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{"title":"Trans CUNY Zine","authors":"Elvis Bakaitis","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.a910094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910094","url":null,"abstract":"Trans CUNY Zine Elvis Bakaitis (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Elvis Bakaitis. Trans CUNY Zine, 2023. Pen and ink. [End Page 289] Click for larger view View full resolution Elvis Bakaitis. Trans CUNY Zine, 2023. Pen and ink. [End Page 290] Click for larger view View full resolution Elvis Bakaitis. Trans CUNY Zine, 2023. Pen and ink. [End Page 291] Elvis Bakaitis Elvis Bakaitis is the Head of Reference at the CUNY Graduate Center. They are proud to serve on the University LGBTQ Council, where they engage in activism around queer/trans visibility issues across 25 campuses in New York City. Elvis is the author of many zines, is a queer herstory educator, and served as the PI for a 2020 Mellon Foundation grant awarded to the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Copyright © 2023 Elvis Bakaitis","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender Transgressions: Nonbinary Spaces in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Ancient China","authors":"Lou Rich","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.a910071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910071","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Nonbinary presentations, behaviors, and spaces have been observed transculturally throughout history. Whilst historical manifestations differ from our modern notions of nonbinary, this article examines instances of nonbinary transgressions that may have been previously consigned to homoerotic histories. This article deploys such a nonbinary lens to discuss instances that relate to the body, gender presentations, social roles, and language, for the purpose of problematizing both notions of trans-gender history and binary assumptions of gender as untransmutable and immutable.","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nocturne with hysterectomy","authors":"Kay Ulanday Barrett","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.a910099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910099","url":null,"abstract":"Nocturne with hysterectomy Kay Ulanday Barrett (bio) how you paused when the nurse said your name, notyour real name, but the one lodged onto your government ID.where you correct her, slurred and fevered, claim your pain level is a seven, and she tells you you’ll slide into the white cove fora CT scan. the drip in your veins allot enough energy not to wince.you hold your breath. they record your pelvis, tell you that everything will be hot, your toes spark star fire. don’t worry it’s temporary</verse-line>is a saying you have heard & squint at. are you peeing on yourself?did the nurse use the wrong pronouns again? you laugh at this new privilege—how your white nurse will have to pick up after brown piss.how the rust you make is homegrown, how you can’t tell whois the butcher anymore. your own uterus after all asked to be bent, did you sling the slaughter? you imagine warmth, the fish roasted by yourmother’s hands, how seafood is the joke metaphor between our legs.after the scalpel, what will you smell like now? never mind this pandemic how your partner is informed she cannot go any further, she cannot sitwith you in re-wiring, your dizziness lacquered by less organs.Two weeks before: emergent. The report dictated, the field of your abdomen appeared a rorschach of cells, both my parents diedof cancer. You confess this inheritance of blooms. Ovaries can stay,the surgeon repeated. To not cry at the cephalopod shaped clots, shells of who you once were. To peel back sheets as they contortcolors you didn’t know you had in you. To not have the face of anyoneon the pamphlets. To know you are again, your own manual. [End Page 307] Kay Ulanday Barrett Named one of “9 Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Writers You Should Know” by Vogue, Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry by Foundation for Contemporary Arts, winner of a 2022 Tin House Next Book Residency, and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell. Their second book, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020), received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award from the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They can be reached at info@kaybarrett.net. Copyright © 2023 Kay Ulanday Barrett","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"O Loveland","authors":"Ximena Keogh Serrano","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.a910096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910096","url":null,"abstract":"O Loveland Ximena Keogh Serrano (bio) AttachmentsSuch wild, precious, unruly things Say, for example, this form of attachment—to a person a country a piece of paper I laugh at the thought, then note how we just want a place to be held or a place to be possible Because humans, like countries, share the principle of namingas a constituent for being born,paper participates in the theatre of emergence—where my body equals letters, spaces, wordswhich is not to say that the letters, spaces, and words equal my body, No. Countries, bodies, paper—all such tragic scenes, ripewith illusions, texts & pretexts, discipline(d), so ripewith possibility No wonder we get attachedWe just want a place to be held Why else would I enter this page?Having already given up on the othersI am seeking a placeto be possible [End Page 301] Ximena Keogh Serrano Ximena Keogh Serrano is a poet and scholar of Latin American and U.S. Latinx literary and cultural studies. Her research and writing move across genres of literary criticism, visual culture, and studies in gender and sexuality. She is an assistant professor at Pacific University, and lives in Portland, Oregon. She can be reached at xkserrano@pacificu.edu. Copyright © 2023 Ximena Keogh Serrano","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mid-day subway: there are no icebreakers or pronouns for this","authors":"Kay Ulanday Barrett","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.a910100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910100","url":null,"abstract":"Mid-day subway: there are no icebreakers or pronouns for this Kay Ulanday Barrett (bio) For a long time I wanted there to