Jules Gill-Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 179506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jules Gill-Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jules |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill-Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | GILL-PETERSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
General Editor's Introduction
In 1969, a trans woman named Denise D'Anne made the long trip from Los Angeles to Casablanca for gender-affirming surgery with gynecologist Georges Burou. D'Anne was able to bypass the scarcity of quality surgery in the United States through a private clinic abroad because she worked in the executive offices of a large railroad company. When she returned home after recovering, however, her boss not only dismissed her for transitioning but also bl…
Who Is the Subject of Gender Self-determination
This essay poses two critical questions about trans politics as elaborated in the Global North today: Who is the subject of gender self-determination? And what, precisely, is mobilized by tying political sovereignty to gendered persecution and ethical world-making, trans or otherwise? To answer those questions, both liberal and antistate iterations of gender self-determination are read through the lens of Judith Butler's writing on the fractious …
Letting The Domestic Fail
Children of the Sexual Politics of Abortion and Transition
This article elucidates the connection between anti-trans and anti-abortion political movements, looking closely at laws banning gender-affirming care in the wake of the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson decision in 2022. In particular, the article claims, "anti-abortion and anti-trans political successes are floated by a moral crisis over a fantasized, imperiled child
General Editor's Introduction
I went to graduate school for many reasons, not all of which I was conscious of at the time.Toward the end of my undergraduate degree, I had been a bit listless.Coursework in history and French had held my attention, but living in Canada's capital city had disillusioned me to the empty liberal promises of the grown-up office jobs my peers were landing.I contemplated applying to law school but resented the idea of taking the law so seriously.Aroun…
The Trans Woman of Color’s History of Sexuality
Trans Auto-Antonym Theory (The Masc-Femme Dialectic)
Despite its imperative to include all gendered positions under one umbrella, 'trans' is continually riven by intramural confrontation over the differences between its masculine and feminine iterations. Whether in political organizing, on social media or in the pages of academic trans theory, it sometimes seems like 'trans' is subject to an interminable and gendered custody battle. Dissatisfied with the terms of masc-femme antagonism, this essay u…
Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender by Stef M. Shuster
Toward a historiography of the lesbian transsexual, or the Terf’s nightmare
This essay asks after the possibility of making the transsexual lesbian signify as a historical mode of sexuality, as a contribution to an anti-TERF method in trans and lesbian studies. What logics of mid twentieth century gender and sexuality are responsible for the opacity of transsexual and transvestite lesbians prior to the 1970s, despite the ample evidence that desire between femmes played a central role in trans social life? To move towards…
General Editor's Introduction
Thinking with Trans Now
This roundtable considers trans theory’s status as a site of thinking racialization, empire, political economy, and materiality in the current historical, institutional, and political moment. We ask, what does it mean to think trans in a time of crisis?, and what is the place of critique in a crisis?, acknowledging that global crises are not insulated from trans, and trans is not insulated from the world. This roundtable looks to materialist form…
Plasticity and Fungibility
This article critically examines the role of neurobiology in the work of Sylvia Wynter through her own “pieza framework.” Wynter argues that the pieza, the figure of exchange invented at the beginning of the slave trade, haunts contemporary political economy through multiple forms of human fungibility. Reading this intervention alongside and against her deployment of neural plasticity, the author reconsiders the relationship between race, gender,…
Reversible Human
This article explores the history and practice of rectal feeding, an anachronistic obstetric practice used recently as a form of medical rape in US Central Intelligence Agency prisons. The article outlines how racialized themes of counterterrorist interrogation intersect with behavioralist logics of torture in CIA uses of rectal feeding on Muslim prisoners captured in Pakistan and Afghanistan, linking these prisoners to US security state fears of…
Trans* Plasticity and the Ontology of Race and Species
During the 1920s, French surgeon Serge Voronoff became an international sensation for his technique of grafting chimpanzee testicular matter into human testicles. Félicien Champsaur’s 1929 popular speculative fiction novel, Nora, la guenon devenue femme (Nora, the Ape-Woman), imagines the possibilities of human-ape ontological and erotic proximity suggested by Voronoff’s practice of gland xenotransplantation, or transspecies transplantation. This…
The Reeducation of Race
This article traces the emergence of racial plasticity in the discourse of midcentury liberal internationalism and antiracism, focusing on the 1950 Statement on Race by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The author argues that the statement is both an important precursor to contemporary celebrations of plasticity and an object lesson in the conceptual and political limitations of plasticity as a response to race a…
Strategic Inessentialism
The following introduction provides an overview to the Dossier on COVID-19, curated by Jules Gill-Peterson and Grace Lavery. This introduction explores how the pandemic has intensified the inessential denotation grafted onto trans people's material lives through health care, policing, incarceration, immigration, and racism. The ongoing crisis in academic labor and its uncertain pandemic futures are, similarly, an important place for trans studies…
Histories of the Transgender Child
Toward a historiography of the lesbian transsexual, or the Terf’s nightmare
