Tag:Trans Materialism
The “Encounter” is not Important: Living with My Transfeminine Beard
Many people assume that queer rights movements are primarily about acceptance or visibility. But this perspective risks reducing queerness to a plea for recognition within the boundaries of a cisnormative world. I want to suggest something else: that trans materialism – as a theory, a framework, and a lived practice – is not merely an …
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Right to the City – Trans Materialism and Third Spaces in Berlin
Public spaces are shaped by us and, in turn, they shape us. Too often, however, they are commodified, reduced to grids and coordinates designed for control, measurement, and consumption (Lefebvre 1996). Such commodification results in spaces that can feel sterile and soulless, affecting those who enter them and imposing certain behavioral rules. Examples range from …
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