Julian Gill-Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Gill-Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill-Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | GILL-PETERSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Promise of Trans Critique
In “Transgender Studies: Queer Theory’s Evil Twin,” part of the 2004 forum “Thinking Sex/Thinking Gender,” Susan Stryker underlined a critical way in which trans people had become exceptionalized by a certain strand of queer theory, serving as figures for the antibinary subversion of gender that left sexual subjectivity off the hook in accounting for itself as a default cis category. This abstraction into figuration was, precisely, a turning away…
Histories of the Transgender Child
Trans of Color Critique before Transsexuality
How has a reliance on the medical archive distorted the intelligibility of trans of color life in the past? This essay interrogates the limit points of black trans and trans of color life in the early twentieth century. Examining a case at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from the 1930s where medical protocol was confounded by a black trans patient's refusal to cooperate, the author asks what the silence and unknowability produced around this person's …
Implanting Plasticity Into Sex and Trans/Gender: Animal and Child Metaphors in the History of Endocrinology
This essay argues that the reigning medical and scientific understanding of the endocrine system, which insists on its fundamental biological plasticity, was historically constructed through a dual child–animal metaphor. The work accomplished by such organic metaphors, as Donna Haraway terms them, returns us to the endocrine laboratories and clinics in which they were built in Europe and the United States in the first half of the twentieth centur…
The Value of the Future: The Child as Human Capital and the Neoliberal Labor of Race
The Value of the Future:The Child as Human Capital and the Neoliberal Labor of Race Julian Gill-Peterson (bio) "A mind is a terrible thing to waste. But a wonderful thing to invest in." This slogan greeted pedestrians during a recent winter at a bus stop on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The bus ad was for Better Futures, a simulated stock option that capitalizes on a meta-awareness of financial capitalism's role in the destruction of public educat…
Sexting girls: Technological Sovereignty and the Digital
This essay explores the contemporary fact of girls sexting. Instead of theoretically granting girls a form of technological sovereignty while sexting as sexual empowerment, it pauses to take a selfie of the adult subjects – parents, educators, and sex-positive feminists and queers – attached to this form of agency for girls. If sexuality remains an alluring reparative trap by offering, through a reverse discourse sustained by the plasticity of gi…
The Technical Capacities of the Body
This essay travels with the testosterone molecule to pursue a theory of racialized and trans embodiment as technical capacities of all bodies, not only of the trans-of-color subject subordinated to racially normative and gender-normative white and cisgender bodies (though the hormone molecule is implicated in those relations). It focuses on technology to think race and transgender together, from a common conceptual ground, rather than as separate…
Testo junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
Beatriz Preciado critically revises and reanimates the social constructionist consensus of feminist theories of gender in Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. B
Haunting the Queer Spaces of Aids
This essay considers the mutation of the temporality of HIV/AIDS in the United States from epidemic time to endemic time - the biopolitical distribution of life and death capacities across populations - as a critical noncoincidence of the present with itself. That the present moment is "out of joint" for the two generations separated by the interval between epidemic and endemic time is the motivation for asking a series of ethical, historical, an…
The Technical Capacities of the Body
This essay travels with the testosterone molecule to pursue a theory of racialized and trans embodiment as technical capacities of all bodies, not only of the trans-of-color subject subordinated to racially normative and gender-normative white and cisgender bodies (though the hormone molecule is implicated in those relations). It focuses on technology to think race and transgender together, from a common conceptual ground, rather than as separate…
The Value of the Future: The Child as Human Capital and the Neoliberal Labor of Race
The Value of the Future:The Child as Human Capital and the Neoliberal Labor of Race Julian Gill-Peterson (bio) "A mind is a terrible thing to waste. But a wonderful thing to invest in." This slogan greeted pedestrians during a recent winter at a bus stop on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The bus ad was for Better Futures, a simulated stock option that capitalizes on a meta-awareness of financial capitalism's role in the destruction of public educat…
Haunting the Queer Spaces of Aids
This essay considers the mutation of the temporality of HIV/AIDS in the United States from epidemic time to endemic time - the biopolitical distribution of life and death capacities across populations - as a critical noncoincidence of the present with itself. That the present moment is "out of joint" for the two generations separated by the interval between epidemic and endemic time is the motivation for asking a series of ethical, historical, an…
