The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment Awkward-Rich Cameron
The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment Awkward-Rich Cameron In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic…
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The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment Awkward-Rich Cameron
In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and trans cultural production. By tracing the coproduction of the categories of disabled and transgender in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century and analyzing transmasculine literature and theory by Eli Clare, Elliott DeLine, Dylan Scholinski, and others, Awkward-Rich suggests that thinking with maladjustment might provide new perspectives on the impasses arising from the conflicted relationships among trans, feminist, and queer. Observing that trans studies was founded on a split from and disavowal of madness, illness, and disability, Awkward-Rich argues for and models a trans criticism that works against this disavowal.
In so doing, he demonstrates that rather than only impeding or confining trans life, thought, and