Trans Bovine Politics: Furry Tranimacies in Cringe
Keywords
Loading...
Authors
Issue Date
2025
Language
en
Document type
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Title
ISSN
Volume
Issue
Startpage
Endpage
DOI
Abstract
A trans bovine politics is a politics of engaging and becoming with real-life transspecies actors in the ongoing project of constructing and discovering figures whose speech and behavior contest reified queer/feminist discourses. Primarily focusing on the interaction between historical and contemporary narratives of transgender and transspecies actors, this thesis explores and problematizes anxieties of conflation between the historically vulnerable and politically contested category of transgender with seemingly frivolous transspecies identities; especially for the latter's position within public visibility as cringeworthy. Applying the methodology of feminist figuration, I bind together several trans and transspecies accounts under the name trans bovine; and explore the possibilities the inhabitation of this intersectional figure affords in the expansion of queer knowledges and affective political strategies.
Description
Citation
Supervisor
Faculty
Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen