When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Boy: Transgeneration’s Meditation on the “Real”
I was sitting on a 42nd street window ledge at the end of a hot New York August afternoon when I looked up and discovered I’d hit the big time. I was on… Continue reading
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“Fags Doom Nations” and Other Parables of Hate: Representations of “Hate Crime” and U.S. National Identity
In 1993, Brandon Teena, a white transgender man was raped and beaten, then killed in Falls City, Nebraska. In1998, James Byrd, Jr., a Black man, was dragged to death in Jasper, Texas and… Continue reading
Safe Keeping (2002-2003)
Safe Keeping began as an inquiry into how the language of “safety” is shaped in people’s experiences and how commonplace, or dominant, ways of framing what constitutes safety, and safe keeping, elides other… Continue reading