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Section 2: Making Trans-Culture(s): Texts, Performances, Artifacts
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Chapter 6: “The White To Be Angry”: Vaginal Creme Davis’ Terrorist Drag - Jose Esteban Muñoz
Further Reading
Braziel, J. E. (2005). Dred's Drag Kinging of Race, Sex, and the Queering of the American racial Machine Désirante. Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 15(2), 161–188.
Guattari, F. & Genosko, G. (1996). The Guattari Reader. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Moreman, S. T. & McInstosh, D. M. (2010). Brown Scriptings and Rescriptings: A Critical Performance Ethnography of Latina Drag Queens. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 7(2), 115–135.
Rhyne, R. (2004). Racializing White Drag. Journal of Homosexuality, 46, 181–194.
Stuettgen, T. (2007). Disidentification in the Center of Power: The Porn Performer and Director Belladonna as a Contrasexual Culture Producer (A Letter to Beatriz Preciado). Women's Studies Quarterly, 35(1–2), 249–270.
Links
Website of Vaginal Crème Davis:http://www.vaginaldavis.com/
Chapter 7: Felt Matters - Jeanne Vaccaro
Further Reading
Adamson, G. (2007). Thinking Through Craft. Oxford: Berg.
Auther, E. (2009). String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Roberts, L. J. (2011). "Put Your Thing Down, Flip It, and Reverse It: Reimagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory." In M. E. Buszeck (Ed.), Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art. Durham: Duke University Press.
Sedgwick, E. K. (2003). Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performance. Durham: Duke University Press.
Links
Artist Emmett Ramstad's website: http://www.emmettramstad.com
Chapter 8: Groping Theory: Haptic Cinema and Trans-Curiosity in Hans Scheirl’s Dandy Dust - Eliza Steinbock
Further Reading
Culler, J. (1994). Introduction. The Point of Theory: Practices of Cultural Analysis. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Scheirl, H. (1997). Manifesto for the Dada of the Cyborg-Embrio. The Eight Technologies of Otherness. London: Routledge.
Williams, L. (1995). Corporealized Observers: Visual Pornographies and the “Carnal Density of Vision.” Fugitive Images: From Photography to Video. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Links
Artist website – Hans Scheirl: http://hansscheirl.jimdo.com/
Chapter 9: The Transgender Look - J. Halberstam
Further Reading
Davis, E. C. (2009). Situating “Fluidity”: (Trans) Gender Identification and the Regulation of Gender Diversity. GLQ, 15(1), 97–130.
Freeman, E. (2010). Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. Durham: Duke University Press.
Stryker, S. (2000). Transsexuality: The Postmodern Body and/as Technology. In D. Bell & B. M. Kennedy (Eds.), The Cybercultures Reader. London: Routledge, 588–597.
Films
Boys Don’t Cry (1999) – dir. Kimberly Pierce http://www.foxsearchlight.com/boysdontcry/By Hook or by Crook (2001) – dir. H. Dodge & S. Howard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkQ2bN446VU
The Crying Game (1992) – dir. Neil Jordan http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104036/
Chapter 10: Embracing Transition, or Dancing in the Folds of Time - Julian Carter
Further Reading
Derrida, J. & McDonald, C. V. (1995). Choreographies. In E. Goellner & J. Shea Murphy (Eds.), Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 141–156.
Luengsuraswat, B. (2009). Rewriting the Written: FTM Self-Making and the Performance of Possibilities in Sean Dorsey’s Uncovered: The Diary Project. UC Los Angeles: UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
Links
Sean Dorsey’s website:http://www.seandorseydance.com/