How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans
survival and flourishing Some days—or weeks, or months, or even
years—being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out,
there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone
speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because
they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently
phobic framings of trans as inauthentic and threatening. In
Side Affects, Malatino opens a new conversation about trans
experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy,
burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual
and structural transphobia in order to map the intricate emotional
terrain of trans survival. Trans structures of feeling are
frequently coded as negative on both sides of transition. Before
transition, narratives are framed in terms of childhood trauma and
being in the “wrong body.” Posttransition, trans
individuals—especially trans people of color—are subject to
unrelenting transantagonism. Yet trans individuals are discouraged
from displaying or admitting to despondency or despair. By
moving these unloved feelings to the center of trans experience,
Side Affects proposes an affective trans commons that exists
outside political debates about inclusion. Acknowledging such
powerful and elided feelings as anger and exhaustion, Malatino
contends, is critical to motivating justice-oriented advocacy and
organizing—and recalibrating new possibilities for survival and
well-being.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2022 |
| Firstpublished: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Hil Malatino
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5179-1209-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5179-1209-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781517912093 |
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