Gender outlaws The next generation

Book - 2010

"In the fifteen years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein's groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream. Today's transpeople, genderqueers, and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. Gender Outlaws, edited by the original gender outlaw, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers -- new voices from the stage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on the pages and websites of the world's most respected news sources. Gender Outlaws includes essa...ys, commentary, comic art, and conversation from a diverse group of trans-spectrum people who live and believe in barrier-breaking lives." -- Publisher description.

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Published
Berkeley, Calif. : Seal Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West c2010.
Language
English
Other Authors
Kate Bornstein, 1948- (-), S. Bear Bergman, 1974-
Physical Description
302 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781580053082
  • Introduction / Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman
  • Part I. Do I look like an outlaw to you? We're all someone's freak / Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Trans-corporation: a benefit analysis of a transgender man in a corporate setting / CT Whitley
  • A slacker and delinquent in basketball shoes / Raquel (Lucas) Platero Méndez
  • The old folks at home / Janet Hardy
  • Dear Austin special needs bathroom / StormMiguel Florez
  • Identity, schmidentity / Telyn Kusalik
  • Letting my light out / Leona Lo
  • Imposter / Quince Mountain
  • Jihad / Azadeh Arsanjani
  • Are you a boy or a girl? / Roe-Anne Alexander
  • Part II. Being reconfigurated is not the same as being reimagined. The big reveal / Sherilyn Connelly
  • The wrong body / Scott Turner Schofield
  • Performance piece / Julia Serano
  • The perfect storm / Sam Peterson
  • A drag queen born in a female body / Adrian Dalton
  • Dual citizenship / Ahimsa Timoteo Badhran
  • Trans-ing gender: the surgical option / Mercedes Allen
  • I am the I / Sean Saifa Wall
  • Make me a vessel for anomaly / Simon Iris
  • I am transreal: a reflection on/of becoming Dragon / Micha Cardenas
  • Taking up space / Kyle Lukoff
  • Transliteration / Fransisco Fernandez
  • Part III. Which is why I'm as cute as I happen to be. Daddy gets the big piece of chicken / Fran Varian
  • On living well and coming free / Ryka Aoki
  • Faygele / Dane Kuttler
  • The secret life of my wiener / Cory Schmanke Parrish
  • In our skin / A. P. Andre and Luis Gutierrez-Mock
  • Glitter, glitter, on the wall, who's the queerest of them all? / Esmé Rodriguez
  • Transfag robot manifesto / Sam Orchard
  • Transcension / Katie Diamond and Johnny Blazes
  • Intermission / Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman
  • Part IV. It might not be a picnic, but there's a great buffet. The manly art of pregnancy / J. Wallace
  • Transgressing gender at Passover with Jesus! / Peterson Toscano
  • Today's new name may be tomorrow's old / Sassafras Lowrey
  • Calling for the recognition of self-love as a legitimate relationship in the game of life / Andrea Jenkins
  • Why you don't have to choose a white boy name to be a man in this world / Kenji Tokawa
  • Talk Derby to me / Uzi Sioux
  • Seeworthy / E. S. Weistbrot
  • Part V. And still we rise. Marsha P. Johnson: ten suns the transformer / Tamiko Beyer
  • She-male rising / Shawna Virago
  • Princess / Christine Smith
  • Shot, stabbed, choked, strangled, broken: a ritual for November 20th / Roz Kaveney
  • Proof / Bo Luengsuraswat
  • The voice / Joy Ladin
  • The role of culture in cleansing gender outlaws: the Lamal Ceremony of the Maasai, Kenya / Judy Wawira Gichoya and Priscilla Maina
  • Shooting s(t)ar / Amir Rabiyah
  • Pilgrimage / Zev Al-Walid
  • Cisgender privilege: on the privileges of performing normative gender / Evin Taylor
  • Epilogue / Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Fifteen years after Bornstein's groundbreaking Gender Outlaw, this follow-up collection presents the wide-ranging voices of a new generation of gender radicals. In thought-provoking essays, poems, and comics, contributors address the problematic nature of language and labels, which often force people into two categories; "People get upset with transgender people who choose to inhabit a third gender space rather than ‘pick a side.'" A lack of acknowledgment of alternate gender labels in public spaces such as restrooms, and on official documentation highlights this issue on a daily basis. Lypsinka, Ryka Aoki, Katie Diamond and Johnny Blazes and other contributors reveal how far we've come in defining ourselves, and some, like Janet Hardy, resist definition entirely: "I am perfectly comfortable. not choosing a fixed identity location." Self-assuredness and self-acceptance exude from these deeply personal writings ("Let's stop trying to deconstruct gender into nonexistence, and instead start celebrating it as inexplicable, varied, profound, and intricate"). Non-Western perspectives, including a description of a ritual for Maasai women who can't reproduce, broaden the concept of "gender outlaw" and further challenge accepted notions of what is normal. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.