Tranimacies

Eliza Steinbock, Assistant Professor Cultural Analysis, Leiden University, Netherlands. Author of Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change (Duke, 2019), co-editor of Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience (Routledge, 2020), project-leader of "The Critical Visitor" consortium, developing intersectional approaches for inclusive heritage (2020-2025). Marianna Szczygielska, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany. Author of scholarly publications on the history of zoos, human-animal relations and queer studies, and feminist activism, co-editor of "Plantarium: Human-Vegetal Ecologies" special issue for Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience, (2019).Anthony Clair Wagner, Senior Lecturer Design, Linnaeus University, Sweden. Author of several articles on trans, monstrosity and art, for example "Visible Monstrosity as Empowerment," in Transgender Studies Quarterly 2.2. Workshop leader of the Monster Workshop and artist.

• Introduction: Thinking Linking Eliza Steinbock, Marianna Szczygielska, and Anthony Clair WagnerSection I: Transhistories of the Present1. Subclinical Routine #11, or "the True Story of a Miraculous Transformation"Trish Salah2. Impossibility of That Eva Hayward and Che Gossett3. Transcending the Human/Non-Human Divide. The Geo-politics and Body-politics of Being and Perception, and Decolonial Art Madina Tlostanova4. Precedence, Trans* and the DecolonialDaniel B. Coleman and Rolando Vázquez5. Implanting Plasticity into Sex and Trans/Gender. Animal and Child Metaphors in the History of EndocrinologyJules Gill-Peterson6. Hyenas and Hormones. Transpecies Encounters and the Traffic in HumanimalsMarianna SzczygielskaSection II: Lessons from the Bestiary7. Ripple, Angel QuakeTrish Salah8. Ego Hippo. The Subject as MetaphorFlorentin Félix Morin9. Menagerie À TranimalsLindsay Kelley10. BlurredMarta Ostajewska11. Monkey Business. Trans*, Animacy, and the Boundaries of KindDylan McCarthy Blackston12. Feral Biopolitics. Animal Bodies and/as Border TechnologiesHyaesin Yoon13. Queer Affordances. The Human as Trans*EcologyTarsh BatesSection III: #AnimatingEphemera14. Croesus, at Least in Name Trish Salah15. Catties and T-Selfies. On the "I" and the "We" in Trans-Animal Cute AestheticsEliza Steinbock16. Biohacking Gender. Cyborgs, Coloniality, and the Pharmacopornographic EraHil Malatino17. Trans*versal Animacies and the Mattering of Black Trans* Political Life Abraham Weil18. Trans AnimismsAbram J. Lewis19. InterchangesMyra Hird and Harlan Weaver