BA English Alum Hil Malatino's Audiobook, Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
Congratulations to BA English Alum Hil Malatino on publication of the
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In Side Affects, Malatino opens a new conversation about trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia in order to map the intricate emotional terrain of trans survival. Trans structures of feeling are frequently coded as negative on both sides of transition. Before transition, narratives are framed in terms of childhood trauma and being in the "wrong body." Post transition, trans individuals鈥攅specially trans people of color鈥攁re subject to unrelenting transantagonism. 聽 []
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