Full Description
In Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color. They argue for a radical rethinking of the policies and technologies of racial gendering and assimilative social programming that have divided LGBT communities and communities of color along the lines of gender, sexuality, class, immigration status, and ability. Focusing on performance, film/video, literature, digital media, and other forms of cultural expression and activism that track the displaced emergences of trans people of color, Chen highlights the complex and varied responses by trans communities to their social dispossession. Through these responses, trans of color cultural workers such as performance artist Yozmit, writer Janet Mock, and organizer Jennicet GutiÉrrez challenge dominating perceptions and institutions that kill, confine, police, and discipline trans people.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Racial Trans Technologies 1
1. Cultures: Performing Racial Trans Senses 30
2. Networks: TRANScoding Biogenetics and Orgasm in the Transnational Digital Economy 59
3. Memory: The Times and Territories of Trans Women of Color Becoming 75
4. Movement: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Digital Activisms and U.S. Transnational Empire 101
Conclusion. Trans Voice in the House 135
Notes 149
References 157
Index 173
