ABSTRACT
The queering of autoethnography signals the "something more" that might lie behind or beyond the surface of experience. Both queer autoethnography and Mx transcode not only the language but also the meaning of gender in ways that respond to the aliveness of queer and trans subjectivities in the 21st century. Trans and genderqueer scholarship represents a rhizomatic proliferation of identity performances. The bodies of literature about coded bodies and bodies-who-code can be brought together around considerations of queer bodies' social functions as 'code,' a performative language that does and has always reflected dominant culture, in both its resistance to normativity as well as its patterning. Queerness is a particular kind of vitality affect, a form of aliveness, or wide-awakeness that assembles in difference and is practiced—both in failure and virtuosity—outside of normalizing temporalities and geographies.
