Papers by Sidney Cunningham
Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada
This article situates the Canadian zine series gendertrash between the international political co... more This article situates the Canadian zine series gendertrash between the international political context of early 1990s trans periodicals and its material roots in Toronto’s Church-Wellesley village, while also providing a brief discussion of how its form and distribution relate to contemporary scholarship on the zine as genre. Published cross-promotional materials in a number of influential trans periodicals from Canada and the United States, as well as archived correspondence, demonstrate the ‘zine’s involvement in broader networks of solidarity and resource-sharing – against which the radical politics of this early “gender queer” publication become all the more apparent. The ArQuives’ 2017 gendertrash digital collection promises an expanded sense of trans cultural inheritance yet raises ethical questions around privacy and archival categorizations of identity. This article concludes, building on earlier critiques of similar digitization projects, by positing an affect-based analogy...
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Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada
This article situates the Canadian zine series gendertrash between the international political co... more This article situates the Canadian zine series gendertrash between the international political context of early 1990s trans periodicals and its material roots in Toronto’s Church-Wellesley village, while also providing a brief discussion of how its form and distribution relate to contemporary scholarship on the zine as genre. Published cross-promotional materials in a number of influential trans periodicals from Canada and the United States, as well as archived correspondence, demonstrate the ‘zine’s involvement in broader networks of solidarity and resource-sharing – against which the radical politics of this early “gender queer” publication become all the more apparent. The ArQuives’ 2017 gendertrash digital collection promises an expanded sense of trans cultural inheritance yet raises ethical questions around privacy and archival categorizations of identity. This article concludes, building on earlier critiques of similar digitization projects, by positing an affect-based analogy...
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Jump Cut, 2021
Increased trans representation in mainstream film and television may ultimately fail to disrupt n... more Increased trans representation in mainstream film and television may ultimately fail to disrupt negative stereotypes or produce real political gains, but Disclosure’s (2020) survey of a century of trans images tempers any disappointment with camp pleasure.
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Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 2019
This article situates the Canadian zine series gendertrash between the international political co... more This article situates the Canadian zine series gendertrash between the international political context of early 1990s trans periodicals and its material roots in Toronto’s Church-Wellesley village, while also providing a brief discussion of how its form and distribution relate to contemporary scholarship on the zine as genre. Published cross-promotional materials in a number of influential trans periodicals from Canada and the United States, as well as archived correspondence, demonstrate the ‘zine’s involvement in broader networks of solidarity and resource-sharing – against which the radical politics of this early “gender queer” publication become all the more apparent. The ArQuives’ 2017 gendertrash digital collection promises an expanded sense of trans cultural inheritance yet raises ethical questions around privacy and archival categorizations of identity. This article concludes, building on earlier critiques of similar digitization projects, by positing an affect-based analogy between the role of gendertrash’s subscription/distribution model and that of this recent digital collection.
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Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2018
This essay responds to Slavoj Z ˇ ižek's recent criticism of trans activism by arguing for an und... more This essay responds to Slavoj Z ˇ ižek's recent criticism of trans activism by arguing for an understanding of gendered recognition within the symbolic-social realm that goes beyond acknowledgment and acceptance of diverse gender identities without requiring the presumption of any biological or physical essence of gender. This model is defended through a review of social constructionist and psychoanalytic models of perception and gender attribution, and illustrated through examples drawn from ChaosLife and Eve's Apple—two Web comics by and about transgender people.
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Other by Sidney Cunningham
This short paper is an accompaniment to the Graphic Epyllionizer webcomic/web object hosted here:... more This short paper is an accompaniment to the Graphic Epyllionizer webcomic/web object hosted here: http://sidneycunningham.com/epyllionizer/
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A weird and semi-personal object-oriented ontological exploration of the meal replacement powder ... more A weird and semi-personal object-oriented ontological exploration of the meal replacement powder Soylent.
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