be no barrier between pelvis and thetectonic plate of my chest. Just open. It’s impossible though. My belovedswoons at my nipples, re-stitched, body a tell-all, body terror. Strangers cullme on train, even in afternoon, spit out my looks like cherry pits even though I fold page in some book, secretly recounting how many steps it takes to get to the exit. I thinkabout how to make a man’s loud slander silence on the prism of my heel. Ibreathe in shapes I don’t want, my exhale puffed to the circumference of fistif any one’s too close. Three ways I can synthesize jugular, make husk of an eye. I muster courage. Proud uncles called me “Black belter” didn’t know eventually Iwas ready to spar with men who mirrored their drunken haze. I’m familiar with the sequence of bruised rib turnedcinder dust. Not again. There, I said it. In the name of thislabor let me smile at the sun, finally. In the name of all of us, no set of teeth sharpened every time we have to cross the street. By thelook of your terse pupils, you woke up sweat drenchedunder the starlight thinking it could be sheath too. You, wishing streetlamp were baton. You were hopingto dream something buttery soft slick, hoping withoutnightmares of pummel, hoping to give the moon a break. [End Page 308] Kay Ulanday Barrett Named one of “9 Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Writers You Should Know” by Vogue, Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry by Foundation for Contemporary Arts, winner of a 2022 Tin House Next Book Residency, and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell. Their second book, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020), received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award from the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They can be reached at info@kaybarrett.net. Copyright © 2023 Kay Ulanday Barrett","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sex and State Are Action Verbs","authors":"Claudia Sofía Garriga-López","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.a910085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910085","url":null,"abstract":"Sex and State Are Action Verbs Claudia Sofía Garriga-López (bio) Paisley Currah’s Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, New York: New York University Press, 2022 In the face of the present moment’s relentless culture-war legislation against transgender people, Sex Is as Sex Does is a gift to educators who want to teach transgender studies from a political science perspective. This book is accessible and clearly written in a way that makes it especially suitable for undergraduate students as well as people outside of academia who want to deepen their understanding of transgender politics. Paisley Currah’s experiences as both an advocate for transgender rights and a social theorist guide readers to look at big-picture questions about the social construction of sex in and through governance practices, without losing sight of the immediate material needs of trans people for political reforms. Currah moves through a series of legal cases, administrative rules, and legislation to demonstrate what sex categorizations do across a wide range of government agencies and institutions. In doing so, he demonstrates the plasticity of sex as a tool of governance, as one of many categories used to distribute resources and exert control over populations. Sex classifications and the requirements for sex reclassification are a function of government, even or especially within agencies that purportedly have nothing to do with sex. Currah points out that institutions that surveil, confer benefits, or incarcerate have different sets of interest when it comes to sex designation. He helps us make sense of the contradictory and uneven distribution of sex reclassification policies by pointing out the different work that sex classification does in a driver’s licence, on a marriage certificate, in prison, and so on. Through this narrow yet versatile focus on the regulations surrounding sex reclassification, Currah theorizes state formations. Sex is as sex does, but also, government is as government does. States are not inherently coherent, unified, or rational; they are an amalgamation of practices that often contradict one another. [End Page 255] This book can be thought of as a transfeminist theory of state. Transfeminism offers us a path through which to move beyond the gender essentialism and biological determinism that has plagued feminisms since the sex/gender divide was made a central principle through which to refute women’s subordination. Currah’s state-based political analysis compliments transgender scholarship’s deconstruction of sex as a stable biological category in the fields of medicine and gender studies. Currah sustains that despite their limitations, it is many times necessary to employ talking points about the correct medical and scientific understanding of sex or the need for sex reclassification, even as he proposes that a more just approach would be to do away with sex classification altogether. Currah traces how sex categorization was fo","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reptile Moves","authors":"Ximena Keogh Serrano","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.a910098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910098","url":null,"abstract":"Reptile Moves Ximena Keogh Serrano (bio) I climb outside my bodythe way I did when I was fifteen climbing outside our house windowthe way I did when I was born climbing out of mamá’s belly-homeNow again, a fire-y invocation How to return? This flesh never belonged to me only echoed outsidelife-ruins Malleability of skin like test Witness herehow a soul escapes To learn from the scenes of a gushing—what bleedsfrom square glassblade-view A self, buddinginto soarsof confetti [End Page 306] Ximena Keogh Serrano Ximena Keogh Serrano is a poet and scholar of Latin American and U.S. Latinx literary and cultural studies. Her research and writing move across genres of literary criticism, visual culture, and studies in gender and sexuality. She is an assistant professor at Pacific University, and lives in Portland, Oregon. She can be reached at xkserrano@pacificu.edu. Copyright © 2023 Ximena Keogh Serrano","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making Pictures: Disabled Nonbinary Praxis in Leslie Feinberg’s screened-in Photography