Gender Migration, Passing and Post-Recessionary Intelligibility

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Konstantinos Argyriou

Abstract

The postfeminist, post-recessionary era marks a shift to interiority. Unintelligible, excluded, alienated and precarious bodies remain out of this register. Those bodies combat the classification systems that are unable to open up to the multiplicities of corporeal experience. After the latest modifications of the diagnostic manual ICD in 2018, a door has been seemingly been opened institutionally for trans identities and corporealities. Nonetheless, through a social stance, those who have access to services, knowledge, or social support are those who enter the margins of passing. This text examines the tensions between the conquest
of intelligibility and the free exploration of the non-binary. We perform a critical, positioned reading of some theoretical proposals that have recently altered our understanding of trans people. The notion of «dispossession» is key for this reading. The text surrounds these positionings through three readings: a representational, a systemic-prospective, and a crosscultural one.

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Argyriou, K. (2021). Gender Migration, Passing and Post-Recessionary Intelligibility. Asparkía. Investigació Feminista, (39), 213–232. https://doi.org/10.6035/asparkia.4563
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Konstantinos Argyriou, Instituto de Filosofía CSIC

Contratado Predoctoral FPU, Departamento de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad, Instituto de Filosofía, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

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