1st Edition

Tranimacies Intimate Links Between Animal and Trans* Studies

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

Tranimacies is a neologism that pushes and pulls together transness and animality so as to better germinate unruly, wily, perverse relationships between them, and their spawn. Through tranimacies the book aims at rethinking the linking of liberation struggles amongst former colonized peoples and lands, minoritized genders and sexualities, racially marked persons and non-human animals, and does... Read more

Introduction: Thinking Linking

Eliza Steinbock, Marianna Szczygielska, and Anthony Clair Wagner

Section I: Transhistories of the Present

1. Subclinical Routine #11, or "the True Story of a Miraculous Transformation"

Trish Salah

2. Impossibility of That

Eva Hayward and Che Gossett

3. Transcending the Human/Non-Human Divide. The Geo-politics and Body-politics of Being and Perception, and Decolonial Art

Madina Tlostanova

4. Precedence, Trans* and the Decolonial

Daniel B. Coleman and Rolando Vázquez

5. Implanting Plasticity into Sex and Trans/Gender. Animal and Child Metaphors in the History of Endocrinology

Jules Gill-Peterson

6. Hyenas and Hormones. Transpecies Encounters and the Traffic in Humanimals

Marianna Szczygielska

Section II: Lessons from the Bestiary

7. Ripple, Angel Quake

Trish Salah

8. Ego Hippo. The Subject as Metaphor

Florentin Félix Morin

9. Menagerie À Tranimals

Lindsay Kelley

10. Blurred

Marta Ostajewska

11. Monkey Business. Trans*, Animacy, and the Boundaries of Kind

Dylan McCarthy Blackston

12. Feral Biopolitics. Animal Bodies and/as Border Technologies

Hyaesin Yoon

13. Queer Affordances. The Human as Trans*Ecology

Tarsh Bates

Section III: #AnimatingEphemera

14. Croesus, at Least in Name

Trish Salah

15. Catties and T-Selfies. On the "I" and the "We" in Trans-Animal Cute Aesthetics

Eliza Steinbock

16. Biohacking Gender. Cyborgs, Coloniality, and the Pharmacopornographic Era

Hil Malatino

17. Trans*versal Animacies and the Mattering of Black Trans* Political Life

Abraham Weil

18. Trans Animisms

Abram J. Lewis

19. Interchanges

Myra Hird and Harlan Weaver

Biography

Eliza Steinbock, Assistant Professor Cultural Analysis, Leiden University, Netherlands. Author of Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change (Duke, 2019), co-editor of Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience (Routledge, 2020), project-leader of "The Critical Visitor" consortium, developing intersectional approaches for inclusive heritage (2020-2025).

Marianna Szczygielska, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany. Author of scholarly publications on the history of zoos, human-animal relations and queer studies, and feminist activism, co-editor of "Plantarium: Human-Vegetal Ecologies" special issue for Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience, (2019).

Anthony Clair Wagner, Senior Lecturer Design, Linnaeus University, Sweden. Author of several articles on trans, monstrosity and art, for example "Visible Monstrosity as Empowerment," in Transgender Studies Quarterly 2.2. Workshop leader of the Monster Workshop and artist.