Abstract:

'Our prison turns to rain in their hands'

Homie, Danez Smith (remixed pronouns)

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The recent pivot on hormone therapy from an ‘irrevisible decision’ to potential COVID treatment for cisgender patients (New York Times 27/04/2020) acts as an example of the battle fatigue and complex social death of trans* individuals who navigate biopolitical governance which is no longer ‘to foster life or disallow it’ but ‘to foster life by disallowing it’ (de Giorgi, 2006). I propose a boychild video performance and short critical reflection on a ‘public feeling’ approach to reclaim the battle fatigue of ‘trans* exhaustion’

For if we are taught by our faggot foremothers and forefathers that in times of scarcity and need, to respond in abundance, boychild's performance reclaims exhaustion on a dance floor to conceive a liveable trans* world.

 

How can we think about the layered remixing of gender, genre and performative intervention as a antidote to trans*gender exhaustion and an alternative world (un/re)making going forward?

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