ABSTRACT

To put it bluntly: This essay centers trans people fucking. Respectability politics implores us to offer a content warning of sorts. Though the impetus for such a warning is hard to discern. In respectable terms a content warning might read accordingly: This chapter contains explicit sexual content including sexually charged and derogatory language and imagery. However, as folks who embody multiply marginalized locations, narratives of trans sexualities and desires in bodies like our own are anything but explicit nor are they derogatory. They are revolutionary precisely because they are life sustaining; extraordinary and anything but explicit.