TY - JOUR
T1 - A Small Piece of Red Sky to Fly in
T2 - Transition Pending Revolution
AU - Teran, Ira
AU - Travis, Emrys
N1 - This paper served as the introduction to TSQ 11.2: The Trans* Marxist Issue, which myself and Ira proposed, curated and edited.
PY - 2024/5/1
Y1 - 2024/5/1
N2 - A specter is haunting transgender studies—the specter of Marxism. Recent years have seen the emergence of numerous trans scholars, militants, and organic intellectuals championing the centrality of Marxist analyses of social life to a thorough systemic understanding of trans subjectivity, oppression, and liberation. Beginning from the Marxist premise that no aspect of life under capitalism, including sex, sexuality and gender, exists in isolation from the mode of production, trans Marxism considers how capital intertwines with trans life—through the medicalized and carceralized regulation of bodies, differentiated experiences of exploitation in labor, the ubiquity and material power of the normative family structure—and how this can be collectively overcome.
AB - A specter is haunting transgender studies—the specter of Marxism. Recent years have seen the emergence of numerous trans scholars, militants, and organic intellectuals championing the centrality of Marxist analyses of social life to a thorough systemic understanding of trans subjectivity, oppression, and liberation. Beginning from the Marxist premise that no aspect of life under capitalism, including sex, sexuality and gender, exists in isolation from the mode of production, trans Marxism considers how capital intertwines with trans life—through the medicalized and carceralized regulation of bodies, differentiated experiences of exploitation in labor, the ubiquity and material power of the normative family structure—and how this can be collectively overcome.
U2 - 10.1215/23289252-11215457
DO - 10.1215/23289252-11215457
M3 - Article
SN - 2328-9252
VL - 11
SP - 186
EP - 213
JO - Transgender Studies Quarterly
JF - Transgender Studies Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -