2016

DOI: 10.5324/njsts.v3i1.2156

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Preciado. Testo junkie: sex, drugs, and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era

Karmele Mendoza Pérez¹

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The Truth About Sex: Trans Desire As De-eroticized or Hypers...1

Do-it-yourself Chemical Sexualities1

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“…However, in trans classics and cult works, such as Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (Preciado, 2013), trans writer Paul Preciado, building on Foucault, attempts to do precisely this. That is, to call for a revolutionary takeover of the means of production that produce and regulate 'gender, sex and race' (Preciado, 2013: 352).…”

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Transfeminine letter clubs, community care and the radical politics of the erotic

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2023

European Journal of Women's Studies

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This essay examines trans feminine community-building and care in the context of desire and the erotic as forms of political praxis. The theoretical core of the text builds on Audre Lorde’s broad, poetic use of the erotic as well as José Muñoz’s aesthetic and utopian notion of queer future. I argue that Lorde and Muñoz provide important tools for theorizing the erotic as a politically subversive and utopian form of care in the contemporary political setting of rising anti-genderism, moral conservativism and neo-fascism. The essay begins though a brief, historical examination of the ways in which transgender sexuality, desire and the erotic have come to be a neglected and contested topic in both academic and clinical research, despite what Michel Foucault defines as a ‘discursive explosion’ on the truth about sex and sexuality in modernity. I will then point out historical counter examples of transfeminine, transvestite and cross-dresser community-building in which care is intimately linked to the erotic in Lorde’s sense of the term. Finally, I argue that trans desire and the erotic should be understood as radically political in Muñoz’s sense of utopian imagining of a future yet to be made.

“…However, in trans classics and cult works, such as Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (Preciado, 2013), trans writer Paul Preciado, building on Foucault, attempts to do precisely this. That is, to call for a revolutionary takeover of the means of production that produce and regulate 'gender, sex and race' (Preciado, 2013: 352).…”

Section: The Truth About Sex: Trans Desire As De-eroticized or Hypers...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Transfeminine letter clubs, community care and the radical politics of the erotic

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2023

European Journal of Women's Studies

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This essay examines trans feminine community-building and care in the context of desire and the erotic as forms of political praxis. The theoretical core of the text builds on Audre Lorde’s broad, poetic use of the erotic as well as José Muñoz’s aesthetic and utopian notion of queer future. I argue that Lorde and Muñoz provide important tools for theorizing the erotic as a politically subversive and utopian form of care in the contemporary political setting of rising anti-genderism, moral conservativism and neo-fascism. The essay begins though a brief, historical examination of the ways in which transgender sexuality, desire and the erotic have come to be a neglected and contested topic in both academic and clinical research, despite what Michel Foucault defines as a ‘discursive explosion’ on the truth about sex and sexuality in modernity. I will then point out historical counter examples of transfeminine, transvestite and cross-dresser community-building in which care is intimately linked to the erotic in Lorde’s sense of the term. Finally, I argue that trans desire and the erotic should be understood as radically political in Muñoz’s sense of utopian imagining of a future yet to be made.

“…They tried out different dosing strategies and different brands and compared results, took advice from friends, shared their personal experiences with others. Some of our respondents were "inspired" by circulating (often pornographic) images, which present hyperfeminine and/or hypermasculine sexualities (Jackson 2009;Preciado 2013).…”

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Chemical Youth

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Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

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“…However, as both Race (2009) and Preciado (2013) also argue, the emergence of a new, privatised and self-managed, biochemical theatre of biopolitical operations did not mark the end of queer communities and queer modes of futuring. What it did, instead, was to create the conditions for queerness and community to be differently thought and projected into the future through new forms of what Race describes as 'experimental and material engagements with the circumstances of life ' (2009, 31).…”

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Breeding futures: masculinity and the ethics of CUMmunion in Treasure Island Media’sViral Loads

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The version presented here may differ from the published version. If citing, you are advised to consult the published version for pagination, volume/issue and date of publication Breeding Futures: Masculinity and the Ethics of CUMmunion in Treasure Island Media's Viral Loads * In a recent interview, pornographer Paul Morris claimed his studio, Treasure Island Media (TIM), is a 'laboratory exploring the vital sexual symbiosis of human and viral DNA.' Departing from that claim, I examine his porn text Viral Loads to explore its implications for thinking future-orientated masculinities and community formations. I claim that Viral Loads forces us to rethink modern ideals of individual autonomy and bodily integrity and alludes to alternative community formations enacted not by holding something in common but by relentlessly giving and exchanging foreign matter. By depicting 'loads'circulating between bodies posited as interfaces, Viral Loads gives us a porous and impure form of masculinity. In so doing, it breeds a queer future in which community ethics becomes an ethics of cummunion, a cummoning with strangers that is offered as an alternative to the politics of self and other.

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