Item Details

title

Abolish Cisness: Abolish Stasis

author

Buckner, Eliza Blair

abstract

Nowadays, it seems, trans life is always up for debate. Ricocheting everywhere from casual deliberations in bars to zealous religious sermons, from niche digital enclaves to legislative chambers across the globe—the ‘trans debate’ issues a call and demands a response. Yet, beyond the thinly veiled pretenses offered to drape objections to trans life, the ‘trans debate’ is not actually about keeping bathrooms safe, ensuring equity in sports, resisting medical predation, making prisons non-violent, securing academic freedom, or protecting ‘the’ children. Instead, I argue that the ‘trans debate’ emerges to secure cisness as whiteness as stasis through inventing a public nascently threatened by unnaturally sex/ual Others. I examine moments typically unthought of as debate in order to complicate the way both transness and debate are classically operationalized, producing a way to respond to the ‘trans debate’ without acceding to its terms of rejoinder.

subject

Abolition

Apophasis

Cisness

Debate

Stasis

Transness

contributor

Von Burg, Alessandra (advisor)

Watts, Eric K (committee member)

Atchison, Jarrod (committee member)

date

2024-05-23T08:36:16Z (accessioned)

2024-05-23T08:36:16Z (available)

2024 (issued)

degree

Communication (discipline)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/109432 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis