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Male Homosexuality in 21st-Century Thailand: A Longitudinal Study of Young, Rural, Same-Sex-Attracted Men Coming of Age.

By Jan W. de Lind van Wijngaarden.

Anthem Press; 2021.

Fat Queer Ecology

As climate change-related disasters continue to affect both human and more-than-human ecologies, it is increasingly evident that fatphobia influences which beings are worthy of protection. Although queer and disability studies scholars have critiqued ecology research that does not adequately attend to socio-political landscapes, fatphobia's links to environmental exploitation have gone largely untheorized. In this thesis, I imagine what a fat queer ecology might look like by theorizing different fat, queer strategies for approaching environmental justice in the United States. By constellating these practices, I account for ways that fat, queer justice becomes environmental justice, and vice versa. I argue that considering eco-criticism and environmental justice through a fat, queer lens opens alternate ways of forming kinship with more-than-human ecologies.

In Chapter One, I demonstrate how fat, Black leatherdyke "fuck sessions" in pornographer Shine Louise Houston's Crash Pad Series suggest possibilities for not-quite-human and more-than-human porosities. In Chapter Two, I focus on Claudia Hermano's photographic series, TIL WE ARE FULL, and my personal encounters with the landscapes of the American Southwest. I theorize enfolding, a process where fat folds encircle other bodies and catalyze a disruption of a bounded sense of self. Finally, in Chapter Three, I assert that the digestive system in Neb Berry's A Monster Made of Many Mouths provides insights into fat, queer more-than-human kinship. Throughout this thesis, I reassert the inextricability of fatphobia and ecological violence, which are both ongoing systems of exploitation that cast aside human and more-than-human bodies alike for capitalist gain.

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Abstract

As a deluge of anti-trans legislation surges across the United States, trans and queer subjects are left uniquely and unevenly haunted by the afterlives of assigning sex. Drawing upon the insights of psychoanalytic theory, continental philosophy, and trans and queer studies, this essay develops a reading of how anti-trans lawmaking generates a repetition of the assignment's mark upon the body that, I suggest, threatens the subject's very relation to meaning and the future. In doing so, I argue that the assignment of sex circulates as an undead letter across the landscape of administrative law, repeatedly tethering trans and queer lives to an unchosen and ostensibly immutable past. Attending to the conceptual framework of necropolitics, this essay argues that anti-trans legislation enacts a phenomenon that I describe, in the end, as administrative maiming, a concept which specifies how anti-trans laws leave trans and queer lives purposefully inhibited – indeed wounded – in their efforts to rewrite their relation to the signifiers inscribed at birth.

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If you don't speak Postmodern Feminist Gobbledygook, what the author is claiming is that recording sex accurately when a baby is born is a form of "maiming," leaving a permanent, lifelong "wound."

But, you know, cutting off a girl's breasts or a boy's testicles is just "healthcare." 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♀️