This issue offers a theoretical and methodological imagining of
what constitutes trans* before the advent of the terms that
scholars generally look to for the formation of modern conceptions
of gender, sex, and sexuality. What might we find if we look for
trans* before trans*? While some historians have rejected the
category of transgender to speak of experiences before the
mid-twentieth century, others have laid claim to those living
gender-non-conforming lives before our contemporary era. By using
the concept of trans*historicity, this volume draws together trans*
studies, historical inquiry, and queer temporality while also
emphasizing the historical specificity and variability of gendered
systems of embodiment in different time periods. Essay topics
include a queer analysis of medieval European saints, discussions
of a nineteenth-century Russian religious sect, an exploration of a
third gender in early modern Japanese art, a reclamation of Ojibwe
and Plains Cree Two-Spirit language, and biopolitical genealogies
and filmic representations of transsexuality. The issue also
features a roundtable discussion on trans*historicities and an
interview with the creators of the 2015 film Deseos. Critiquing
both progressive teleologies and the idea of sex or gender as a
timeless tradition, this issue articulates our own desires for
trans history, trans*historicities, and queerly temporal forms of
historical narration. Contributors. Kadji Amin, M. W. Bychowski,
Fernanda Carvajal, Howard Chiang, Leah DeVun, Julian Gill-Peterson,
Jack Halberstam, Asato Ikeda, Jacob Lau, Kathleen P. Long, Maya
Mikdashi, Robert Mills, Carlos Motta, Marcia Ochoa, Kai Pyle, C.
Riley Snorton, Zeb Tortorici, Jennifer Louise Wilson
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