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TransNarratives
Scholarly and Creative Works on Transgender Experience
Edited by Kristi Carter, James Brunton
August 2021
Print ISBN: 9780889616226
Overview
Filling a gap in literature and fulfilling the need for trans-focused work, TransNarratives is an interdisciplinary collection featuring narratives of transgender experiences, providing a sourcebook of a range of trans perspectives, writing styles, and trans methodological fields of applicability. The works included transcend disciplinary boundaries in the pursuit of academic knowledge and creativity, actively deconstructing binaries wherever they begin to appear, whether with regard to gender, race, ability, or sexuality, or to the binary divisions that can sometimes separate academic and creative production.
Calling attention to transgender writers, this unique and timely text showcases a wide variety of material, including scholarship from multi- and interdisciplinary transgender perspectives, poetry and fiction that foregrounds trans experience, and first-person transgender narratives. The essays, poems, and stories cover a range of topics relevant to transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary experiences, across time, geographic location, and cultures. An important addition to the field, this groundbreaking text will serve as an essential collection of works for students and researchers in transgender studies, queer studies, and gender studies.
FEATURES
- provides accessible, thematically wide-ranging, and stylistically diverse writings, including scholarship from multi- and interdisciplinary transgender perspectives
- includes multi-generational perspectives and non-able-bodied subjectivities
- uniquely formatted to support a dialogue between creative and scholarly work
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section I: Trans-Selves/Trans-Origins
Chapter 1 “My whole life has been coming out of one closet of another:” Narratives of transgender youth in Cape Breton Regional Municipality
Leigh Potvin, Christie Ragan, and Emily Root
Chapter 2 The Fool’s Journey to Telling Transness
AJ Ripley
Chapter 3 TRANSitioning Out of the Army
Thai Thao Nguyen
Chapter 4 How a Flat Chest Helped Me Fit into a Dress
Markus “Star” Harwood-Jones
Chapter 5 Transliminality: Black Transfemmes and the Limit of Visibility Politics
Nathan Alexander Moore
Chapter 6 (Philosophical) Tales of the Unexpected: Pre-transition and Post-transition Selves
Stephanie Kapusta
Section II: Community and Interpersonal Relationships
Chapter 7 Navigating Gender Together
Gemma M. Hickey and Vicki S. Hallett
Chapter 8 Transscript
Tamara and Jay Austin
Chapter 9 Trans Love: An In-depth Examination of Intimate Relationships
Alana Rister and Kathy McCleaf
Chapter 10 “A Tale of Two Worlds,” “Sorry You Have Been Deleted,” and “I Was Going to Tell You Something But Then I Forgot”
Joanna C. Valente
Chapter 11 The Stone Prince and the Lost Boi: Crossing the Boundaries of Gender and Generation
Kate Krug and Eli Quirk
Chapter 12 Dancing on Petals
Rohini Banerjee
Section III: Page, Stage, and Screen
Chapter 13 “One of the Guys”: Straightening Degrassi's Adam Torres
Evan Vipond
Chapter 14 Measure of a (Wo)Man: Gender Transformation in Early Christian and Medieval Narrative Traditions
Angela Bolen
Chapter 15 “I can find no other words to express my meaning”: Critically Reading the Stories of Lili Elbe
Markus “Star” Harwood-Jones
Chapter 16 Excerpt from Gender/Genre
Erin M. Bertram
Chapter 17 Trans*ed and Latined: Representation and the Possibilities of Excess
D. Bustillo
Chapter 18 #TransTwitter: Affect, Transnarratives, and Gender Euphoria
Hannah K. Grabowski
Chapter 19 What I Wanted to Wear
Anna Kozak
Chapter 20 The Joke Is, It's Not a Joke: Revolution Through Laughter in the Work of Annie Danger
Jesse O’Rear
Section IV: Interventions and Activism
Chapter 21 My Gender is Crip: Engaging the Experience of being Trans and Disabled
Niamh Timmons
Chapter 22 Informed Consent: Transmasculine People and the Reification of Hegemonic Masculinity
Benjamin C. Kennedy
Chapter 23 /[404 – Name Not Found], The Story of the [Error] Ant
Emory James Edwards
Chapter 24 Languaging a Future for Lovepersons: Speculative Strategies Towards Radical Trans/cendence
Elæ Moss
Chapter 25 Thank You Notes: Trans, Non-Binary, and Two-Spirit Poetic Interventions into the Academy’s Use of Acknowledgements
Frances O’Shaughnessy
Chapter 26 The “New” White Feminism: Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists and the Problem of Biological Determinism in Feminist Theory
Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa
Chapter 27 Intersectional Feminism as a Framework for Policy Change: An Equitable Approach to Title IX
Sarah Simmons
Glossary of Terms
About the Editors
About the Contributors
