ABSTRACT
In this interview, trans* studies historian and theorist Susan Stryker reflects on the possibilities of trans*-breath-as-revolution and the reality of trans* lives in the wake of the Trump election, originally discussed in a keynote lecture given for the 10th International Somatechics Conference in December 2016. Speaking two years after presenting the keynote, Stryker describes how ‘breath’, as well as discourses of violence, oppression and resistance inform her new book, What Transpires Now: Transgender Histories and Futures in the Present Tense. This interview also discusses: the visibility and increased targetability of trans* people; discourses of colonialism and biopower; the phenomenology of breath; new materialism and neovitalism; and queer philosophies of life.
