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Home / Peitho / Past Issues / Volume 22, Issue 4: Summer 2020

Volume 22, Issue 4: Summer 2020

Peitho cover art 22.4

About this Issue

Editor: GPat Patterson and K.J. Rawson
Cover Art: Jen England

Introduction

Because Trans People Are Speaking: Notes on Our Field’s First Special Issue on Transgender Rhetorics
GPat Patterson
Tags: 22-4, introduction, transgender, transgender rhetoric

Manifestos and Reflections

GET THE FRAC IN! Or, The Fractal Many-festo: A (Trans)(Crip)t¹
Sophia Maier, V. Jo Hsu, Christina V Cedillo, & M. Remi Yergeau
Tags: disabled, fractal, manifesto, many-festo, transgender rhetorics

How Ya Mama’n’em?: Blackness, Nonbinariness, and Radical Subjectivity
Marquis Bey
Tags: Blackness, Language, Nonbinariness, subjectivity

Toward a Trans Sovereignty: Why We Need Indigenous Rhetorics to Decolonize Gender and Sexuality
Rachel Presley
Tags: decolonization, GLBTQ2, transgender rhetorics, Two-Spirit

Shutting Up: Cis Accountability in Trans Writing Studies Research
Joshua Barsczewski
Tags: accountability, ethics, research methods, trans writing studies, writing studies

Articles

Toward Trans Rhetorical Agency: A Critical Analysis of Trans Topics in Rhetoric and Composition and Communication Scholarship
GPat Patterson & Leland G. Spencer
Tags: communication, composition, gender expansive, literature review, nonbinary, research ethics, rhetoric, transgender

“It’s a … [inaudible blood-curdling screams, chaos]!”: Gender Reveal Party Fails as Ideological Rupture
Lore/tta LeMaster
Tags: affect, fail, gender reveal party, racist cisheterosexism, trans monstrosity

Happiness, Biopolitics, and Transmedicine’s Necessary Contradiction: Rhetorics of Normalcy and the Narratives of Gender Transition
D.T. McCormick
Tags: biopolitics, epideictic, narrative, norms, rhetoric of health and medicine, transgender

Pedagogical Approaches

Out in the Classroom: A Transgender Pedagogical Narrative
Lee Hibbard
Tags: Coming Out, Disclosure, identity, pedagogy, queer theory, transgender

Navigating Disclosure in a Critical Trans Pedagogy
Rusty Bartels
Tags: critical trans pedagogy, education, pedagogy, transgender

Recoveries and Reconsiderations

Revisiting Transvestite Sexualities through Anita Bryant in the late 1970s
Morgan DiCesare
Tags: Anita Bryant, Digital Transgender Archive, sexuality, Transvestite

“There is No Question About This and There Never Has Been for Eight Years”: The Public Reception of Christine Jorgensen
N. Claire Jackson
Tags: Christine Jorgensen, cissexism, Digital Transgender Archive, identity, news reports, trans history, trans women, transgender rhetoric

Living and Dying as a Gay Trans Man: Lou Sullivan’s Rhetorical Legacy
K.J. Rawson
Tags: activism, Digital Transgender Archive, gay, Lou Sullivan, psychiatry, transgender

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