Halal sex with trans girls
On pleasure marriages and Transphilia in the Shi'i anglosphere
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3624385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isaac Dwyer (Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 1-12 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09589236.2024.2443687 |
| OpenAlex | W4405632035 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
In this moment of acute epistemic violence against the notion of transgender being, opaque and shifting solidarities are afoot in the anglophone Shi’i community. Sayed Ammar Nakshawani, a cosmetically-enhanced religious lecturer and social media bombshell, has articulated a position against discursive violence perpetrated against transpersons through the sectarian religious doctrine of tabarra (dissociation), while many prominent anglophone Sunni leaders have joined the anti-trans panic. Nakshawani has instead focused on promoting the nikah mutʿah (‘temporary marriage’) as a spiritually pious sexual practice, and when asked about desires for and of transfemmes, affirms their permissibility. This essay engages recent digital media productions featuring Sayed Ammar Nakshawani, and reads his aesthetic performance as theophanic sexual pedagogy. All of the videos discussed are publicly available on YouTube. The message received by the viewer of these videos is as follows: under the right circumstances, sex with trans girls is halal. As the Western majoritarian narratives sharpen their knives to excise the spiritual and social legitimacy of transfemmes, Nakshawani makes space – however imperfect – for transgender desires, through embracing the mutability of gender, the ambiguities of biological sex, and the spiritual reward of pleasure
Aesthetics · Art · Doctrine · Legitimacy · Literature · Narrative · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transgender · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |