Trans Exploits
Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement
Published on 6. November 2019
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-4780-0066-2 (ISBN)
Description
In Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color. They argue for a radical rethinking of the policies and technologies of racial gendering and assimilative social programming that have divided LGBT communities and communities of color along the lines of gender, sexuality, class, immigration status, and ability. Focusing on performance, film/video, literature, digital media, and other forms of cultural expression and activism that track the displaced emergences of trans people of color, Chen highlights the complex and varied responses by trans communities to their social dispossession. Through these responses, trans of color cultural workers such as performance artist Yozmit, writer Janet Mock, and organizer Jennicet GutiErrez challenge dominating perceptions and institutions that kill, confine, police, and discipline trans people.
Reviews / Votes
"Trans Exploits is a valuable meditation on unsettling and redefining the relationship between trans of color culture and technologies of representation. . . . This text charts numerous points of entry for any reader interested in the converging histories of US expansion, dispossession, and detention." - Christopher Joseph Lee (TSQ) "The biggest strength of Trans Exploits lies in Chen's deft ability to unite such a range of examples. It is testament to the book's methodological intervention: trans exploits might thus be seen as a term to capture the different creative and strategic responses to racialized and gendered forms of power, surveillance, and regulation." - V Varun Chaudhry (GLQ) "Chen deploys trans of color as always in flux, as in relation with others, as a praxis of solidarity, and as refusal of all colonial and capitalist logics. . . . Remarkably, as Chen navigates the vast temporal and spatial frames, without conflating one context/community into another, they carefully historicize and contextualize each contemporary artist and their trans embodiments." - Nishant Upadhyay (American Quarterly)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4780-0066-2 (9781478000662)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
11/2019
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€188.99
Available for download
Person
Jian Neo Chen is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Racial Trans Technologies 1
1. Cultures: Performing Racial Trans Senses 30
2. Networks: TRANScoding Biogenetics and Orgasm in the Transnational Digital Economy 59
3. Memory: The Times and Territories of Trans Women of Color Becoming 75
4. Movement: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Digital Activisms and U.S. Transnational Empire 101
Conclusion. Trans Voice in the House 135
Notes 149
References 157
Index 173
Introduction. Racial Trans Technologies 1
1. Cultures: Performing Racial Trans Senses 30
2. Networks: TRANScoding Biogenetics and Orgasm in the Transnational Digital Economy 59
3. Memory: The Times and Territories of Trans Women of Color Becoming 75
4. Movement: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Digital Activisms and U.S. Transnational Empire 101
Conclusion. Trans Voice in the House 135
Notes 149
References 157
Index 173