The Promise of Trans Critique
In “Transgender Studies: Queer Theory’s Evil Twin,” part of the 2004 forum “Thinking Sex/Thinking Gender,” Susan Stryker underlined a critical way in which trans people had become exceptionalized by a certain strand of queer theory, serving as figures for the antibinary subversion of gender that left sexual subjectivity off the hook in accounting for itself as a default cis category. This abstraction into figuration was, precisely, a turning away…
Trans of Color Critique before Transsexuality
How has a reliance on the medical archive distorted the intelligibility of trans of color life in the past? This essay interrogates the limit points of black trans and trans of color life in the early twentieth century. Examining a case at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from the 1930s where medical protocol was confounded by a black trans patient's refusal to cooperate, the author asks what the silence and unknowability produced around this person's …
Implanting Plasticity Into Sex and Trans/Gender: Animal and Child Metaphors in the History of Endocrinology
This essay argues that the reigning medical and scientific understanding of the endocrine system, which insists on its fundamental biological plasticity, was historically constructed through a dual child–animal metaphor. The work accomplished by such organic metaphors, as Donna Haraway terms them, returns us to the endocrine laboratories and clinics in which they were built in Europe and the United States in the first half of the twentieth centur…
Haunting the Queer Spaces of Aids
This essay considers the mutation of the temporality of HIV/AIDS in the United States from epidemic time to endemic time - the biopolitical distribution of life and death capacities across populations - as a critical noncoincidence of the present with itself. That the present moment is "out of joint" for the two generations separated by the interval between epidemic and endemic time is the motivation for asking a series of ethical, historical, an…
The Technical Capacities of the Body
This essay travels with the testosterone molecule to pursue a theory of racialized and trans embodiment as technical capacities of all bodies, not only of the trans-of-color subject subordinated to racially normative and gender-normative white and cisgender bodies (though the hormone molecule is implicated in those relations). It focuses on technology to think race and transgender together, from a common conceptual ground, rather than as separate…
Testo junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
Beatriz Preciado critically revises and reanimates the social constructionist consensus of feminist theories of gender in Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. B
The Value of the Future: The Child as Human Capital and the Neoliberal Labor of Race
The Value of the Future:The Child as Human Capital and the Neoliberal Labor of Race Julian Gill-Peterson (bio) "A mind is a terrible thing to waste. But a wonderful thing to invest in." This slogan greeted pedestrians during a recent winter at a bus stop on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The bus ad was for Better Futures, a simulated stock option that capitalizes on a meta-awareness of financial capitalism's role in the destruction of public educat…
Sexting girls: Technological Sovereignty and the Digital
This essay explores the contemporary fact of girls sexting. Instead of theoretically granting girls a form of technological sovereignty while sexting as sexual empowerment, it pauses to take a selfie of the adult subjects – parents, educators, and sex-positive feminists and queers – attached to this form of agency for girls. If sexuality remains an alluring reparative trap by offering, through a reverse discourse sustained by the plasticity of gi…
Implanting Plasticity Into Sex and Trans/Gender: Animal and Child Metaphors in the History of Endocrinology
This essay argues that the reigning medical and scientific understanding of the endocrine system, which insists on its fundamental biological plasticity, was historically constructed through a dual child–animal metaphor. The work accomplished by such organic metaphors, as Donna Haraway terms them, returns us to the endocrine laboratories and clinics in which they were built in Europe and the United States in the first half of the twentieth centur…
Histories of the Transgender Child
Trans of Color Critique before Transsexuality
How has a reliance on the medical archive distorted the intelligibility of trans of color life in the past? This essay interrogates the limit points of black trans and trans of color life in the early twentieth century. Examining a case at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from the 1930s where medical protocol was confounded by a black trans patient's refusal to cooperate, the author asks what the silence and unknowability produced around this person's …
The Promise of Trans Critique
In “Transgender Studies: Queer Theory’s Evil Twin,” part of the 2004 forum “Thinking Sex/Thinking Gender,” Susan Stryker underlined a critical way in which trans people had become exceptionalized by a certain strand of queer theory, serving as figures for the antibinary subversion of gender that left sexual subjectivity off the hook in accounting for itself as a default cis category. This abstraction into figuration was, precisely, a turning away…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works)