My Words to Victor Frankenstein. Above the Village of Chamounix - Performing Transgender Rage

Stryker, Susan

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“…Transgender understood as such is attributed to Leslie Feinberg (1992. See also Stryker 1994, Stryker 2006, Whittle 2000 and grounds Thanem's (2011: 192) categorisation of transgender people as 'involv[ing] female-to-male (FtM) and male-to-female (MtF) transitioning as well as non-identification with a particular gender or sex, it includes transvestites, transsexuals, drag kings, drag queens, intersexuals, third genderists, genderqueers and agenderists' and is in keeping with other academics (Beemyn and Rankin, 2011;Davidson, 2007;Johnson, 2013;Morgan and Stevens, 2008;and Riggle et al, 2011). Such a categorisation may be problematic however as it potentially conflates non-conforming sexualities with sex/gender (Valentine, 2004) -for example, many (but not all) drag queens identify as gay men and do not question their birth assigned sex/gender.…”

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“…iii The 1968 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association lists and defines transvestitism as a sexual deviation. iv See Footnote 2 in Stryker (1994) for more on this. v 2015 UK Ministry of Justice response to a petition to the UK parliament to recognise non-binary identities.…”

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“…It drew on guidance from TransMediaWatch.org to discuss how we are often not merely marginalised but erased by the popular media before it suggested how journalists should label and name us. Transgender people have a problematic history with both the media and academic research (Stryker, 1994;Capuzza, 2014. Hale andStone [1997] suggests rules for academics who wish to research transgender people).…”

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This girl’s life: An autoethnography

O’Shea¹

2017

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This essay seeks to add to a growing awareness of transgender lives and narratives in management and organisational studies. It presents an often visceral and emotive autoethnographical account of the experience of being a non-binary transsexual in the United Kingdom to question whether it is possible to think gender without invoking the heterosexual matrix and being held to account by it. It also asks what may need to be done so that the abject and marginalised in society may have liveable lives rather than an otherwise unliveable life resulting from that matrix. It argues that transgender is often conflated in management research theoretically as queer or queer's evil twin where the latter concept reduces trans lives to rigid, polarised positions in the matrix and stereotypes. The essay concludes by asking an open question, how we may organise so as to make lives liveable?

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O’Shea¹

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“…The wider the distance from idealized binarism, the more abjected the actual bodyself is considered. As remarked by trans scholarship, the distance with normative body is so broad that, in part, limits of gender/sex binarism can be drawn at the expense of abjectifying transgender (see Halberstam, 1995;Stryker, 2006). Transgender would constitute an example of abjection per se, as long as no correspondence at all between sex and gender can be socially perceived.…”

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Abjection and alterity in the imagining of transgender in physical education and sport: a pedagogical approach in higher education

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Fuentes-Miguel

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Sport, Education and Society

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In physical education (PE) and sports there is little theoretical and empirical knowledge about transgender people, and particularly, on how they are and can be imagined within this context. In this paper, we present and analyze a pedagogical activity based on the reading and discussion of a fictional representation of a transgender person within a group of undergraduate students of Sport Sciences. Our theoretical frame situates abjection and alterity as opposing concepts on a continuum. Results show several ways in which a transgender person is imagined by students, as well as constraints and possibilities for the pedagogical proposal to promote moral imagining of transgender. Students situated in abjection justify their rejection of transgender persons, bringing up compassion (such as pity), genitalization, symbolic violence and stigmatization of transgender persons. The realm between abjection and alterity is characterized by tolerance of different normalities, as well as linguistic constraints hindering the acceptance of transgender people. In alterity, students acknowledge their limited ability to totally imagine what it is like to be transgender, and also, their will to encounter transgender persons face-to-face. Although results of this experience should not be interpreted in a prescriptive way, they show different ways to imagine transgender people in the domain of PE and sports, as well as the importance of considering the ethics of alterity as a means to advance in the moral imagining of transgender persons and, in general, of the distant Other.

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“…My queer reading of the drone swarm is also influenced by the ways in which forms of animal and otherwise non-human life have played a key role in queer theorising in recent years. The monstrous, abjected non-human and more-than-human have been sites of appropriation for queer and trans theorising, such as Susan Stryker's (1994;although see Stryker, 2015) trans-theory invocation of Frankenstein, Halberstam's (2011) inspiration by animated animals, and Chen's (2012) exploration of animality, race and queerness, among others.…”

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Drones, Swarms and Becoming-Insect: Feminist Utopias and Posthuman Politics

Wilcox¹

2017

Feminist Review

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Insects and 'the swarm' as metaphors and objects of research have inspired works in the genres of science fiction and horror; social and political theorists; and the development of war-fighting technologies such as 'drone swarms', which function as robot/insect hybrids. Contemporary developments suggest that the future of warfare will not be 'robots' as technological, individualised substitutions for idealised (masculine) warfighters, but warfighters understood as swarms: insect metaphors for non-centrally organised problem-solvers that will become technologies of racialisation. As such, contemporary feminist analysis requires an analysis of the politics of life and death in the insect and the swarm, which, following Braidotti (2002), cannot be assumed to be a mere metaphor or representation of political life, but an animating materialist logic. The swarm is not only a metaphor but also a central mode of biopolitical and necropolitical war, with the 'terrorist' enemy represented as swarmlike as well. In analysing the relations of assemblage and antagonism in the war ontologies of the drone swarm, I seek inspiration from what Hayles (1999, p. 47) describes as a double vision that 'looks simultaneously at the power of simulation and at the materialities that produce it'. I discuss various representations and manifestations of swarms and insect life in science/speculative fiction, from various presentations of the 'Borg' in

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My Words to Victor Frankenstein. Above the Village of Chamounix - Performing Transgender Rage

Abstract: The following work is a textual adaptation of a performance piece originally presented at "Rage Across the Disciplines," an arts, humanities, and social sciences conference held June 10-12,

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This girl’s life: An autoethnography

This girl’s life: An autoethnography

Abjection and alterity in the imagining of transgender in physical education and sport: a pedagogical approach in higher education

Drones, Swarms and Becoming-Insect: Feminist Utopias and Posthuman Politics

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