Series","authors":"Joy Ellison","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.a910083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910083","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This paper expands historical and theoretical engagements with Leslie Feinberg’s life by analyzing the nonbinary and disability politics of hir screened-in photography series. Through a consent-based method called “making” photographs, Feinberg challenged the conventions of photographic representation of disabled and transgender people. The screened-in series provides a nonbinary political/relational model of gender, sexuality, race, and disability.","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ben &amp; Brianne @ Home","authors":"Brianne Waychoff","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.a910090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910090","url":null,"abstract":"Ben & Brianne @ Home Brianne Waychoff (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Brianne Waychoff. Ben and Brianne @ Home, 2020. Pen and ink. [End Page 273] Click for larger view View full resolution Brianne Waychoff. Ben and Brianne @ Home, 2020. Pen and ink. [End Page 274] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 275] Brianne Waychoff Brianne Waychoff, PhD, was associate professor in the Department of Speech, Communication, and Theatre Arts at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She was the founder of the Gender and Women’s Studies AA Program at BMCC, which she coordinated across departments. Brianne’s published articles and creative scholarship appear in Pacific Affairs, Text and Performance Quarterly, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, and PAJ: Performing Arts Journal. She has served on the Performance Studies National Review Board, as chair of the National Women’s Studies Association Community College Caucus, and on the editorial boards of Text and Performance Quarterly, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, and Women and Language. Dr. Waychoff’s work used performance as a method for investigating issues of gender justice. She danced with the Joffrey Ballet and trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Augusto Boal, Goat Island Performance Group, and with a range of practitioners in the Japanese Avant-Dance form butoh. She was a former member of the International WOW Company. Her performance work has been presented at professional venues and festivals throughout the United States and abroad. Additionally, with her background in community organizing and activism, she served on the Faculty Advisory Board for the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault. In 2016 she was recognized as a “change-maker” at the inaugural United State of Women Summit.* Footnotes * Dr. Brianne Waychoff passed away on July 25, 2022, from 9/11-related kidney cancer. She was general editor of WSQ, with Dr. Red Washburn, from 2020 until her passing. Dr. Brianne Waychoff was also guest editor of WSQ’s Nonbinary issue, along with Dr. Red Washburn and Dr. JV Fuqua. Copyright © 2023 Brianne Waychoff","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Palmetto, from Black Girl in Triptych , Part 1","authors":"Dána-Ain Davis","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.a910093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910093","url":null,"abstract":"Palmetto, from Black Girl in Triptych, Part 1 Dána-Ain Davis (bio) The short man muttered to himself as he limped toward his seat in the fifth car of the Palmetto leaving Charleston, South Carolina . . . the car where Negroes sat. His body was slight, wisp-like, but his mouth sounded like he was swishing seven marbles. He spoke kind of funny because apparently, he never left his Haitian accent back in Acul-du-Nord, even though he arrived in Edgefield County, South Carolina, ten years earlier. The pout of his lips, from which the accent fell, was why they called him Frenchy—a name a lot of South Carolinians called Haitians who first came to Charleston in the 1700s from Saint Dominique. Frenchy boarded the train in his gray pants and light-blue short-sleeve polo shirt. He had the collar up, and the top two buttons were undone so his gold necklace was visible. His hair was slightly conked and combed back. Such a dapper man might have had a larger suitcase, but his was just a medium-size, tan tweed and cognac-colored leather. His valise was the size of man who had left someplace in a hurry. Yet, his manicured nails—perfectly square with rounded edges—told a tale of living a well-appointed life. Those hands, almost dainty, pulled out a ticket from his pant pocket. It read “15A,” which came as a relief because it was the window seat. When Frenchy found the location, a young woman was already getting settled in 15B and was reaching over the aisle to hand the two little girls across from her, orange sections in a napkin. Frenchy sighed because now he was going to have to navigate another person taking up space in his own small world. The young lady looked up as Frenchy lingered by the arm of the seat before hoisting his suitcase to the overhead bin. The suitcase, the size of which suggested its owner did not [End Page 285] have much or did not plan to stay where he was going for very long, nestled in its place much more easily when Frenchy turned it sideways. Now came the small talk that would get him to his window seat. Ma’am that’s my seat. Ok, give me a second, she said. Frenchy waited all of five seconds for the woman to swivel her hips and legs to the right so he could inch his way past her. Frenchy made his wispy body even smaller by holding in his nonexistent stomach and side-shuffled to his seat. When his body arrived, he sat down and was so glad to be doing so. Now he could rest his head on the window instead of taking a chance that when sleep came to get him, his head would drop and lean into the aisle. That could be the job of the lady, he thought. She could create the disturbance in the aisle, not him. As soon as Frenchy sat down, one of the two little girls said, Mama, when we gonna get there? The little girl’s mother looked around, checking people’s faces against the volume of her daughter’s voice. She put a red-painted finger up to her lips and told her daughter, Gilda-girl, hush, don’t nobody wanna hear you. Gilda-girl whined, But Mama, I","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}