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Sep 233 min read

Trailblazers (2024, Sobia Bushra) is a film every queer should watch

Trailblazers is a documentary about Asian Purrrsuasion, the Welsh Ballroom community, and being a queer South Asian in Wales today.

Sep 1611 min read

Film

Orlando, Our Political Biography

Orlando, My Political Biography (2023, Paul B. Preciado) is a French documentary film that has just finished its limited run in UK cinemas.

Oct 4, 202334 min read

Trans Studies

Are TERFs Fascists?

A ‘TERF’ is a ‘Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist’. It is a controversial label used to denote proponents of a specific strain of transphob

'Our Lady of Anatolia': A Reflection on the Transliminal Spirituality of the Meter Theon

Aug 25, 202331 min read

Trans Studies

'Our Lady of Anatolia': A Reflection on the Transliminal Spirituality of the Meter Theon

Ought I to say something on this subject also? And shall I write about things not to be spoken of and divulge what ought not to be divul

Transgender Marxism: Personal Reading Thoughts

Aug 8, 20235 min read

Trans Studies

Transgender Marxism: Personal Reading Thoughts

by Fili Gena This essay first appeared on the Feminist Political Economy and Global Development course blog in June 2023. In the past...

Throwing a Brick Using Crip Time Theory : An Essay on the Politics of Disability and Temporality

Mar 25, 202313 min read

Trans Studies

Throwing a Brick Using Crip Time Theory : An Essay on the Politics of Disability and Temporality

by Charlie Chamber-Randell (@8unnyteef) CHECK THEIR PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT T BOY SWAG How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank...

Are TERFs Fascists? Part 2: Conspiracy and Patriarchy

Feb 22, 202314 min read

Trans Studies

Are TERFs Fascists? Part 2: Conspiracy and Patriarchy

Most queerphobic propaganda centres around framing queer people as dangerous, or the fear of some sort of forced queer assimilation of...

Where are All the Cis Patients in Gender Identity Clinics?

Dec 4, 202213 min read

Trans Studies

Where are All the Cis Patients in Gender Identity Clinics?

The objective of the trans revolutionary struggle isn’t social tolerance for gender non-normativity, but rather the liberation from gender..

Tiresias, Hera, Zeus: a Trans* Philosophical Reading

Nov 17, 202215 min read

Trans Studies

Tiresias, Hera, Zeus: a Trans* Philosophical Reading

Tiresias, the blind prophet of Apollo of the ancient Greek mythological cycle of Oedipus, is regarded as one the first transgender character

We don’t “look cis”, you cis-look at us!

Oct 1, 20228 min read

Trans Studies

We don’t “look cis”, you cis-look at us!

By Michel (@blu.issima) Content note: vague talk of gender-based violence, transness, transphobia and trauma This article, structured...

Jul 7, 20228 min read

Trans Studies

Surrealism and Beyond Gender

I’ve been wanting to write this for a little while but it is quite a heavy and complex topic so I won’t be diving into too much detail on th

Queer Liberation is Human Liberation: A Breakdown

Jun 23, 202210 min read

Trans Studies

Queer Liberation is Human Liberation: A Breakdown

By J. S. Gupta The slogan of the day is “Trans Rights are Human Rights”. It is a slogan spoken in support of trans liberation and in...

THE POVERTY OF BODIES: Commodities, Fetishism, and Nationalism

Jun 3, 202225 min read

Trans Studies

THE POVERTY OF BODIES: Commodities, Fetishism, and Nationalism

In this essay we will discuss the issue of the body in relation to nationalistic ideology and human rights, with a focus on the US...

Binary Gendered Biology and its Discontents

May 5, 202223 min read

Trans Studies

Binary Gendered Biology and its Discontents

The traditional arguments that transphobes use to justify their beliefs typically find their (apparent) strength through their appeal to...

Questioning the Definition of (Cis/Trans)Gender

May 3, 20223 min read

Trans Studies

Questioning the Definition of (Cis/Trans)Gender

Even though the word ‘trans’ ‘bear[s] a myriad of divergent meanings, for the many people who use them,’[1] transgender studies scholars...

How is Gender Non-Normativity Othered in Medieval Art?

Jan 21, 202217 min read

Trans Studies

How is Gender Non-Normativity Othered in Medieval Art?

In this essay, I will be referencing Marvels of the East, Mappa Mundi, and The Book of John Mandeville as examples of how non-normative gend

How do Foucault's Lectures on Abnormality Further 'Abnormalise' Marin le Marcis or 'Hermaphrodites'?

Jan 20, 202223 min read

Trans Studies

How do Foucault's Lectures on Abnormality Further 'Abnormalise' Marin le Marcis or 'Hermaphrodites'?

Throughout this essay, I will be analysing a lecture of Foucault’s on ‘abnormality’ in reflection of Marin le Marcis. I will attempt to...

Conflating LGBTQIA+ with Trans: TERF Island and Transphobia at UK Universities

Jan 19, 20224 min read

Trans Studies

Conflating LGBTQIA+ with Trans: TERF Island and Transphobia at UK Universities

In case you’re not aware, trans-positive academics and related nerds have dubbed the UK ‘TERF Island’ because of our notoriously...

Jan 17, 20224 min read

Trans Studies

Reading List for (Pseudo)Students

Disclaimer: This reading list will be in a state of constant change, much like ourselves (and my gender lol). Films (Films with an...

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A Transgender Analysis of Mario Mieli's Towards a Gay Communism