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- Title
Trans* Joy as Resistance: Possessor, Tangerine, and Affective Trans* Embodiment under Capitalism.
- Authors
Rage, Saturn Sigourney
- Abstract
Theorist Lauren Berlant defines inconvenience as an affect, one exerted by dominant forces onto subordinate populations. In the same way subordinate populations exert inconvenient affects as well, creating a dynamic of dominant and subordinate inconvenience through which social power relationships may be understood. Following this structure, this article charts the dominant and subordinate affects exerted by capitalism and trans* bodies, respectively, and how capitalist oppression responds to and shapes trans* embodiment. Through an autotheoretical lens, this relationship is here examined in the 2020 film Possessor and the 2015 film Tangerine, highlighting the points of interaction between trans*ness and capitalism's state structures of domination and oppression. Ultimately, I point to trans* joy as an affect that presents a danger to capitalism's domination, providing space for trans* persons to thrive.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AFFECT (Psychology); CAPITALISM; JOY; STATE capitalism; POWER (Social sciences); OPPRESSION
- Publication
Screen Bodies, 2023, Vol 8, Issue 2, p42
- ISSN
2374-7552
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/screen.2023.080205