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• Title:Trap door : trans cultural production and the politics of visibilty / edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Tourmaline editor.
  Stanley, Eric A., editor.
  Burton, Johanna, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
  

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  • Call Number: NX650.G44 T73 2017
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Gender identity in art.
  Transgender people in art.
  Transgender people in popular culture.
  
• Description:xxvi, 419 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Critical anthologies in art and culture.
  
• Summary:The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. 'Trap Door' grapples with these contradictions. The essays, conversations, and dossiers gathered here delve into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered "doors"--Entrances to visibility and recognition -- that are actually "traps," accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms. The volume speculates about a third term, perhaps uniquely suited for our time: the trapdoor, neither entrance nor exit, but a secret passageway leading elsewhere.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780262036603 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  0262036606 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  
• Contents:Series preface / Johanna Burton
  Director's foreword / Lisa Phillips
  Known unknowns: an introduction to Trap door / Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton
  The labor of werqing it: the performance and protest strategies of Sir Lady Java / Treva Ellison
  Cautious living: black trans women and the politics of documentation / Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Cece McDonald in conversation with Toshio Meronek
  Existing in the world: blackness at the edge of trans visibility / Che Gossett and Juliana Huxtable in conversation
  Trans history in a moment of danger: organizing within and beyond "visibility" in the 1970s / Abram J. Lewis
  Out of obscurity: trans resistance 1969-2016 / Grace Dunham
  Introducing the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art / Chris E. Vargas
  One from the vaults: gossip, access, and trans history-telling / Morgan M. Page
  Everywhere archives: transgendering, trans Asians, and the Internet / Mel Y. Chen
  Dark shimmers: the rhythm of necropolitical affect in digital media / Micha Cárdenas
  Blackness and the trouble of trans visibility / Che Gossett
  Representation and its limits / Roundtable participants: Lexi Adsit, Sydney Freeland, Robert Hamblin, and Geo Wyeth; moderator: Tavia Nyong'o
  The last extremists? / Heather Love
  An affinity of hammers / Sara Ahmed
  The guild of the brave poor things / Park McArthur and Constantina Zavitsanos
  Spiderwomen / Eva Hayward
  Proximity: on the work of Mark Aguhar / Roy Pérez
  Dynamic static / Nicole Archer
  Model of futurity / Roundtable participants: Kai Lumumba Barrow, Yve Laris Cohen, and Kalaniopua Young; moderator: Dan Spade
  All terror, all beauty / Wu Tsang and Fred Moten in conversation
  Canonical undoings: notes on trans art and archives / Stamatina Gregory and Jeanne Vaccaro
  Contemporary art and critical transgender infrastructures / Jeannine Tang.