Lieks Hettinga
Biographic Data
| ID | 6915970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lieks Hettinga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lieks |
| FAMILY NAME | Hettinga |
| SIGNATURE | HETTINGA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gender Studies, Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9890-4638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Trans-crip adjacency
This article explores how the entanglement of transness and disability can be understood through a performance of adjacency. The author approaches this question through a close reading of the video-performance Shape of a Right Statement (2008) by Asian-American artist Wu Tsang, in which she re-stages the video statement In My Language (2007) by the late autism activist Mel Baggs (1980–2020). Shape of a Right Statement deploys three key formal tec…
Extractive Abandonment
This article locates trans-crip affinities in how transgender and disabled embodiment function as a site of value extraction for both statecraft and capital accumulation. In doing so, this article situates itself between emerging scholarship at the intersection of transgender and disability studies, and materialist analyses of health care. Nascent trans-crip theorizing has emphasized the centrality of “alignment” and “incongruence” as ways of des…
To be seen as one is? Wounded epistemologies in Jesse Darling’s The Ballad of Saint Jerome
This article analyses how formations of transgender and disability aesthetics navigate the demand for sovereign self-representation. Through a close reading of Jesse Darling’s 2018 exhibition The Ballad of Saint Jerome, this article addresses the tension between desiring recognition - “to be seen as one is” – and refusing the terms of visibility and legibility that structure hegemonic visual regimes. As such, this article situates contemporary tr…
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To be seen as one is? Wounded epistemologies in Jesse Darling’s The Ballad of Saint Jerome
This article analyses how formations of transgender and disability aesthetics navigate the demand for sovereign self-representation. Through a close reading of Jesse Darling’s 2018 exhibition The Ballad of Saint Jerome, this article addresses the tension between desiring recognition - “to be seen as one is” – and refusing the terms of visibility and legibility that structure hegemonic visual regimes. As such, this article situates contemporary tr…
Trans-crip adjacency
This article explores how the entanglement of transness and disability can be understood through a performance of adjacency. The author approaches this question through a close reading of the video-performance Shape of a Right Statement (2008) by Asian-American artist Wu Tsang, in which she re-stages the video statement In My Language (2007) by the late autism activist Mel Baggs (1980–2020). Shape of a Right Statement deploys three key formal tec…
Extractive Abandonment
This article locates trans-crip affinities in how transgender and disabled embodiment function as a site of value extraction for both statecraft and capital accumulation. In doing so, this article situates itself between emerging scholarship at the intersection of transgender and disability studies, and materialist analyses of health care. Nascent trans-crip theorizing has emphasized the centrality of “alignment” and “incongruence” as ways of des…
Disability Rights and Representation (2 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (2 works) · Abandonment (legal (1 work) · Alienation (1 work) · Analogy (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work) · Ballad (1 work) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (1 work) · Exhibition (1 work) · Exoticism (1 work)