My Body, Your Body, and The Transgender Body : Analyzing Gender Performativity, Queer World Making and Transformative Landscapes
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Hemant, Sydney
Issue Date
2024-03-01
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en_US
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Exploring transgender women’s bodies in modern society constitutes a multitude of discourses: of the self, society, and values. Due to currently residing in a cis-sexist heteronormative culture reveals the interwoven fabric of the machine; Systems replicate into culminating arrangements of oppression that aim to dictate and produce stagnant versions of modern life. Transgender women are ridiculed and face much intersectional violence because of the nature of being “othered” in society. By acknowledging the burdens and systems affecting transgender people, this leads to a holistic deconstruction of power, hierarchies, and binaries. Similarly, the explicit function of gender performativity is vital to this discourse in highlighting the social actors and systems involved in maintaining gender. Our current systems inherently uphold compounding oppressions further harming transformative landscapes. The foundations of interlocking oppression expose how hope and radical potential become prominent in queer world-making, thus producing a world in which transgender women and LGBTQIA+ livelihoods are valued; recontextualizing the accepted status quo. This SIP argues the end of scapegoating the intersectional harm trans women face, to call attention to the current realities through personal experience and theory. This Sip also aims to deconstruct the singularity that oppression produces through exploring communal resistance, as well as producing a holistic seed that can incubate the world we are continuously working towards.
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iv, 37 p.
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