This essay asks after the possibility of making the transsexual lesbian signify as a historical mode of sexuality, as a contribution to an anti-TERF method in trans and lesbian studies. What logics of mid twentieth century gender and sexuality are responsible for the opacity of transsexual and transvestite lesbians prior to the 1970s, despite the ample evidence that desire between femmes played a central role in trans social life? To move towards…
General Editor's Introduction
The Trans Woman of Color’s History of Sexuality
Histories of the Transgender Child
Thinking with Trans Now
This roundtable considers trans theory’s status as a site of thinking racialization, empire, political economy, and materiality in the current historical, institutional, and political moment. We ask, what does it mean to think trans in a time of crisis?, and what is the place of critique in a crisis?, acknowledging that global crises are not insulated from trans, and trans is not insulated from the world. This roundtable looks to materialist form…
Plasticity and Fungibility
This article critically examines the role of neurobiology in the work of Sylvia Wynter through her own “pieza framework.” Wynter argues that the pieza, the figure of exchange invented at the beginning of the slave trade, haunts contemporary political economy through multiple forms of human fungibility. Reading this intervention alongside and against her deployment of neural plasticity, the author reconsiders the relationship between race, gender,…
Reversible Human
This article explores the history and practice of rectal feeding, an anachronistic obstetric practice used recently as a form of medical rape in US Central Intelligence Agency prisons. The article outlines how racialized themes of counterterrorist interrogation intersect with behavioralist logics of torture in CIA uses of rectal feeding on Muslim prisoners captured in Pakistan and Afghanistan, linking these prisoners to US security state fears of…
Trans* Plasticity and the Ontology of Race and Species
During the 1920s, French surgeon Serge Voronoff became an international sensation for his technique of grafting chimpanzee testicular matter into human testicles. Félicien Champsaur’s 1929 popular speculative fiction novel, Nora, la guenon devenue femme (Nora, the Ape-Woman), imagines the possibilities of human-ape ontological and erotic proximity suggested by Voronoff’s practice of gland xenotransplantation, or transspecies transplantation. This…
The Reeducation of Race
This article traces the emergence of racial plasticity in the discourse of midcentury liberal internationalism and antiracism, focusing on the 1950 Statement on Race by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The author argues that the statement is both an important precursor to contemporary celebrations of plasticity and an object lesson in the conceptual and political limitations of plasticity as a response to race a…
Strategic Inessentialism
The following introduction provides an overview to the Dossier on COVID-19, curated by Jules Gill-Peterson and Grace Lavery. This introduction explores how the pandemic has intensified the inessential denotation grafted onto trans people's material lives through health care, policing, incarceration, immigration, and racism. The ongoing crisis in academic labor and its uncertain pandemic futures are, similarly, an important place for trans studies…
General Editor's Introduction
Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender by Stef M. Shuster
Toward a historiography of the lesbian transsexual, or the Terf’s nightmare
This essay asks after the possibility of making the transsexual lesbian signify as a historical mode of sexuality, as a contribution to an anti-TERF method in trans and lesbian studies. What logics of mid twentieth century gender and sexuality are responsible for the opacity of transsexual and transvestite lesbians prior to the 1970s, despite the ample evidence that desire between femmes played a central role in trans social life? To move towards…
General Editor's Introduction
I went to graduate school for many reasons, not all of which I was conscious of at the time.Toward the end of my undergraduate degree, I had been a bit listless.Coursework in history and French had held my attention, but living in Canada's capital city had disillusioned me to the empty liberal promises of the grown-up office jobs my peers were landing.I contemplated applying to law school but resented the idea of taking the law so seriously.Aroun…
The Trans Woman of Color’s History of Sexuality
Trans Auto-Antonym Theory (The Masc-Femme Dialectic)
Despite its imperative to include all gendered positions under one umbrella, 'trans' is continually riven by intramural confrontation over the differences between its masculine and feminine iterations. Whether in political organizing, on social media or in the pages of academic trans theory, it sometimes seems like 'trans' is subject to an interminable and gendered custody battle. Dissatisfied with the terms of masc-femme antagonism, this essay u…
General Editor's Introduction
In 1969, a trans woman named Denise D'Anne made the long trip from Los Angeles to Casablanca for gender-affirming surgery with gynecologist Georges Burou. D'Anne was able to bypass the scarcity of quality surgery in the United States through a private clinic abroad because she worked in the executive offices of a large railroad company. When she returned home after recovering, however, her boss not only dismissed her for transitioning but also bl…
Who Is the Subject of Gender Self-determination
This essay poses two critical questions about trans politics as elaborated in the Global North today: Who is the subject of gender self-determination? And what, precisely, is mobilized by tying political sovereignty to gendered persecution and ethical world-making, trans or otherwise? To answer those questions, both liberal and antistate iterations of gender self-determination are read through the lens of Judith Butler's writing on the fractious …
Letting The Domestic Fail
Children of the Sexual Politics of Abortion and Transition
This article elucidates the connection between anti-trans and anti-abortion political movements, looking closely at laws banning gender-affirming care in the wake of the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson decision in 2022. In particular, the article claims, "anti-abortion and anti-trans political successes are floated by a moral crisis over a fantasized, imperiled child
Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)