![]() ![]() Drawing on a varied archive of materials, Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. ![]() Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. ![]() Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. ![]()
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