The Transgender Studies Reader 2

Chapter 46: “We Won't Know Who You Are”: Contesting Sex Designations in New York City Birth Certificates - Paisley Currah and Lisa Jean Moore

Further Reading

Meadow, T. (2010). “A Rose is a Rose” On Producing Legal Gender Classifications. Gender & Society, 24(6), 814–837.

Grabham, E. (2010). Governing Permanence: Trans Subjects, Time, and the Gender Recognition Act. Social & Legal Studies, 19(1), 107–126.

Chapter 47: Reinscribing Normality: The Politics of Transgender Marriage - Ruthann Robson

Further Reading

Pfeffer, C. A. (2012). Normative Resistance and Inventive Pragmatism Negotiating Structure and Agency in Transgender Families. Gender & Society, 26(4), 574–602.

Links

Against Equality: Queer Challenges to the Politics of Inclusion http://www.againstequality.org/

 

Chapter 48: Performance as Intravention: Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit - Marlon Bailey

Further Reading

Book Manuscript:
Bailey, M. M. (2013). Butch Queens up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Journal Articles:
Arnold, E. & Bailey, M. M. (2009). Constructing Home and Family: How the Ballroom Community Supports African American GLBTQ Youth in the Face of HIV/AIDS. [Special Issue]. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 21(2), 171–188.

Bailey, M. M. (2011). Gender/Racial Realness: Theorizing the Gender System in Ballroom Culture. [Special Issue]. Feminist Studies, 37(2), 365–386.

Bailey, M. M. (2010). Rethinking the African Diaspora and HIV/AIDS Prevention from the Perspective of Ballroom Culture. In P. C. Hintzen, J. Muteba Rahier, & F. Smith (Eds.), Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 96–126.

Carreras, J. (2010). Just Dance: Ruth Ellis Center Documentary Shows Why, For Some Youth, Voguing Is Life. Between the Lines (BLT), 1837, 21.

Hwahng, S. J. & Nuttbrock, L. (2007). Sex Workers, Fem Queens, and Cross-Dressers: Differential Marginalization and HIV Vulnerabilities among Three Ethno-cultural Male-to-Female Transgender Communities in New York City. Sexuality Research & Social Policy, 4(4), 36–59.

Kubicek, K., McNeeley, M., Holloway, I. W., Weiss, G., & Kipke, M. D. (2012). “It’s Like Our Own Little World”: Resilience as a Factor in Participating in the Ballroom Community Subculture. AIDS and Behavior 17: 4, 1–16.

Phillips, II, G., Peterson, J., Binson, D., et al. (2011). House/Ball Culture and Adolescent African-American Transgender Persons and Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Synthesis of the Literature. AIDS Care, 23(4), 515–520.

Singh, A. A. (2012). Transgender Youth of Color and Resilience: Negotiating Oppression and Finding Support. Sex Roles 11-12, 690-702.

Ballroom Music:
MFSB. Love is the Message. Philadelphia International Records. 1973.

Basement Jaxx. Fly Life, Atlantic Jaxx Recordings: A Compilation. Atlantic Jaxx. 1997.

Links

“Underground Culture of Balls,” accessed April 27, 2011,http://balls.houseofenigma.com/.
This is a website that explains Ballroom basics, created by a legendary member of the community.

 

Video

For an example of “New Way Vogue,” view this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctzJ92E-mtU&feature=related

For an example of “Old Way Vogue,” see:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7r27xQpdco&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL7D1C827DB34D1C05

Voguing’s expansion to Japan, accessed on October 7, 2011:        
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGuPzT5lks8andfeature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVuRysgYMSwandNR=1

 

Chapter 49: Transgender as Mental Illness: Nosology, Social Justice, and the Tarnished Golden Mean - Nick Gorton

Further Reading

Sennott, S. L. (2010). Gender Disorder as Gender Oppression: A Transfeminist Approach to Rethinking the Pathologization of Gender Non-Conformity. Women & Therapy, 34(1/2), 93–113.

Links

GID Reform Advocateswww.gidreform.org

 

Chapter 50: Building an Abolitionist Trans & Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got - Dean Spade, Morgan Bassichis and Alex Lee

Further reading

Chen, C.-I., Dulani, J., & Lakshmi Piepzna-Smarasinha, L. (Eds). (2011). The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.

Davis, A. Y. (2003). Are Prisons Obsolete? New York: Seven Stories Press.

Gilmore, R. W. (1999). Globalisation and US Prison Growth: From Military Keynesianism to post-Keynesian Militarism. Race & Class, 40, 171.

INCITE! Women of Color against Violence (Ed.). The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2009

INCITE! Women of Color against Violence (Ed.). (2006). Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.

Spade, D. & Mananzala, R. (2008). The NPIC and Trans Resistance. Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, 5(1), 53–71.

Scranton, P. & McCulloch, J. (Eds.). (2008). The Violence of Incarceration. New York: Routledge.

Stanley, E. A., Spade, D., & Justice, Q. I. (2012). Queering Prison Abolition, Now? American Quarterly, 64(1), 115–127.

Links

Generation Five
http://generationfive.org/

"Toward Transformative Justice," Generation FIVE. (2007).
http://www.generationfive.org/downloads/G5_Toward_Transformative_Justice.pdf

Statement from the Sylvia Rivera Law Project on hate crime legislation
http://srlp.org/our-strategy/policy-advocacy/hate-crimes/

Video

Make it Happen! (2010) - Transforming Justice
http://vimeo.com/16952110

Prison Industrial Complex – Trans Views (2012) – TGI Justice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5qw2kViAaM&feature=player_embedded