Thank you Dr. Sharpe!

While my PhD is now over, I am also excited to say that I will start a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University in the Program in Literature this fall. If you are in the area, I would love company avoiding the heat.

And if you are interested in publishing with Aporias, we are still accepting rolling submissions! So, get in touch!

Finally, Renata Prati thoughtfully explores debates about how to theorize depression across affect theory, new materialisms, and feminist studies. csalateral.org/section/apor...

Also thrilled to feature a new essay by Alejandro Beas-Murillo that interrogates how narratives of marronage repeatedly abject the enslaved to foment theories of resistance. csalateral.org/section/apor...

Instead, I find that this “figment,” who was depicted by the musician as having constant sex changes, is actually another elaboration of ungendering. In so doing, I locate the role of agency, affect and race in contemporary theories of transition.

Though the musician describes both this “alter-ego” and themselves as trans, I question whether that descriptor fits given the willlessness of this “figment made flesh.”

In particular, I attend to a white musician who pretended that they were a black trans person for years. In 2020, the musician came out as nonbinary and explained that playing a Black trans person was necessary for them to comprehend their own nonbinaryness.

This article traces a history of minstrelsy and considers how it undergirds particular white forms of nonbinary expression. I consider how the plasticization of the imagined Black body serves as a metaphorical resource for white nonbinary people to imagine gendered plasticity.

Not to mention that effectively many carceral institutions already have a trans-only section: segregation. Incarcerated trans people are far more likely to end up in solitary and often request that, despite its own terror, because of the cruelty that they experience in general population.

Beyond that, the question of a trans only prison was dismissed since Kavanagh v. Canada in 2001, due to the potential of “ghettoization” as well as being a logistical nightmare. It occasionally reappears, but would only further make trans people vulnerable to violence.

These “health and safety concerns” are almost always about the health and safety of carceral institutions…not the trans people who must live in them.

These “health and safety concerns” are almost always about the health and safety of carceral institutions…not the trans people who must live in them.

And/or I am American and simply do not understand the appeal of Mr. Williams.