Displacing the Gender Binary Through Modes of Dis/Organizing: Sex Toys, Sexuality and Trans Politics

Virtù, Ludovico

doi:10.17645/pag.v8i3.3016

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“…Reconstructing the MIT Fund therefore did not imply making every single document accessible, but describing the sedimentations that characterise the archival units to make the ‘dis/organisation’ (Brewis et al, 2014; Cooper, 1986; Virtú, 2020) of the nexuses between and among these units visible. Our descriptions indicate which archival units we assembled and titled, and which archival units we inherited as they were.…”

Section: ‘Reconstructing’ the Mit Fund: ‘Sedimentations’ As Criteria ...mentioning

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Collective memory and trans history in the Italian context: Archival practices and the creation of the first trans archive in Italy

Voli

Virtù

2023

Memory Studies

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In recent years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the relationship between history, memory, archiving and trans experiences. This body of work has shown how questioning the praxis of archiving from the vantage point of trans experiences has the potential to problematise cis-heteronormative assumptions around the body, time and space and to queer the epistemological premises around what constitutes archives and archival practices. In this article, we present the experience of the project ArchiviST* – Archivi Storia Trans (Trans History Archives) which aims to create the first archive exclusively dedicated to the history of trans lives and activism in contemporary Italy. The project has been promoted by Trans Identity Movement, the most influential and long-lived trans association in Italy. Since its birth in 1979, Trans Identity Movement informally collected a substantial documentary heritage concerning trans and LGBTQIA+ history as a political practice to preserve the counter-memories of its people and movements. The ArchiviST* project carries out the inventorying and digitising of the materials, together with the collection of original video-recorded interviews with pioneering activists of the trans movement. By presenting a reflection on the process of ‘reconstructing’ an archive in this context, we unpack and explore some of the key issues surrounding trans archiving and collective memories in the Italian context: what counts as collective memory? What types of relationships are established between trans memories and the documents present in the archive? What memories have (not) been told, and what voices and subjects have (not) emerged as protagonists? We encourage a reflexive attitude towards the practice of trans archiving to problematise established historiographical categories, such as time, private/public, political engagement, life history and memory and to recognise the ethical and methodological challenges that such a path poses to historiography and archive research in general.

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Section: ‘Reconstructing’ the Mit Fund: ‘Sedimentations’ As Criteria ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective memory and trans history in the Italian context: Archival practices and the creation of the first trans archive in Italy

Voli

Virtù

2023

Memory Studies

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“…With few scholarly articles about the modern sex product marketing of the 21 st century, even fewer scholarly articles exist about the inclusivity and accessibility of sex products to different gender identities and designated groups. An article by Virtù (2020) looks at sex product production in a not-for-profit context to investigate whether trans-organizing of sexuality allows for a critique of traditional and normative discourses on sex, sexuality and the body (p. 321).…”

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Marketing sex products and sex-positive feminism: a comparative analysis of sex product marketing from the analogue to digital age

Leth¹

2022

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<div>At the intersection of sex and technology, the marketing behind sex products has changed drastically from the analogue to digital age over the last century and has become increasingly prevalent in mainstream media and popular culture. This major research project explores the ethos of female empowerment embedded in sex product marketing and the changing discourse and rhetoric present in the marketing of sex products in the early 20th century compared to modern day. Drawing upon feminist theories of marketing, popular culture and sexuality, this research project aims to expand on existing literature by researching how the ways in which sex product brands market and present themselves have changed from the physical to digital space. In particular, this project explores how modern brands continue to initiate new conversations about sex, gender, and sexuality and foster the community that was driven by the rise of sex toy</div><div>shops and parties in the 20th century.</div>

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Trans* Politics: Current Challenges and Contestations Regarding Bodies, Recognition, and Trans* Organising

Verloo

Vleuten

2020

PaG

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This thematic issue analyses trans* politics, and the problems and policies articulated by societal, political and legal actors in national and international contexts in Europe and Latin America. Trans* issues are at the heart of politics concerning sex and gender, because the sex binary ordering is producing the categories, identities, and related social relationships around which gender inequalities are constructed. Scholarship on trans* politics promises to bring more fundamental knowledge about how the gender binary organisation of our societies is (dis)functional, and is therefore relevant and beneficial for all gender and politics scholarship. Contestations around trans* issues continue developing, between state and non-state actors, transgender people and medical professionals, and also among and between social movements. This thematic issue is our contribution to dimensions of trans* politics that revolve around the issue of sexed and gendered bodies (the making and unmaking of “deviant” bodies, non-binary language about bodies, and voice given in bodily re/assignments), the limits of recognition (undermining of trans* agency, persistent binary thinking, and disconnect with material dimensions of gender justice), and the potential of trans* movements (processes and practices through which political claims are generated in the movement, a more forward looking and pro-active perspective on the possibility of alliances between the feminist and the trans* projects, and between the trans* project and the disability project, and alliances of movement actors with institutional power holders such as international courts).

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Displacing the Gender Binary Through Modes of Dis/Organizing: Sex Toys, Sexuality and Trans Politics

Cited by 3 publications

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Collective memory and trans history in the Italian context: Archival practices and the creation of the first trans archive in Italy

Collective memory and trans history in the Italian context: Archival practices and the creation of the first trans archive in Italy

Marketing sex products and sex-positive feminism: a comparative analysis of sex product marketing from the analogue to digital age

Trans* Politics: Current Challenges and Contestations Regarding Bodies, Recognition, and Trans* Organising

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