{"title":"Thang Sai Thee Sam (The Third Pathway) Novel As Archive: Inspiring a Kathoey ‘Herstorian’","authors":"Chanathip Suwannanon","doi":"10.18357/ghr12202321308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321308","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 
 This essay studies the Thai novel Thang Sai Thee Sam, or ทาง สายท่ีสาม (The Third Pathway), as an archive. This novel was written by Kiratee Chanar, the first Thai transsexual woman novelist, who drew from her own emotions and sex-change experiences in the USA in 1975. The first edition of Thang Sai Thee Sam was published in 1982. In summary, this essay elucidates how a novel can be a historical source by contextualizing its formation. Thang Sai Thee Sam reflected the broader political contexts in Thailand during the Cold War, the development of a world sex-change capital in/outside of Thailand, and the visibility of white transsexual autobiographies. By situating it within this context, I demonstrate that it is possible to examine Thang Sai Thee Sam as a “transgender archive” — or more specially a kathoey archive — and a historical source of development of trans medicine in national and global contexts.
 
 
 
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{"title":"Draft Dodger, Soldier’s Wife: Trans Feminine Lives, Civic Duty, and World War II","authors":"Juniper Oxford","doi":"10.18357/ghr12202321306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321306","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 
 This article examines trans feminine lived experiences in the United States during the Second World War amid persecution amplified by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the May Act of 1941, and heightened visibility through local and national news publications. This article contends that there is a longer and more complicated linked history between trans feminine Americans and the U.S. military than has been acknowledged by both scholarship and public discourse. Federal statutes like the STSA and the May Act lent authority to the state and its auxiliaries beyond the singular municipal or county jurisdiction. These factors aided the legal persecution of innumerable Americans with perjury, draft evasion, ‘moral’, and fraud charges. Through case studies of the disparate circumstances surrounding the ‘discovery of sex’ of three individuals, Sadie Acosta, Lucy Hicks Anderson, and Georgia Black, this study illuminates the role of various actors involved in investigating and policing their ‘moral’ crimes and gender variance in the 1940s and 1950s. In the post-war years, the figure of the ‘ex-G.I.’ woman is seen through numerous well-publicized cases in the U.S. and the U.K., showing that trans feminine experiences of World War II could be found both at home and abroad.
 
 
 
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{"title":"Constellating Trans Activist Histories","authors":"Niamh Timmons","doi":"10.18357/ghr12202321302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321302","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 
 The narrative that the 1969 Stonewall Riots were the origin of queer and trans liberatory movements is common in queer and trans communities and institutions. This emphasis on Stonewall, however, has come at the price of minimizing or erasing other queer and trans activist histories and legacies. I propose using the framework of ‘constellating’ as a means of thinking about multiple points of trans activist histories and how they relate to one another. Such a reading enables us to see trans brilliance in and beyond Stonewall.
 
 
 
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{"title":"“Alone it’s tough, TOGETHER IT’S EASY\": Hedesthia, Aotearoa New Zealand’s First Trans Organisation, 1972-1990","authors":"Will Hansen","doi":"10.18357/ghr12202321357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321357","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 
 Founded in 1972, Hedesthia was a social, support, and advocacy group for transvestites and transsexuals - the first organisation of its kind in Aotearoa New Zealand. Hedesthia provided support to its members through monthly meetings, a bi-monthly newsletter, and various other services which included hot-line counselling and a lending library. For many members, Hedesthia and its o-shoot group, TransFormation, were lifelines in a world that could be intensely hostile to trans people. Pathbreaking in their trans activism, Hedesthia and TransFormation’s leaders diligently advocated for trans issues in their local communities. Yet Hedesthia also cultivated a transnormative politics of respectability. Largely middle-class and white, Hedesthia's leaders worked hard to define their members as ‘normal’ and acceptable, and in the process denigrated Māori and Pasifika trans sex workers.
 
 
 
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{"title":"Fascism and the Trans Villain: Historically Recurring Transphobia in Far-Right Politics","authors":"Penelope Higgins","doi":"10.18357/ghr12202321578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321578","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 
 This article builds a base of historical and theoretical context to understand the resurgence of transphobic propaganda and violence led by the American far-right through an examination of the connections between trans politics and global political economies of capitalism. Through a synthesis of established theories of fascism, a historical analysis of fascism, and a case study of propagandistic transphobia in two American films from the height of the Cold War, I argue that the proliferation of contemporary anti-trans sentiment reflects the state of crisis that the American empire is experiencing as domestic and international resistance threatens its global hegemony. Further I argue that a historical and theoretical examination of fascism and trans issues show the capacity for fascistic anti-trans violence not as a departure from the norm of liberal democratic nation-state systems that developed through the processes of capital, but rather as a constitutive part of that norm. Trans historians must mobilize historical knowledge and practice to disseminate public facing works that furnish a wide base of readers with the tools to understand and contextualize contemporary trans panic as it metastasizes.
 
