Emma Heaney on cis ideology and the trans feminine allegory Rabbles

In this episode, Emma Heaney talks to us about how sexology made sex cis. We cover the trans feminine allegory, the colonial roots of cisness, the dangers of mystification, and the politics of academic knowledge production.

You can find Emma on Twitter @riislover667 (https://bit.ly/3cL0Coy).

🦋 NAVIGATION 🦋

3:50 — How sexology made sex cis
25:00 — The trans feminine allegory in popular culture
37:30 — The trans feminine allegory in international studies
45:50 — Mystification versus abstraction
56:13 — Materialism Trans Feminism

🦋 FURTHER RESOURCES 🦋

The New Woman (Emma Heaney): https://bit.ly/30Wfs6h
Histories of the Transgender Child (Jules Gill-Peterson): https://bit.ly/3rZPoTs
Gender Underground (Jules Gill-Peterson): https://www.jgillpeterson.com
Black on Both Sides (C. Riley Snorton): https://bit.ly/38QjUYH
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards (Afsaneh Najmabadi): https://bit.ly/3tvcamH
Indian Sex Life (Durba Mitra): https://bit.ly/2OZbozo
With Respect to Sex (Gayatri Reddy): https://bit.ly/38RYSIY
True Sex (Emily Skidmore): https://bit.ly/3cH0wOM
The Trial Path, Impressions of an Indian Childhood and Why I am a Paga (Zitkala-Sa): https://apple.co/3qSHEBD
The Trans*-Ness of Blackness, the Blackness of Trans*-Ness (Marquis Bey): https://bit.ly/3vASakh
Where Black Feminist Thought and Trans* Feminism Meet (Kai M. Green and Marquis Bey): https://bit.ly/3lnWkaI
Thinking Black [Trans] Gender (Cameron Awkward-Rich): https://bit.ly/3bXIGYU
Transgender Marxism: https://bit.ly/3eRZWAG

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