Dreaming Ourselves into Being
The Rhetoric of Trans Comics
Dreaming Ourselves into Being
The Rhetoric of Trans Comics
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Description
Examining the works of ten different transgender comic creators, including Julia Kaye, Mae Dean, and N.D. Stevenson, Zoe Wendler and Jamie Garner show the vital role these comics play in online transgender communities.
Dreaming Ourselves Intro Being: The Rhetoric of Trans Comics explore the ways in which trangender webcomic creators and their readers use the medium to offer guidance on coming out, support during those early months, and hope for a world in which being transgender is far from remarkable. Ultimately, they show how these comics fill the void created by decades of cruel medical gatekeeping and neglect and media representation that reduced the incredible complexity of gender diversity into a binary transness much more palatable to cisgender audiences.
This book is a deeply interdisciplinary autoethnography, bringing together research in rhetoric, medicine, history, psychology, sociology, queer studies, and comic studies to show just how essential transgender webcomics are to the trans artists that create them and the trans people who read them.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: From the Ashes
1. Medical Gatekeeping? Guess I'll Die: Psychology, Medicine, and Realizing Trans Identities
2. Superheroes Say “Trans Rights”: A History of Transgender Comics
3. Wait, it's All Trans? Always Was: Identity, Exigence, and Trans Coming-Out Webcomics
4. Me, Waiting For The Hormones to Kick In: The Rhetoric of the Long, Slow Wait of Transition
5. What if I Told You This Was Happening Everywhere Else Too? Our Story, Told Myriad Ways
References
About the Authors
Index
Product details
| Published | Jan 07 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781978759343 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 36 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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