 
 
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{"title":"Hijas de la Putisima: A Trans Femme Perspective on Juana María Rodríguez’ Puta Life","authors":"Sam Dolores Sanchinel","doi":"10.18357/ghr12202321579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321579","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 
 To be a “puta” means to be a whore, a prostitute, a slut, or more formally, a sex worker. More commonly, it is used as a derogatory term against women who do not conform to “proper” sexual and gender norms. In Puta Life, Juana María Rodríguez explores the histories of Latina sex workers through archives, documentaries, pornography and social media. In this paper I outline the methodological tools Rodríguez uses to read “puta lives.” As such, I argue that her model of queer aective kinship, and loving personal readings of puta life provide ample resources for work in trans studies as well.
 
 
 
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{"title":"A Trans, Autistic, and Neurogender Jewish Monster: The Story of the Golem","authors":"Dean Leetal","doi":"10.18357/ghr12202321580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321580","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 
 This critical commentary revisits the Jewish story of the Golem and reads it as a transgender text. Some say that the Golem inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a story famously interpreted by Susan Stryker as an allegory for her own trans experience: living on the edge of society, her humanity debated, defined by a morally questionable medical establishment. But there are important dierences between Frankenstein and the Golem. The Golem is brought to life through language, particularly the Hebrew word ‘emet,’ and is an animated clay tasked with protecting Jewish marginalized communities. Today, questions of language and truth are at the center of many debates regarding the validity and nature of transgender people. The concept of protecting marginalized communities, even while being rejected from them, is also painfully relevant. Unlike Frankenstein, though, the Golem is nonverbal, which is linked to autism. Thus, I argue that a neurogender analysis of their story that accounts for both gender and neurodivergence is critical. This reading focuses on these points of relation and what they may bring to light.
 
 
 
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{"title":"The Museum of Transology and Radical (Trans) Trust","authors":"Moira Armstrong","doi":"10.18357/ghr12202321299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321299","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 
 In this critical commentary, I reflect on the radical possibilities of trans public history raised by the practices of the London-based Museum of Transology. First, I introduce the museum and its goals. Then, I discuss the museum’s community archiving and rapid response collecting practices in connection with scholarship about the activist and communal implications of such practices. Finally, I connect the museum’s work to the concept of radical (trans) trust, a term that combines the idea of radical trust from the field of public history with interdisciplinary research on trans community, concluding with the benefits of adopting radical (trans) trust on a wider scale in the heritage sector.
 
 
 
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{"title":"Androgyny in the Archives: 1970s Trans and Feminist Encounters with the Promise and Politics of Non-Binary","authors":"Emily Cousens","doi":"10.18357/ghr12202321343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321343","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 
 Despite the recurrent appeal to androgynous myths, imagery and research in the US mid-twentieth century transgender archive, the aects and politics motivating these have been subject to little consideration. This paper explores the possibilities and problems contained within the mobilisation of androgynous ideals for gendered liberation. It argues that androgyny oered a basis for aective and subjective investments in non-binary gender to be pursued and articulated and considers how a philosophy of androgyny might complicate current discussions of queer and trans taxonomy.
 
 
 
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{"title":"Special Issue Editors' Introduction: Trans Histories by Trans Historians","authors":"Jamey Jesperson, Chris Aino Pihlak","doi":"10.18357/ghr12202321583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321583","url":null,"abstract":"Narrative conventions might call for this special issue introduction to present trans history to the unfamiliar reader as a burgeoning field of academic inquiry. For years now, the story goes, trans history has been becoming, in the works, and on the horizon. As this exciting new collection of essays displays, trans history is, in fact, already here. Moreover, it is being twisted and transformed by a growing wave of graduate students and early career scholars who are, finally and significantly, trans ourselves. It is with great joy that we now share with the world this very special special issue of trans histories — one that is solely trans-edited, trans-designed, and trans-authored. (Click PDF to read more)","PeriodicalId":485548,"journal":{"name":"The graduate history review","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135781473","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}