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A review by sebswann
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility by Eric A. Stanley, Tourmaline, Johanna Burton
5.0
“But if I am black or I am trans, and if people can’t see that, then what am I? Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish the difference between the self we hold inside of us and the self that is named by others.”
If you like anthologies about trans identity and visibility; through essays and conversations, this anthology grapples with questions and themes related to identity, art, performance, beauty, activism, and the contradictions of trans visibility. The texts range from free-flowing accessible conversations to academic theorizing with an elevated vocabulary; for me, they were hit or miss.
If you like anthologies about trans identity and visibility; through essays and conversations, this anthology grapples with questions and themes related to identity, art, performance, beauty, activism, and the contradictions of trans visibility. The texts range from free-flowing accessible conversations to academic theorizing with an elevated vocabulary; for me, they were hit or miss.