Trans Exploits

Jian Neo Chen is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Racial Trans Technologies  11. Cultures: Performing Racial Trans Senses  302. Networks: TRANScoding Biogenetics and Orgasm in the Transnational Digital Economy  593. Memory: The Times and Territories of Trans Women of Color Becoming  754. Movement: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Digital Activisms and U.S. Transnational Empire  101Conclusion. Trans Voice in the House  135Notes  149References  157Index  173

“Trans Exploits is a valuable meditation on unsettling and redefining the relationship between trans of color culture and technologies of representation. . . . This text charts numerous points of entry for any reader interested in the converging histories of US expansion, dispossession, and detention.” - Christopher Joseph Lee (TSQ) “The biggest strength of Trans Exploits lies in Chen’s deft ability to unite such a range of examples. It is testament to the book’s methodological intervention: trans exploits might thus be seen as a term to capture the different creative and strategic responses to racialized and gendered forms of power, surveillance, and regulation.” - V Varun Chaudhry (GLQ) “Chen deploys trans of color as always in flux, as in relation with others, as a praxis of solidarity, and as refusal of all colonial and capitalist logics. . . . Remarkably, as Chen navigates the vast temporal and spatial frames, without conflating one context/community into another, they carefully historicize and contextualize each contemporary artist and their trans embodiments.” - Nishant Upadhyay (American Quarterly)