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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2018)

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence.

Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials—early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films—Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. In tracing the twinned genealogies of blackness and transness, Snorton follows multiple trajectories, from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved black women by J. Marion Sims, the “father of American gynecology,” to the negation of blackness that makes transnormativity possible.

by C. Riley Snorton

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C. Riley Snorton earned his Ph.D. in Communication and Culture, with graduate certificates in Africana Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. He is a recipient of a predoctoral fellowship at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University (2009), a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Pomona College (2010) and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (2015).

Snorton’s research and teaching expertise include cultural theory, queer and transgender theory and history, Africana studies, performance studies, and popular culture.

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Dolce & Gabbana new campaign 2020 for women

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My whole day just got better.

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A collection of custom Magic The Gathering cards based on Steven Universe.

A very constructive use of my time. Also, not really terribly well balanced.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd-FTDsh5t0

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A museum in Japan spends most of its day refusing entry to 2 cats trying to get in @bijutsu1 https://twitter.com/jiffington/status/1062471505496469504/video/1

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Japanese designer Haruki Nakamura creates interactive paper toys.

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via weheartit

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And she followed him! She could have chosen to travel along with Sokka, Toph and Suki, to be in line where Aang may have turned up, but she unwaveringly decided to join Zuko.... UGH 

Friend: h—

Me: I think it’s so meaningful that when Iroh told Zuko that he shouldn’t attempt to take on Azula by himself the first person he immediately turned to was Katara. I mean, everything in Zuko’s life up till that point had been building up to an ultimate showdown against his sister and when asked to bring a companion to the most emotionally, physically, and mentally challenging event in his life, Zuko automatically wanted Katara by his side. I just think it’s crazy that—

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Ravenclaw bitches

Sorting Hat

I’m not doing the sorting anymore, but you can do it yourself:

Just count which house most of your placements show. If this doesn’t give a clear result, check your dominant element as an additional placement.

FIRE - GRYFFINDOR

EARTH - HUFFLEPUFF

AIR - RAVENCLAW

WATER - SLYTHERIN

P.S. open image for better quality! 😉

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Via u/nishattata201

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When a frog eats a firefly. From here