this is my library of written and filmic literature on/ about/ related to transfeminism, poetry, (post)modernism, anticolonialism, and other miscellanous topics and areas of interest. some personal and lesser-known favorites thrown in for variety. most are downloadable. use them as guides not scripture.
two trans lesbians discuss sex & negative experiences with gay men; tender; touching; really brings to light how non-hegemonic masculinities still reach for the conditional acceptance among certain circles (most esp. in relations between men) guaranteed by Performance of hegemonic manhood oriented around misogyny
a poetic rendering of queer loss & grief from one of my favorite currently working burmese filmmakers
a burmese transfem working the graveyard shift at a microcinema talks filmic transmisogyny with a potential love interest
a gender- & [thus] social positionality-reversed retelling of oedipus rex set in post-war tokyo's underground queer/hippie subcultures, centering transfeminine socialization as fag & through transmisogyny; a buddhist counter-narrative/-argument to the freudian formulation of the oedipus complex as the root of subjectivity & desire by positing non-selfhood/ active incessant negation of self(-image) & decentering of perception as a means of attaining subjective desire; [trans]femininity in the context of prostitution & subordinated desire-performance; all-around goodness
a collage of choreo/graphed renditions of palestinian folklore by female dancers, on film w/ perforated edges, insistent on itself: media of documentation as a social + representational mode of resistance in /against occupation
"if i were to come up with a single phrase for what I think the full story is; the thesis of utena if you will, it would be this: “gender as a structure reproduces itself violently: especially through romance and sex, especially against children, especially within families – and, at its core, all three of these at once.”" a series of essays on sibling incest in revolutionary girl utena by @palaceperspective; compiled into a PDF by me.
"(...) consideration of the degraded sexual subject in Qiu’s fiction, in particular how shame and subjective degradation are figured in Qiu’s representations of stigmatic bodies, allows us to formulate a series of interesting general questions about abjection, stigma, and sexual subjectivity (...)"
"Out of Mind & Into Body tears through the medicalized trappings of social embodiment with analytical precision. From examining the ways in which doctors pry through autistic minds to unraveling the feminine coding of a fainting couch, Cavar leaves no diagnostic harm left unquestioned. Readers, be warned: this is a book for the faint of heart and audaciously limp of wrist (...) “what does it mean when i stand naked revealing you, nothing.”" - Fox Auslander
"Our intention (...) is to provide a non-exhaustive sense of some of the dynamic writing that the emergent category of trans literature has already made possible. We want everyone, everyone who wants to, to get in on it too. Every instance of these various texts and projects assembled here represents only a moment in a series of collective eforts to think about and intervene in the world we intend to win. We want it all, we want it fucking all, where all is a list for everyone to make."