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[semi] daily academia
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Leave a Comment A new tradition on TPQ – I pick a random quotation from some random theorists/academic and twist it here to fit my own purposes – after all, that’s the academic experiment, right?
So, today on TPQ: “The ‘passing’ imperative, which begins from the moment a SRS-seeker enters a medical office and is sized up by a professional who will decide hir ‘realness’ and seriousness at least in part based on the success of the presentation of a gender norm, is an essential regulating aspect of the process of ‘transsexual’ (and ‘non-transsexual’) production.” (Spade 2006: 323). [a sidenote: check the queer as read page for the details of the reference - I'm too lazy to put it here for you - plus, that'd be too easy].
How shall I twist this one? My procedure for choosing it was that I opened a box of notecards that are joyously not sorted yet for the penning of the thesis, and blindly chose one. Actually, not blindly… I kind of ignored two or three before picking up this one. But you wouldn’t have liked the others – they were quite boring. So, perhaps I should twist this piece to explain something completely non-trans-related? Read more »
