Frankenstein’s Monsters Finding Home
This dreamy poem of trans~formation was written in an attempt to envision a trans materialist utopia. In these verses, we find ourselves at the beginning of this emergence;…
Tag: Trans*
Von der Analyse zur Utopie: Projekttutorium Transmaterialismus
Wie könnte eine von Transmaterialist*innen veränderte Gesellschaft aussehen? Auf diese Frage haben die Studierenden im studentischen Projekttutorium “Transmaterialism – an Introduction” im Somme…
Care Without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine – review
In Care Without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine, Christoph Hanssmann explores the evolution of trans therapeutics and health activism through ethnographic fieldwork conduc…
Reaktionärer Biologismus. Was rechte Akteure und ,radikale Feministinnen‘ verbindet
„Was ist eine Frau?“ Mit dieser scheinbar einfachen Frage agitieren gegenwärtig rechte Akteur*innen gegen trans Menschen und ihre Rechte und fordern eine „eindeutige“ biologische Bestimmung von Geschl…
Cuerpo dotado de útero sostenido a la altura conveniente, generalmente por una o varias patas, para diferentes usos
Read Time:11 Minute, 30 Second Cuando una persona está familiarizada con la manera en que los científicos sociales, no sin discusió…
El lobby que veía lobbies
Sospecho que este artículo puede ser bastante polémico. Una de las primeras quejas será quién soy yo para escribir esto, así que mejor aclararlo cuanto antes: una persona…
The Networked Animita: Transgender Remembrance on Social Media
Tomorrow, November 20th, the world will commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to collectively mourn and remember those who have died as a result of transphobia. Started…
J.K. Rowling und die Sehnsucht nach der heilen Welt der sauberen Kategorien
J.K. Rowling steht massiv in der Kritik: Die Autorin der Harry Potter-Romane hatte wiederholt Cisfrauen gegen Transfrauen ausgespielt. Nach Erscheinen des neuen Krimis Troubled Blood wird diskutiert, …
When Sex Becomes a Matter of the State: Peciagraphy as a Qualitative Method for Examining Legal Cases
For the past ten years, I have been conducting ethnographic research on the Federal Supreme Court’s (STF) decisions on sexual identities in the Brazilian legal system. Despite the…
Speaking out of the cistem, or How to say something outside of the binary?
By Alenka Mrakovčić We probably agree that language use is among the most taken-for-granted aspects of our daily lives. But what if within the language you use, yo…
The Role of Scientific Discourse in Chile’s Trans Rights Movement
También disponible en español aquí. On June 18, 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the removal of “transsexuality” (a term based on psychiatric diagnosis and maligned by…
Research in Pain
“Research in Pain” 1/4 “Research in Pain” 2/4 “Research in Pain” 3/4 “Research in Pain” 4/4 Sally Campbell Galman is an artist, associate professor of c…
Bolivia Prioritizes Transgender and Transsexual Human Rights
“People don’t die because they can’t have marriage” On 19 May 2016, the Chamber of Deputies of The Plurinational State of Bolivia passed Law Nº 807—The Gender Identity…