Dedication

Acknowledgements

A Word About Language

Part One - How to (Not) Talk about (Trans) Sex

“What We're Rollin' Around in Bed With”
An Under-privileged Site of Inquiry
A Language of Erotic Aesthetics
Phantasmagorical Pleasures
Down the Rabbit Hole
“Our Right to Mainstream”
“The Only Thing That Makes You Interesting Is Me”
A Geography of the Absent
Undoing Exclusion
“A Very Neat System:” De-Gendering Gayness & De-Sexing Transness
Flattening Identities
Stay in Your Own Yard
New Under the Sun
A Language of Gender Neologisms
The Power of Meaning
Of Crossdressing Elephants
Erotic Privilege
Asexual Identity-Just Not A Sexual identity
The Promise of Ecstasy?

Part Two - Bodies Do Things/Things Done to Bodies

Welcome to “Caveat Hell”
Sex & the Transsexed Body
What Are Emergent Identities Citing?
Weighing Anchors
Born this Way?
Oppression or Enlightenment?
An Intricate & Little-Studied Dance
Erotic Structuralism
“Sweaty Concepts”
Surviving (Re)Embodiment
Fear & Loathing at 5am
Internalized Gazes
Aesthetic Imperialism
Internal Reality Enforcement
Clinging Like Vapor
No Original
The Un/Reality of Bodies
I'll See It When I Get Hot Over It
Toxic Shame and Transnormativity
An Obligation of Abnormality
Surviving Sex
Sensation & Accomplishment
A Field in Exile?

Endnotes