Making Space for Trans Sexualities
Making Space for Trans Sexualities
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为跨性别者腾出空间
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发表时间:
2014
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2.6
通讯作者:
Carla A. Pfeffer
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作者:
Carla A. Pfeffer
Exciting work has begun to emerge addressing trans sexuality and partnerships. Miranda Bellwether’s (2010 ) inaugural zine, Fucking Trans Women (Issue #0), broke ground by centering trans women’s perspectives and experiences around sex and sexuality—including instructional guides on actual sexual practices. The quarterly print zine, Original Plumbing, edited by Amos Mac and Rocco Katastrophe, debuted in 2009 and expanded to the internet in 2010. Original Plumbing features first-person accounts and photography of the lives and experiences of trans men, including focus on sex and sexuality. Morty Diamond’s (2011 ) edited volume, Trans /Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Binary and Tracie O’Keefe and Katrina Fox’s ( 2008 ) edited volume, Trans People in Love, each make contributions to featuring the voices and experiences of trans people and their partners as they discuss sex and relationships. Tristan Taormino’s (2011) edited volume, Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica centers explicit narratives about trans sexuality. An expanding genre of trans-focused and trans-affirmative pornography has also emerged through Handbasket Productions, Morty Diamond Productions, Pink & White Productions, S.I.R. Video Productions, and T-Wood Pictures, to name just a handful. In academic scholarship on LGBTQ sexualities, however, “trans” too often remains present in acronym only 1 , with very real consequences for inclusion and exclusion both in terms of trans personhood as well as to moving studies of gender and sexual identities, and sexual practices forward (Moore, 2013 ). When trans sexuality does appear within academic scholarship, it most frequently focuses on forms of sexuality considered problematic, pathological, and/or connected to health risk (e.g., theoretical and empirical work on “autogynephilia” and trans sexual labor). The work in this volume engages with current debates existing within trans sexualities academic communities, including “autogynephilia,” in order to deconstruct and perhaps even reframe these debates. We do not shy away from provocation, the “crass,” or the materiality and corporeality of sex and sexuality.