Notes

1. Jules Joanne Gleeson, “How Do Gender Transitions Happen?” in Trangender Marxism, edited by Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O’Rourke (London: Pluto Books, 2021), 82. [return to page 1]

2. Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O’Rouke, “Introduction,” in Transgender Marxism, 3.

3. Jody Rosenberg, “Afterword: One Utopia, One Dystopia,” in Transgender Marxism, 265.

4. Marlon Murtha Bailey, "The Labor of Diaspora: Ballroom Culture and the Making of a Black Queer Community," Dissertation (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). https://go.openathens.net/redirector/fau.edu?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/labor-diaspora-ballroom-culture-making-black/docview/305031111/se-2?accountid=10902.

5. Gleeson and O’Rouke, “Introduction,” in Transgender Marxism, 14.

6. Emma Heaney, The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory (Northwestern University Press, 2017), 276-77.

7. For more on trans cultural production, see Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, edited by Reina Gossett (now Tourmaline), Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017).

8. As Jack Halberstam describes, the transgender body has emerged as a site onto which postmodern fantasies of flexibility are projected, while simultaneously, this dream of flexibility and fluidity supports the structures of late capitalism (In A Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives [New York: NYU Press, 2005], 18 – 19).

9. Nicole Erin Morse, Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022), 11.

10. Nathaniel Dickson, “Seizing the Means: Towards a Trans Epistemology,” in Transgender Marxism, 206.

11. Michelle O’Brien, “Trans Work: Employment Trajectories, Labour Discipline and Gender Freedom,” in Transgender Marxism, 60.

12. Gleeson and O’Rourke, “Introduction,” in Transgender Marxism, 9.

13. Kate Doyle Griffiths, “Queer Workersim Against Work: Strategising Transgender Labourers, Social Reproduction & Class Formation,” in Transgender Marxism, 1140.

14. Carolyn Kay Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives (New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2008), 7.

15. Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman, 123.

16. Helen M. Todd, “Getting out the Vote,” The American Magazine 72 (1911): 619.

17. Katie Tandy, “Trans Day Of Remembrance Is Resilience Above All,” Medium.com, November 20, 2015, https://medium.com/the-establishment/trans-day-of-remembrance-is-resilience-above-all-2e542fd6b147.

18. Alexandra Pollard, “Pose: With the largest cast of trans actors in TV history, Ryan Murphy’s ballroom drama is a strut in the right direction,” Independent, March 21, 2019, https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/pose-film-review-ryan-murphy-ballroom-drama-movie-video-a8829691.html; Tracy E. Gilchrist, “Pose Hits Its Highest Ratings and Lands Early Third Season Renewal,” The Advocate, June 17, 2019, https://www.advocate.com/television/2019/6/17/pose-hits-its-highest-ratings-and-lands-early-third-season-renewal.

19. New Queer Cinema is a brief yet significant movement within arthouse cinema, and was identified as such primarily by B. Ruby Rich, writing reviews of film festivals in the late 1980s and early 1990s (New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut [Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013]). Rich noticed a new wave of queer authored cinema that countered mainstream representations of queer people with nuanced, complex, and even disturbing fiction films and documentaries. Paris is Burning is one of the better known documentaries from the movement.

20. Sheila Jeffrey’s 2014 book Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism (New York: Routeldge, 2014) is one key example of the continued argument that transgender people who seek transition-related medical care are either victims of false consciousness or actively complicit with a capitalist, patriarchal medical industrial complex that creates “transgenderism” to undermine women in the search for profit.

21. Roderick A. Ferguson, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), 5, 10.

22. Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Seal Press, 2007).

23. Ferguson, Aberrations in Black, 5-6.

24. Gleeson and O’Rourke, “Introduction,” in Transgender Marxism, 4-5.

25. Some of these critiques astutely highlight the emphasis on individual identity and agency within queer theory (Yola Kipcak, “Marxism vs. Queer Theory,” In Defence of Marxism, December 2, 2019, https://www.marxist.com/marxism-vs-queer-theory.htm) while others suggest, absurdly, that questioning the sex/gender binary will lead to dissolving all forms of oppositional politics, including class analysis (Slavoj Žižek, “The Sexual is Political,” “The Philosophical Salon” in The Los Angeles Review of Books, August 1, 2016, https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-sexual-is-political). [return to page 2]

26. Ferguson, Aberrations in Black,3.

27. Chandan C. Reddy, “Home, Houses, Nonidentity: Paris is Burning,” in Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity, edited by Rosemary Marangoly George (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998), 356.

28. bell hooks, “Is Paris Burning?” in Black Looks: Race and Representation (New York: Routledge, 1992), 151.

29. Jay Prosser, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 53-54.

30. hooks, “Is Paris Burning?” 150.

31. hooks, “Is Paris Burning?” 148-49.

32. Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (New York: Routledge, [1993] 2015), 131. Ki Namaste critiques Butler’s analysis in “’Tragic Misreadings’:Queer Theory’s Erasure of Transgender Subjectivity,” in Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology, edited by Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason (New York: NYU Press, 1996), 183-203.

33. Mari Ruti, The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory’s Defiant Subjects (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), 65.

34. Reddy, “Home, Houses, Nonidentity,” 357.

35. Reddy, “Home, Houses, Nonidentity,” 368.

36. Serano, “Ungendering in Art and Academia,” in Whipping Girl, 195-212.

37. Heaney, The New Woman, 203-52.

38. Ferguson, Aberrations in Black, 1.

39. Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman, 23.

40. Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman, 89.

41. Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman, 103.

42. For more on the worldbuilding possibilities of queer performance spaces, see José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York: New York University Press, 2009).