Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Racial Trans Technologies  1
1. Cultures: Performing Racial Trans Senses  30
2. Networks: TRANScoding Biogenetics and Orgasm in the Transnational Digital Economy  59
3. Memory: The Times and Territories of Trans Women of Color Becoming  75
4. Movement: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Digital Activisms and U.S. Transnational Empire  101
Conclusion. Trans Voice in the House  135
Notes  149
References  157
Index  173

About the Author

Jian Neo Chen is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University.

Reviews

“Trans Exploits is a valuable meditation on unsettling and redefining the relationship between trans of color culture and technologies of representation. . . . This text charts numerous points of entry for any reader interested in the converging histories of US expansion, dispossession, and detention.”
*TSQ*

“The biggest strength of Trans Exploits lies in Chen’s deft ability to unite such a range of examples. It is testament to the book’s methodological intervention: trans exploits might thus be seen as a term to capture the different creative and strategic responses to racialized and gendered forms of power, surveillance, and regulation.”
*GLQ*

“Chen deploys trans of color as always in flux, as in relation with others, as a praxis of solidarity, and as refusal of all colonial and capitalist logics. . . . Remarkably, as Chen navigates the vast temporal and spatial frames, without conflating one context/community into another, they carefully historicize and contextualize each contemporary artist and their trans embodiments.”
*American Quarterly*