politics
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Some 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”…
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Open Letter to the NMSU Provost’s Office
“The invitation [to speak] represents, at best, a willful ignorance. It is, at worst, a tacit acceptance of the kinds of transphobic, regressive, and racially problematic content…in the name of ‘reasonable debate.'”
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Letter to the Editor, Las Cruces Sun News
On Matt Walsh’s Talk at NMSU Text of Clipping I am writing to register my dismay and disappointment that NMSU, my alma mater, is offering a platform for political commentator Matt Walsh. I am confident that the administration’s decision extends a desire to enlarge the conversation about our historical present. But the invitation extended to…
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An Old Story by an Older Name
Writing about Homophobia: Or, Would I have Submitted a Different Take? [Spoiler Alert: Yes] Text from Clipping [In Progress] An online report posted on Sunday by the Las Cruces Sun-News stated that, after being asked to leave the student union cafeteria for disorderly conduct, an NMSU basketball player [name redacted] called an NMSU employee a…
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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 excels at making otherwise technical legal and theoretical jargon accessible and, in many moments, relatable. And this, I believe, is a welcome change from a…
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ResearchNotes (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 the sheer amount of data, nor the reading I would have to undertake. I still had to locate an argument, suture disparate texts together, and…
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Notes 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 doctoral program at the time. I was eager for so many reasons. There was, of course, the standpoint of research. I needed data for my…
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Being 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 this semester) contacted Campus Reform (CR), a self-touted media outlet for so-called “college news.” The organization’s spokesperson had reached out to BC’s administration as a…
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My 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 me and I can send you a copy gratis.
The Trans Ordinary 