Brief Review of Paisley Currah’s Sex is as Sex Does
Paisley Currah’s newest book-length analysis offers an incisive and well-executed blend of cultural studies and feminist legal theory for eager readers in Trans Studies. It is also a book that…
Keep readingSome Thoughts on Stuelke’s New Book
Patricia Stuelke’s newest book The Ruse of Repair, leaves me wondering—and without a clear answer, honestly—as to whether she bothered reading Eve Sedgwick’s “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading”…
Keep readingResearchNotes (Part 2): Allowing Discontinuity in the Archives
When I began to sort through the vast amount of scanned paper—looking over both the digital data and the material I could affordably print—I felt overwhelmed. It was not by…
Keep readingNotes on Research (Part One): Thoughts on Trans Narratives and Discontinuity
When I first arrived at the Trans Archives at the University of British Columbia at Victoria, I had hardly figured what was relevant; I was only four years into my…
Keep readingBeing Trans: An Open Letter to the Brooklyn College Community
November 3, 2020 To the Brooklyn College Community: On September 21st, 2020, I was notified that a Brooklyn College (BC) student (who had disenrolled from a course I am teaching…
Keep readingMy New Piece: Nonbinary Trans Identities
It’s finally out, published, and live with Oxford Research Encyclopedia. You can download the PDF here. If you have library access, there’s that method as well. Or you can email…
Keep readingThomas, July 8th 2019
There is loving you, before and after. Each is no small matter of their facts. Like before: as if within some singular place– dark, ancient, secret–poised a joy readying itself,…
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Sylvia, an Interview
(This is actually a song I’m composing. I wanted to share.) How did it feel back at Stonewall? Right. But you’d never have known. How many times did police take…
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Cool Breeze
The sound of a window-unit air conditioner. The soft buzz, almost mute; Caused by a filter that sifting through stuff, just stuff; The cool air pushes out. This sound is…
Keep readingA Mother’s Queer Art
Something like naiveté keeps me tethered to these scenes. But only something like. Once someone sees dying they cannot unlive it. It impresses upon the memory like a damp cloth…
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