressive positions are often currently placed as functions of transgendered identities, rather than gay or lesbian ones, there remains a substantial history of camp performance, cross-gender identi cation, gender role-play and gender blurring in uranist/homophile/queer/lesbian/gay cultures. Third-sex models were among the rst narratives we produced of ourselves, and they remain crucial to a whole range of cultural and political articulations for gay men and for lesbians.…”