No Place Like Home: The Transgendered Narrative of Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues

Prosser, Jay

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“…The act of being un-homed brings together the intersectional threads of race and gender identity. The longing for the "Coming Home Story" of transgender identity (Prosser 1995), that is transition as a way of "coming home" to the "correct" gender identity that was denied the subject from birth, and David Eng's understanding of the impossibility of home for the Asian American diaspora converge here. For Eng, "Suspended between departure and arrival, Asian Americans remain permanently disenfranchised from home, relegated to a nostalgic sense of its loss or to an optative sense of its unattainability" (Eng,"Out Here" 31).…”

Section: Subverting Transnormativity: Rage and Resilience In Kim Fu'smentioning

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Subverting Transnormativity: Rage and Resilience in Kim Fu’s <em>For Today I Am a Boy</em>

Ruthven¹

2019

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Section: Subverting Transnormativity: Rage and Resilience In Kim Fu'smentioning

confidence: 89%

Subverting Transnormativity: Rage and Resilience in Kim Fu’s <em>For Today I Am a Boy</em>

Ruthven¹

2019

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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“…While it is impossible to forget the everyday challenges and violence to which transpeople are continually subjected, transpeople often find it important to work to further strengthen both personal and community efforts. As Prosser (1995) It's to say, yes, I'm an old, balding, boring man, but I am also a queer. I had a whole life before this life, and I fought for the right to become who I am…sometimes, activism is just living simply and telling the truth.…”

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Survival. Activism. Feminism?: Exploring the Lives of Trans* Individuals in Chicago

Stewart

2016

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trans individuals are destroying feminism by succumbing to the greater forces of the patriarchy and by opting for surgery, thus conforming to normative ideas of sex and gender. Jeffreys is not alone in her views. Janice Raymond (1994, 2015) also maintains that trans individuals work either as male-to-females (MTFs) to uphold stereotypes of femininity and womanhood, or as female-to-males (FTMs) to join the ranks of the oppressors, support the patriarchy, and embrace hegemonic masculinity. Both Jeffreys and Raymond conclude that sex/gender is fixed by genitals at birth and thus deny trans individuals their right to move beyond the identities that they were assigned at birth. Ironically, a paradox is created by these radical lesbians feminist theorists, who deny trans individuals the right to define their own lives and control their own bodies. Such essentialist discourse, however, fails to recognize the oppression, persecution, and violence to which trans individuals are subjected because they do not conform to the sex that they were assigned at birth. Jeffreys (1997) also claims there is an emergency and that the human rights of those who are now identifying as trans are being violated. These critiques are not only troubling to me, as a self-identified lesbian feminist, but are also illogical and transphobic. My research, with trans identified individuals in Chicago, presents a different story and will show another side of the complex relationship between trans and lesbian feminist communities. When considering the lives of my research participants, another agenda, counter to that of what is assumed by Jeffreys and Raymond, emerges and shows how trans individuals are moving forward to embrace themselves and their communities, while also establishing, or in some cases maintaining, a relationship with feminist values and politics. In this article, I will discuss and further complicate the complex relationship between trans and lesbian feminist communities. I will begin with a discussion of the history of radical lesbian feminist discourse, specifically looking at how Jeffreys and Raymond have made a

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“…Jay Prosser argues that Jess' 'stoneness' primarily refers to her 'sexual untouchability', demonstrated by the difficulty which she experiences throughout the novel in her sexual experiences with women. 20 However, Feinberg makes it clear that this issue is at least partly the result of Jess' inability to properly articulate her feelings, especially in close relationships with a high degree of emotional intimacy: Sometimes I feel like I'm choking to death on what I'm feeling. I need to talk and I don't even know how.…”

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Getting under performance's skin: epigenetics and gender performativity

Osborne

2015

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Getting under performance's skin: epigenetics and gender performativityThis article offers a re-examination of Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity (as described in her influential 1990 work Gender Trouble) in the light of recent epigenetic discoveries. Epigenetics is the study of molecular mechanisms that modify the manner in which DNA sequences are expressed while leaving the sequence itself intact. These processes can be influenced by environmental factors, demonstrating how our environment can affect us at the cellular level with important consequences for the ways in which we think about behaviour, gender and identity. Through an exploration of a range of scientific papers (in conjunction with an epigenetic reading of Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues), this article asks if epigenetics could provide a mechanism through which gender performance achieves some degree of biological embodiment. Although current research can offer a basis for some interesting speculation, it is also clear that such a question cannot yet be answered. Fortunately, new lines of investigation could one day provide us with a clearer idea of the relationship between gender performance and epigenetics.

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No Place Like Home: The Transgendered Narrative of Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues

Cited by 84 publications

References 9 publications

Subverting Transnormativity: Rage and Resilience in Kim Fu’s <em>For Today I Am a Boy</em>

Subverting Transnormativity: Rage and Resilience in Kim Fu’s <em>For Today I Am a Boy</em>

Survival. Activism. Feminism?: Exploring the Lives of Trans* Individuals in Chicago

Getting under performance's skin: epigenetics and gender performativity

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