DIY identities in a DIY scene: trans music events in the UK

Lohman, Kirsty and Pearce, Ruth (2019) DIY identities in a DIY scene: trans music events in the UK In: The Emergence of Trans: Cultures, Politics and Everyday Lives. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781315145815

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Abstract

The past three decades have seen the emergence of an increasingly vigorous and outspoken trans movement in the United Kingdom. Resulting political and social changes have been accompanied by an increasing number of individuals willing to disclose their trans status and be publicly trans. With the development of ‘new modes’ and ‘different codes’ of trans identity and political activism (Whittle, 1998: 393), and an increasingly visible trans population, the stand-alone trans has also come to operate as an organising category for cultural forms. Whereas previous terminologies such as ‘transsexual’, ‘transvestite’ (and perhaps even ‘transgender’) provided more distinct categorical accounts of gender-variant possibility, ‘trans’ is intentionally open and – like ‘queer’ – refuses any clear or coherent definition (Pearce, Steinberg and Moon, 2019). In this chapter, we reflect on what it might mean to ‘do’ trans in a contemporary cultural context, in the tradition of recent accounts of trans music, theatre and performance (see, for instance Halberstam, 2005; Kumpf, 2016; Gossett, Stanley and Burton, 2017; Jaime, 2017; Landry, 2018).

Item Type:	Book Section
Divisions :	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Department of Sociology
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Lohman, Kirsty k.lohman@surrey.ac.uk Pearce, Ruth
Date :	23 July 2019
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Depositing User :	Clive Harris
Date Deposited :	15 Jul 2019 07:45
Last Modified :	15 Jul 2019 07:45
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/852255

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