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Critical Trans Studies in and beyond Europe Histories, Methods, and Institutions, 2021
This special issue interrogates the institutionalization of transgender studies at a time in whic... more This special issue interrogates the institutionalization of transgender studies at a time in which European citizens and newcomers are faced with a resurgence of fascisms. How is trans studies and theory vested with Eurocentric privilege, and how is it contested by various racialized, ethnicized, colonized and diasporic communities from outside and within Europe? What are the different terms/ways by which we should evaluate “trans studies” in the European context, where both pathologizing and depathologizing activity occurs? What narratives and case studies challenge the assumption that the ‘center’ of Europe initiates progressive historical change, which the ‘margins’ of Europe would follow? What kinds of hegemonies operate in European gender, sexuality and race studies that impact the ways interdisciplinary transgender studies has developed? This issue pays special attention to Post-Soviet and post-socialist nationalisms, the formation of the European Union and its funding schemes, to different mobilities and patterns of migration, and to language use within Nation-States and between them.
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CV, 2022
Proactive researcher with over € 1 million in acquisitions and teacher dedicated to inclusive cla... more Proactive researcher with over € 1 million in acquisitions and teacher dedicated to inclusive classrooms with 10+ years’ experience, currently supervising 8 PhDs. Co-edited and authored 3 books and 5 special issues on contemporary cultural production analyzing the intersecting dimensions of gender, sexuality, race, and ability. Published 35+ peer-reviewed articles and book chapters conjoining the fields of trans studies and visual culture studies. Currently project leader on a national consortium of fifteen public and private partners dedicated to an intersectional approach to the selection, preservation, and display practices of material culture, print and (audio-)visual media.
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This article responds to the phenomenon of Internet cats becoming pervasive in Web 2.0, while at ... more This article responds to the phenomenon of Internet cats becoming pervasive in Web 2.0, while at the same time digitally shared self-portraits, commonly called “selfies,” also circulate with extremely high frequency. The author tracks the efficacy of sharing selfies for trans/Two Spirit individuals such as artist Kiley May and in trans-centric hashtag campaigns. It shows that trans-animality in digital life can offer sovereign forms of subjectivity and engages response patterns that locate a trans point of regard. Further, it seeks to explain why so many different kinds of cuteness are shared in the intimate superpublics of online trans* communities. Building on classic texts in philosophical cat studies, such as from Jacques Derrida, the concept of the “inappropriate/d other,” and contemporary cuteness theories, the article argues that cute aesthetics provide a sentimental shield, can counter sexual indifference, and often enact a mode of resilience crucial for surviving in cultures that erase the existence of trans people of color.
Keywords: transgender portraiture; Internet cats; selfies; cute studies; indigenous sovereignty
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Tranimacies is a neologism that pushes and pulls together transness and animality so as to better... more Tranimacies is a neologism that pushes and pulls together transness and animality so as to better germinate unruly, wily, perverse relationships between them, and their spawn. The composite term of tranimacies enmeshes several everyday and scholarly concepts: trans- gender, animal, animacy, intimacies. This special issue’s bundle of theoretical and artistic works insists on the beating heart of embodied experiences and political pulses at the core of these concepts.
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This article concerns Anglo-American media coverage of trans lives and deaths. It investigates th... more This article concerns Anglo-American media coverage of trans lives and deaths. It investigates the discursive framing of trans people as only valuable in their death, both in the mediascape at large and repeated in the sharing of media items within trans communities. Underpinning the necropolitics of trans loss of life are a number of unsavory stigmatizing agendas that become startlingly exposed in two key transmedial moments in early 2014 by trans women of color, Laverne Cox and Janet Mock. eir interventions o er possibility models for answering the delicately, or forcefully, unasked question of “how does it feel to be a problem?” from the other world (W.E.B. Du Bois).
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Er is niet maar een transgender. DIVERSITEIT
Niet alle trans- genders zijn hetzelfde. Behandel ze... more Er is niet maar een transgender. DIVERSITEIT
Niet alle trans- genders zijn hetzelfde. Behandel ze dan ook niet zo, aldus Mir Marinus en Eliza Steinbock.
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Conversation about trans and intersex images with Jay Prosser and Del LaGrace Volcano with my int... more Conversation about trans and intersex images with Jay Prosser and Del LaGrace Volcano with my interlocution, focused on the photographic practice of Volcano.
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The Transgender Studies Reader 2 Edited by Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura, 2013
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Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions Edited by Sally Hines and Yvette Taylor (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences), 2012
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Keywords: transgender portraiture; Internet cats; selfies; cute studies; indigenous sovereignty
Niet alle trans- genders zijn hetzelfde. Behandel ze dan ook niet zo, aldus Mir Marinus en Eliza Steinbock.
Keywords: transgender portraiture; Internet cats; selfies; cute studies; indigenous sovereignty
Niet alle trans- genders zijn hetzelfde. Behandel ze dan ook niet zo, aldus Mir Marinus en Eliza Steinbock.
Newly-commissioned essays focus on the recent history of and current discussions within feminist art. Diverse in scope and style, these contributions range from essays on the questions and challenges of large sectors of artists, such as configurations of feminism and gender in post-Cold War Europe, to more focused conversations with women artists on Afropean decoloniality. Ranging from discussions of essentialism and feminist aesthetics to examinations of political activism and curatorial practice, the Companion informs and questions readers, introduces new concepts and fresh perspectives, and illustrates just how much more there is to discover within the realm of feminist art.