دانلود کتاب تاثیرات جانبی بر ترنس بودن و احساس بد بودن

Some days (weeks, months, years), being trans feels bad. To say so isn’t particularly insightful—it’s merely factic. Yet there’s not much available cultural space for actually existing trans peo­ple to think through, let alone speak of, such bad feeling with any degree of nuance or complexity. Instead, we’re more or less trapped within a contemporary discursive field that toggles be­tween the celebratory tokenization and hypervisibility that’s part and parcel of the longue durée of the supposed “transgen­der tipping point,” on the one hand, and the virulently phobic conservative framings of trans subjectivity as irreal, inauthentic, and threatening that are deployed in order to further foreclose our life chances, on the other. Spectacularized accounts of trans death and suffering—especially the death and suffering of Black and brown trans women—are rife and circulate both as a form of white leftist virtue signaling and as a well-meaning liberal sob story that presents trans lives as single-note portraits of oppres­sion and traumatization. The genres of trans living are whittled down to just a few: hero worship, demonology, victimology.