“We can conceive another history”: Trans activism around abortion rights in Argentina

The anti-feminism of anti-trans feminism

“…Building on this, she envisions a transfeminism that brings together the demand for a safe and dignified trans health care with broader feminist movements demanding reproductive rights. In a similar vein, Francisco Fernández Romero (2021) asks us to 'conceive of a different history' in his research on trans contributions to struggles for reproductive rights including abortion rights in Argentina. As EJ Renold et al (2017) point out through their analysis of qualitative data from a study conducted in England in 2015-2016, young people's expanded vocabularies of gender identity and expression come with critical reflexivity on their relationship to gender and sexuality and gendered and sexual rights.…”

Exhaustion, Exhausting Temporalities, and Young Trans People’s Everyday Lives in the UK

“…Meanwhile, narrative geographies of trans lives have been explored through such contexts and methods as "coming out" experiences (Marques 2020), autoethnographies (Doan 2010;Brice 2020Brice , 2021Arun-Pina 2021), and participatory research (Rooke 2010a(Rooke , 2010b, although few large-scale studies have conducted qualitative geographical research solely with trans people. This literature has adopted and developed a range of conceptual framings that emphasize how trans folk might experience such ways of being as (dis)belonging (Johnston 2018); embodiment, affect, and materiality (Jenzen 2017;Andrucki and Kaplan 2018;Todd 2021); liminality (March 2021); activisms, resistance, and explicitly trans spaces (Rooke 2010a;Brice 2020;Fern andez Romero 2021;Nash and Browne 2021;Todd 2021), transmobilities (Lubitow et al 2017); and power geometries (DasGupta et al 2021). Crucially, through intersectional analyses, this work has demonstrated that many spaces and times of everyday life can, for many trans people, become exhausting environments, radiate exhausting affects, and stimulate bodily states associated with exhaustion.…”

Los grises de la hechura somática de la salud y el bienestar: las prácticas médicas de la cirugía plástica frente a las demandas de mujeres cis en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

“…Algunos ponen el foco en los efectos nocivos de la patologización de las identidades y cuerpos trans, así como en el uso estratégico y situado de los diagnósticos (Coll-Planas et al, 2013;Edelman y Zimman, 2014;Heyes y Latham, 2018;Suess, 2014). Otros enfatizan en el uso de las biotecnologías de modificación corporal en tanto derecho (Fernández Romero, 2021;Frieder y Romero, 2014). En consonancia con los supuestos que sustentan esta investigación, según estos trabajos, las biotecnologías no sólo tienen un carácter normalizador, sino que también producen posibilidades dependiendo del dispositivo en el que se inscriban (Dellacasa, 2017;Farji Neer, 2020;Santana Jubells, 2019).…”