Name: Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling bad
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Author: Hil Malatino
ISBN: 9781517912093

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Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling bad

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hil Malatino

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.7x14.3x1.7 cm

Weight

0.30 kg.

ISBN13

9781517912093

Synopsis "Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling bad "

How the "bad feelings" of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing Some days--or weeks, or months, or even years--being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of trans as inauthentic and threatening. In Side Affects, Malatino opens a new conversation about trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia in order to map the intricate emotional terrain of trans survival. Trans structures of feeling are frequently coded as negative on both sides of transition. Before transition, narratives are framed in terms of childhood trauma and being in the "wrong body." Posttransition, trans individuals--especially trans people of color--are subject to unrelenting transantagonism. Yet trans individuals are discouraged from displaying or admitting to despondency or despair. By moving these unloved feelings to the center of trans experience, Side Affects proposes an affective trans commons that exists outside political debates about inclusion. Acknowledging such powerful and elided feelings as anger and exhaustion, Malatino contends, is critical to motivating justice-oriented advocacy and organizing--and recalibrating new possibilities for survival and well-being.

Hil Malatino

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Hil Malatino is an assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies, and lead faculty at the Rock Ethics Institute at Pennsylvania State University. Malatino's research focuses on trans and intersex studies, critical sexuality studies, transnational feminisms, disability studies, and medical ethics to theorize how experiences of violence, trauma, and resilience unfold in intersex, trans, and gender non-conforming lives. Malatino's current work places decolonial feminist thought, affect theory, and trans studies in dialogue to investigate the inversion of popular and academic narratives of gender transition in neocolonial understandings of gender embodiment. Their first book was Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience (University of Nebraska Press, 2019)

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