Trap door : trans cultural production and the politics of visibilty / edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton.
Contributor(s): Gossett, Reina [editor.] | Stanley, Eric A [editor.] | Burton, Johanna [editor.]
Series: Critical anthologies in art and culture: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]Description: xxvi, 419 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43536ISBN: 9780262036603 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Gender identity in art | Transgender people in popular culture | Transgender people in art | Transgender people -- Social conditions | Art and DesignDDC classification: 306.76 TRA LOC classification: NX650.G44 | T73 2017Summary: The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of colour) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. 'Trap Door' grapples with these contradictions. The essays, conversations, and dossiers gathered here delve into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality.
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Essays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture.
The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. Trap Door grapples with these contradictions.
The essays, conversations, and dossiers gathered here delve into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered "doors"--entrances to visibility and recognition--that are actually "traps," accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms. The volume speculates about a third term, perhaps uniquely suited for our time: the trapdoor, neither entrance nor exit, but a secret passageway leading elsewhere . Trap Door begins a conversation that extends through and beyond trans culture, showing how these issues have relevance for anyone invested in the ethics of visual culture.
Contributors
Lexi Adsit, Sara Ahmed, Nicole Archer, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Johanna Burton, micha cárdenas, Mel Y. Chen, Grace Dunham, Treva Ellison, Sydney Freeland, Che Gossett, Reina Gossett, Stamatina Gregory, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Robert Hamblin, Eva Hayward, Juliana Huxtable, Yve Laris Cohen, Abram J. Lewis, Heather Love, Park McArthur, CeCe McDonald, Toshio Meronek, Fred Moten, Tavia Nyong'o, Morgan M. Page, Roy Pérez, Dean Spade, Eric A. Stanley, Jeannine Tang, Wu Tsang, Jeanne Vaccaro, Chris E. Vargas, Geo Wyeth, Kalaniopua Young, Constantina Zavitsanos
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of colour) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. 'Trap Door' grapples with these contradictions. The essays, conversations, and dossiers gathered here delve into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Series Preface (p. ix)
- Director's Foreword (p. xi)
- Known Unknowns: An Introduction to Trap Door Reina Gossett (p. xv)
- The Labor of Werqing It: The Performance and Protest Strategies of Sir Lady Java (p. 1)
- Cautious Living: Black Trans Women and the Politics of Documentation (p. 23)
- Existing in the World: Blackness at the Edge of Trans Visibility (p. 39)
- Trans History in a Moment of Danger: Organizing Within and Beyond "Visibility" in the 1970s (p. 57)
- Out of Obscurity: Trans Resistance, 1969-2016 (p. 91)
- Introducing the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art (p. 121)
- One from the Vaults: Gossip, Access, and Trans History-Telling (p. 135)
- Everywhere Archives: Transgendering, Trans Asians, and the Internet (p. 147)
- Dark Shimmers: The Rhythm of Necropolitical Affect in Digital Media (p. 161)
- Blackness and the Trouble of Trans Visibility (p. 183)
- Representation and Its Limits (p. 191)
- The Last Extremists? (p. 201)
- An Affinity of Hammers (p. 221)
- The Guild of the Brave Poor Things (p. 235)
- Spiderwomen (p. 255)
- Proximity: On the Work of Mark Aguhar (p. 281)
- Dynamic Static (p. 293)
- Models of Futurity (p. 321)
- All Terror, All Beauty (p. 339)
- Canonical Undoings: Notes on Trans Art and Archives (p. 349)
- Contemporary Art and Critical Transgender Infrastructures (p. 363)
- Publication History (p. 393)
- Contributors (p. 395)
- Board of Trustees (p. 403)
- Index (p. 405)
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