Jeanne Vaccaro
Biographic Data
| ID | 237971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanne Vaccaro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaccaro |
| SIGNATURE | VACCARO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A conversation on trans technique
The Sexological Floorplan
This essay animates the concept-metaphor of the sexological floorplan across sites of sexological self-reflection in its incipient institutional form to propose a model of trans study. We begin by speculating on the relationship between the history of sexological incorporation and the hesitant institutionality of trans study. In the context of a racially segregated postwar American culture reorganizing its senses of normative gender and moral sex…
Curating Visual Archives of Sex
In this roundtable, four curators of exhibitions showcasing sexual archives and histories-with a particular focus on queer and trans experiences-were asked to reflect on their experiences working as scholars and artists across a range of museum and gallery formats. The exhibitions referred to below were Bring Your Own Body: Transgender between Archives and Aesthetics, curated by Jeanne Vaccaro (discussant) with Stamatina Gregory at The Cooper Uni…
After Sexology
Is sexology over? What does one do with its history, at once a seemingly remote relic and a persistent logic of biopolitics today? “Sexology and Its Afterlives” begins from the premise that the history of sexology lives in the infrastructures of the present. Locating the afterlives of sexology in material and aesthetic form, this introduction to the special issue engages the largely unmarked detritus of a disaggregated sexological project, whose …
Aids infrastructures, queer networks: Architecting the critical path
This essay pursues how HIV/AIDS and digital media transform one another’s historiographies. Working with the archive of activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000), the essay considers the role of AIDS organizing in the history of the Internet, and in establishing recursive relations between media formats. Kuromiya’s early adoption of Internet technology centered the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS, incarcerated people, and people of color to acce…
Learning in public
This essay offers an extended consideration of Cherríe Moraga and Amber Hollibaugh’s dialogue “What We’re Rollin Around in Bed With” to investigate questions about collectivity and consensus, duration, disappointment and reinvestment, vulnerability, and the suffocating effects of idealization in political practice. The essay meditates on co-writing, coupledom, collectivity, dialogue, consciousness raising, and pedagogy, which, each in their turn,…
Embodied Risk: Cassils
Research Article| February 01 2018 Embodied Risk: Cassils Jeanne Vaccaro Jeanne Vaccaro Jeanne Vaccaro is the curator of Bring Your Own Body: Transgender between Archives and Aesthetics, organized for the Cooper Union. She is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in feminist arts and sciences at the at University of California, Davis. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2018) 5 (1): 112–116. http…
“Gimme Gimme This, Gimme Gimme That”: Listening with, to, and through José Muñoz: The following is a transcript of a roundtable that took place on February 21, 2105 at the IASPM-US conference in Louis…
Look More at the Camera than at Me
This essay looks at the transgender archive of participant-observer photographer Brian Weil and how his haptic approach to visual material contributes to new reading practices around representational difference
Feelings and Fractals
The public artwork Crochet Coral Reef and the ecocatastrophe of coral erosion are a prompt in this essay to examine the geometric shapes and patterns of harm for transgender life. Connecting the handmade labor of making identity to markets of environmental crisis, the essay conceptualizes how diverse bodies of land, water, animals, and flesh shape the administration of survival, distribution of life, political economy, and our biosocial landscape…
Handmade
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Being with José
This coauthored introduction reflects on some of the impacts of José Esteban Muñoz’s life and work-from his scholarship through his friendship and mentoring to his collaborations in intellectual and social life. The coauthors emphasize Muñoz’s commitment to both the production of minoritarian knowledge and the thought of plural singularity, or what this issue as a whole indexes with the name “Being With
Transbiological bodies: Mine, yours, ours
Recently, an unspectacular eruption on Trans-Academics, a low-volume and usually low-key list serve of announcements and research queries, caught my eye. A user rallied against a previous post that
Felt matters
Felt Matters” explores the affective and textured labor of transgender embodiment and subjectivity alongside artist Emmett Ramstad's fiber work. The handmade illustrates unimagined configurations of the body, what I call non-predictive gender, while Ramstad's artwork foregrounds a mode of transmasculinity defined by its critique of patriarchal and ableist forms of bodily knowledge and production. The handmade labor of transgender embodiment empha…
Give me an F: Radical cheerleading and feminist performance
(2005). Give me an F: Radical cheerleading and feminist performance. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 43-50
Feelings and Fractals
The public artwork Crochet Coral Reef and the ecocatastrophe of coral erosion are a prompt in this essay to examine the geometric shapes and patterns of harm for transgender life. Connecting the handmade labor of making identity to markets of environmental crisis, the essay conceptualizes how diverse bodies of land, water, animals, and flesh shape the administration of survival, distribution of life, political economy, and our biosocial landscape…
Felt matters
Felt Matters” explores the affective and textured labor of transgender embodiment and subjectivity alongside artist Emmett Ramstad's fiber work. The handmade illustrates unimagined configurations of the body, what I call non-predictive gender, while Ramstad's artwork foregrounds a mode of transmasculinity defined by its critique of patriarchal and ableist forms of bodily knowledge and production. The handmade labor of transgender embodiment empha…
