This talk will explore the second half of the previously published essay 'How Do Gender Transitions Happen?', exploring in some more depth the role played by S&M practices in the 'community face' of transition. Clearly, sadomasochism has been one means used by trans people (among other queers) to 'recontextualise' and refashion otherwise seemingly immutable...
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Jules Joanne Gleeson
Jules Gleeson is a writer, editor, and stand-up comedian from London, based in Vienna.
She is widely published and most recently co-edited the collection TRANSGENDER MARXISM (Pluto Press, 2021).
For three years (until spring 2021) she ran the LesbiSM Vienna’s monthly action evening, which she’s currently in the process of reviving.
Her historical research has focused on pre-modern gender relations (especially Byzantine eunuchs), and the philosophy of revolutionary thought.