Handmade
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Being with José
This coauthored introduction reflects on some of the impacts of José Esteban Muñoz’s life and work-from his scholarship through his friendship and mentoring to his collaborations in intellectual and social life. The coauthors emphasize Muñoz’s commitment to both the production of minoritarian knowledge and the thought of plural singularity, or what this issue as a whole indexes with the name “Being With
Transbiological bodies: Mine, yours, ours
Recently, an unspectacular eruption on Trans-Academics, a low-volume and usually low-key list serve of announcements and research queries, caught my eye. A user rallied against a previous post that
Give me an F: Radical cheerleading and feminist performance
(2005). Give me an F: Radical cheerleading and feminist performance. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 43-50
Transbiological bodies: Mine, yours, ours
Recently, an unspectacular eruption on Trans-Academics, a low-volume and usually low-key list serve of announcements and research queries, caught my eye. A user rallied against a previous post that
Felt matters
Felt Matters” explores the affective and textured labor of transgender embodiment and subjectivity alongside artist Emmett Ramstad's fiber work. The handmade illustrates unimagined configurations of the body, what I call non-predictive gender, while Ramstad's artwork foregrounds a mode of transmasculinity defined by its critique of patriarchal and ableist forms of bodily knowledge and production. The handmade labor of transgender embodiment empha…
Handmade
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Being with José
This coauthored introduction reflects on some of the impacts of José Esteban Muñoz’s life and work-from his scholarship through his friendship and mentoring to his collaborations in intellectual and social life. The coauthors emphasize Muñoz’s commitment to both the production of minoritarian knowledge and the thought of plural singularity, or what this issue as a whole indexes with the name “Being With
“Gimme Gimme This, Gimme Gimme That”: Listening with, to, and through José Muñoz: The following is a transcript of a roundtable that took place on February 21, 2105 at the IASPM-US conference in Louis…
Look More at the Camera than at Me
This essay looks at the transgender archive of participant-observer photographer Brian Weil and how his haptic approach to visual material contributes to new reading practices around representational difference
Feelings and Fractals
The public artwork Crochet Coral Reef and the ecocatastrophe of coral erosion are a prompt in this essay to examine the geometric shapes and patterns of harm for transgender life. Connecting the handmade labor of making identity to markets of environmental crisis, the essay conceptualizes how diverse bodies of land, water, animals, and flesh shape the administration of survival, distribution of life, political economy, and our biosocial landscape…
Embodied Risk: Cassils
Research Article| February 01 2018 Embodied Risk: Cassils Jeanne Vaccaro Jeanne Vaccaro Jeanne Vaccaro is the curator of Bring Your Own Body: Transgender between Archives and Aesthetics, organized for the Cooper Union. She is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in feminist arts and sciences at the at University of California, Davis. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2018) 5 (1): 112–116. http…
Learning in public
This essay offers an extended consideration of Cherríe Moraga and Amber Hollibaugh’s dialogue “What We’re Rollin Around in Bed With” to investigate questions about collectivity and consensus, duration, disappointment and reinvestment, vulnerability, and the suffocating effects of idealization in political practice. The essay meditates on co-writing, coupledom, collectivity, dialogue, consciousness raising, and pedagogy, which, each in their turn,…
Aids infrastructures, queer networks: Architecting the critical path
This essay pursues how HIV/AIDS and digital media transform one another’s historiographies. Working with the archive of activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000), the essay considers the role of AIDS organizing in the history of the Internet, and in establishing recursive relations between media formats. Kuromiya’s early adoption of Internet technology centered the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS, incarcerated people, and people of color to acce…
After Sexology
Is sexology over? What does one do with its history, at once a seemingly remote relic and a persistent logic of biopolitics today? “Sexology and Its Afterlives” begins from the premise that the history of sexology lives in the infrastructures of the present. Locating the afterlives of sexology in material and aesthetic form, this introduction to the special issue engages the largely unmarked detritus of a disaggregated sexological project, whose …
Curating Visual Archives of Sex
In this roundtable, four curators of exhibitions showcasing sexual archives and histories-with a particular focus on queer and trans experiences-were asked to reflect on their experiences working as scholars and artists across a range of museum and gallery formats. The exhibitions referred to below were Bring Your Own Body: Transgender between Archives and Aesthetics, curated by Jeanne Vaccaro (discussant) with Stamatina Gregory at The Cooper Uni…
The Sexological Floorplan
This essay animates the concept-metaphor of the sexological floorplan across sites of sexological self-reflection in its incipient institutional form to propose a model of trans study. We begin by speculating on the relationship between the history of sexological incorporation and the hesitant institutionality of trans study. In the context of a racially segregated postwar American culture reorganizing its senses of normative gender and moral sex…
A conversation on trans technique
Sociology (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (4 works) · Queer (4 works)